Attempting Quote by Kara Walker

One of the most tragic things about slavery was the mental enslavement, the way they made us believe that we were worth nothing; and…

— Jurnee Smollett

Women's history is the primary tool for women's emancipation.

— Gerda Lerner

If you think your lot has been hard, read 'Up From Slavery' by Booker T. Washington, and you may see how fortunate you have…

— Napoleon Hill

“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

The slavery of Negroes in the South was not usually a deliberately cruel and oppressive system. It did not mean systematic starvation or murder.

— W. E. B. Du Bois

A slave cannot be freed, save he do it himself. Nor can you enslave a free man; the very most you can do is…

— Robert A. Heinlein

The use of slave women as day workers naturally broke up or made impossible the normal Negro home, and this and the slave code…

— W. E. B. Du Bois

Let me state here and now that the black woman in America can justly be described as a 'slave of a slave.

— Frances M. Beal

“If one truly believes in freedom, how can one welcome the notion of slavery from either traditional masters or temperance-wielding masters disguised as servants?”

— Joshua Emmet

One of the things that always comes up in my writing is the search for freedom, especially in women. I always write about women…

— Isabel Allende

Slavery is such an atrocious debasement of human nature, that its very extirpation, if not performed with solicitous care, may sometimes open a source…

— Benjamin Franklin

“Imagine yourself in Harriet Tubman's shoes. Fighting to be freed from deplorable conditions. Placing one foot in front of the other, putting slavery behind…

— Susie Larson