Discipline Quote by Howard Zinn

“When people think of slavery, they think of whips, chains and neurological implants. While these things may be necessary, the real tools of a…

— Kalin Ringkvist

“Slavery is as much about the psychological control of the master over the slave as of the physical domination, cruelty and exploitation which we…

— Gabrielle Palmer

“By the middle of the eighteenth century the black slave had sunk, with hushed murmurs, to his place at the bottom of a new…

— W.E.B. Du Bois

The Negro enslaved by his inferiority, the white man enslaved by his superiority alike behave in accordance with a neurotic orientation.

— Frantz Fanon

The blacks of this region are a cheerful, careless, dirty, race, not hard worked, and in many respects indulgently treated. It is of course…

— William C. Bryant

“A slave was the property of his or her master as were all the women in his family, and it was argued that both…

— Gabrielle Palmer

It's always intrigued me that amidst the group called slaves there were individuals who were extremely able, who were extremely colorful, who were powerful…

— Alex Haley

“The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part,…

— Thomas Jefferson

“In trying to make the slave experience intimate, I hoped the sense of things being both under control and out of control would be…

— Toni Morrison

“African slavery lacked two elements that made American slavery the most cruel form of slavery in history: the frenzy for limitless profit that comes…

— Howard Zinn

“Slavery is the daughter of darkness: an ignorant people is a blind instrument of its own destruction”

— Simón Bolívar

“The vitality associated with blackness might cancel out the vulnerability associated with femininity in the search for a field hand, while a "bright disposition"…

— Walter Johnson