Family Quote by Gerrit Smith

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

— Paul Mooney

You can find justification for slavery in the Bible. Some say this is what the Bible says and that closes the argument.

— Desmond Tutu

However, I am willing to hear what you can produce from Scripture in favor of any kind of slavery.

— Samuel Hopkins

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

I can speak of slavery only so far as it came under my own observation - only so far as I have known and…

— Solomon Northup

The true objection to slavery is not that it is unjust to the inferior but that it corrupts the superior.

— H. G. Wells

Slavery is an abomination and must be loudly proclaimed as such, but I own that I nor any other man has any immediate solution…

— Thomas Jefferson

I can express all my views on the slavery question by quotations from Henry Clay.

— Abraham Lincoln

Slavery is more mental than anything

— Kanye West

I don't think the people of the slave states will ever consider the subject of slavery in its true light till some other argument…

— John Brown

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

— Lupita Nyong'o

“Sex slavery in all forms is an assault on human life.”

— Connilyn Cossette