Permanent Quote by Julian Bond

We are never really beyond it... slavery continues to this day.

— Lawrence Hill

We can constitutionally extirpate slavery at this time.

— Robert Dale Owen

Coming up in America in the '80s and '90s, we were not too far removed from slavery. People forget that.

— Freddie Gibbs

Slavery takes so many forms, as it is interwoven within legal industries and is embedded into the supply chain.

— David Batstone

Let us take care of our rights and we therein take care of our prosperity. Slavery is ever preceded by sleep

— John Dickinson

We know an organised workforce cannot be enslaved, but when governments fail their citizens and allow corporations to escape the rule of law, slavery…

— Sharan Burrow

God knows I detest slavery but it is an existing evil, and we must endure it and give it such protection as is guaranteed…

— Millard Fillmore

Let there be no compromise on the question of extending slavery. If there be, all our labor is lost, and, ere long, must be…

— Abraham Lincoln

We can constitutionally extirpate slavery at this time. But if we fail to do this, then unless we intend hereafter to violate the Constitution,…

— Anonymous

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

— Lupita Nyong'o

Slavery has become so engrafted into the policy of the Southern States, that it cannot be eradicated without tearing up by the roots their…

— William Loughton Smith

When a man has emerged from slavery, there must be some stage in the progress of his elevation when he takes the rank of…

— Joseph P. Bradley