Civil Quote by Lisa Kristine

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

I know that there is still a lot of bitterness and anger, and arguably justifiably so, when you think about how brutal slavery was…

— David Oyelowo

When we hear the word 'slavery,' it can be easy to dismiss it as a relic, a crime from the history books, a shameful…

— Penny Mordaunt

Slavery is also as ancient as war, and war as human nature.

— Voltaire

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

— Freddie Gibbs

Slavery is a memory of something we cannot remember, and yet we cannot forget.

— Bill T. Jones

“The history of slavery is the history of the United States. It was not peripheral to our founding; it was central to it. It…

— Clint Smith

It's modern-day slavery.

— Adrian Peterson

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

— John Ridley

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

— Lupita Nyong'o

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

— Paul Mooney

Slavery exists. It is black in the South, and white in the North.

— Andrew Johnson