Boat Quote by Lonnie Bunch

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

Modern day slavery is the great tragedy of our time and the U.S. cannot turn a blind eye to it on our soil or…

— Mark Meadows

I believe the bicentenary offers us a chance not just to say how profoundly shameful the slave trade was - how we condemn its…

— Tony Blair

Dead white guys built this country. Show some gratitude and show some reverence. But as far as slavery, yeah. It's part of history. And…

— Gavin McInnes

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

“On Slavery: The saddest slap in the face is we have NO monument, no real statues or memorials, no special day of Atonement or…

— Brandi L. Bates

We're the most captive nation of slaves that ever came along. The moral timidity of the average American is quite noticeable. Everybody's afraid to…

— Gore Vidal

There's a really great documentary called 'Many Rivers,' which documents the totality of slavery from its inception, and then it gives you a little…

— Aldis Hodge

“To have a museum chronicling the great crime that was African slavery in the United States of America would be to acknowledge that the…

— Susan Sontag

Slavery is the nagging, unrelenting shame of America that continues to deny the true promise of the country to too many its citizens. If…

— John Hickenlooper

It's a shameful piece of history and I think - I don't mean to be political or sobering or anything - but I think…

— Tamlyn Tomita

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