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Slavery is what slavery's always been: About one person controlling another person using violence and then exploiting them economically, paying them nothing. That's what…

— Kevin Bales

There has never been a prosecuted case of slavery. There's no criminality to it. So, it was just like, 'It's over,' and thus, because…

— Kenya Barris

You have to start with slavery because those abuses have never been eradicated. You know, people are not living in slums because they voted…

— Amiri Baraka

Slavery wasn't something that grew up in the American South. and black people were not the first to be slaves in America. Before them…

— Lorne Greene

What we are oftentimes reminding people of is the fact that the history of police in the U.S. was that they were slave patrols.…

— Opal Tometi

A slew of federal civil rights legislation protecting the newly freed slaves was passed during the relatively brief but extraordinary period of black advancement…

— Michelle Alexander

Enslaved people worked hard to preserve family ties and maintain kinship networks. They married, even as the law would not recognize their unions, and…

— Jamelle Bouie

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

— Lupita Nyong'o

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

— John Ridley

Many civil rights came about, not when they were passed into law, but because the federal government did what it should and saw them…

— Claire McCaskill

Slavery is the most insane thing... I don't know that we've ever seen in history, but it's got to be close. The idea of…

— Neal Brennan

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

— Paul Mooney