Emerging Quote by Juan Somavia

When people think of slavery, they think of an era from the distant past. Grainy photographs from Civil War times. And yet it goes…

— Lisa Kristine

Every time that a people which has long crouched in slavery and ignorance is moved to its lowest depths there appear monsters and heroes,…

— Alphonse de Lamartine

“It is the people who cannot stand oppression that qualifies to fight today’s modern slavery.”

— Sunday Adelaja

Slavery, racism, sexism, and other forms of bigotry, subordination, and human rights abuse transform and adapt with the times.

— John Prendergast

“This book was written so that we may take heed and remold our story. I am certain that when enough of us become aware…

— John Perkins

There's injustices within our system that we inherited from this time, from slavery, and until we confront our past, we're not going to be…

— Jurnee Smollett-Bell

“The white author, educated by the black nursemaid who also cured his illnesses and accepted his first searching caresses, was the “racial democrat” who…

— Durval Muniz de Albuquerque Jr

I think when a society has such a profoundly dark and awful evil such as slavery in its history, then it leaves scars that…

— Ani DiFranco

It is only with the rise of the Civil Rights Movement that you begin to see different examinations of not only Reconstruction but slavery…

— Gerald Horne

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

— Simón Bolívar

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

For humanity has moved forward to an era when wrong and slavery are being displaced, and reason and justice are being recognized as the…

— Anonymous