Quote by Ibram X. Kendi

“Arabs invaded northern Africa in the seventh century, sending black African slaves to Asia and Arab countries. In the Islamic Republic of Mauritania, which…

— Perry Stone

“Slaves were among the main commodities traded during this era, which preceded the era of European territorial conquests in sub-Saharan Africa.”

— Thomas Sowell

“He pointed out that the so-called just wars between Africans were actually instigated by European slave-traders drumming up demand for captives.4 Meanwhile,”

— Ibram X. Kendi

“Um," I asked, "isn't the whole point about being a slave that you don't have a choice to be anything else?" Prettying up the…

— Sarah Vowell

A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.

— Ezra Pound

Nearly all men are slaves for the same reason that the Spartans assigned for the servitude of the Persians -- lack of power to…

— Nicolas Chamfort

“slavery was a worldwide institution, entrenched on every inhabited continent, subjugating people of every color, language, and religion,”

— Thomas Sowell

“Long before the Europeans arrived in Africa, the blacks were enslaving each other. They still do,” said Valmorain. “Just as whites are enslaving each…

— Isabel Allende

“Slavery! It sounds archaic and perhaps even silly, and this word, too, people dared pronounce only in their hidden thoughts. “Slavery — it sounds…

— Melānija Vanaga

“From their arrival around 1619, African people had illegally resisted legal slavery. They had thus been stamped from the beginning as criminals. In”

— Ibram X. Kendi

“Although the First Testament talks about slavery, Middle Eastern slavery was not an inherently oppressive institution like the European slavery accepted under the Roman…

— John E. Goldingay

“Most of the slaves shipped across the Atlantic were purchased, rather than captured, by Europeans.”

— Thomas Sowell