About Quote by Douglas Wilder

Slavery is nothing to joke about! And the history of this nation's [the USA's] involvement with slavery is nothing to pass off in a…

— Douglas Wilder

“The history of slavery is the history of the United States. It was not peripheral to our founding; it was central to it. It…

— Clint Smith

Do you think it's a good idea to be sarcastic about slavery?

— Angela Rye

Slavery is something that affects all of us. It's all of our history.

— John Ridley

You got to remember that slavery's very complex. It has a lot of levels to it.

— Paul Mooney

Slavery is not African history. Slavery interrupted African history.

— Mutabaruka

Modern day slavery is the great tragedy of our time and the U.S. cannot turn a blind eye to it on our soil or…

— Mark Meadows

I'm so sick and tired of hearing about slavery. You think slavery didn't exist in Africa? Even Indian tribes.

— David Duke

Slavery is something that is all too often swept under the carpet.

— Lupita Nyong'o

Slavery was a violent, brutal, immoral system, and in accurately depicting how it worked, you have to include that, obviously. Or else you are…

— Colson Whitehead

When we hear the word 'slavery,' it can be easy to dismiss it as a relic, a crime from the history books, a shameful…

— Penny Mordaunt

I dont think the people of the slave states will ever consider the subject of slavery in its true light till some other argument…

— John Brown