Politics Quote by Ibram X. Kendi

“It has come as a great revelation to me that abolitionist is different from the desire for racial equality. Color prejudice is at the…

— Sue Monk Kidd

“To my way of thinking, the slavery issue is just an excuse to allow some people to do hateful things and feel righteous about…

— Joan Lowery Nixon

“It is easier for people to accept slavery if they realize that they actually have paid for it. - On Slavery.”

— Lamine Pearlheart

“Hard, dangerous, unhealthy work was better performed by slaves than those who were free. Or who thought themselves so.”

— David Baldacci

“Possibly the greatest good requires the existence of a slave class.”

— Virginia Woolf

“Thus the thoughtless drift backward toward slavery.”

— Carter G. Woodson

“For the African race, such as Providence has made it, and where He has placed it in America, slavery was the righteous, the best,…

— Robert Lewis Dabney

“There have been, and may be again, great individual thinkers, in a general atmosphere of mental slavery.”

— John Stuart Mill

“Even though we are peripheral to the slavery, our action is necessary to overcome a horrific evil.”

— Nicholas D. Kristof

“Slavery proved to be a much more complicated issue for American evangelicals both North and South, who discovered that their religious attitudes and interpretations…

— Andrew Himes

“the struggle for an abolitionist democracy is aspiring to create the institutions that will truly allow for a democratic society. What”

— Angela Y. Davis

“Many politicians and preachers defended slavery, citing the Bible’s approval of the practice, the inferiority of the African race, the value of preserving the…

— Steven Pinker