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Right before The Civil War, only 8% of white people owned slaves. Some plantations would have hundreds and hundreds of slaves, but the vast…

— Ann Coulter

Keep on complaining about slavery and that was over 40 to 50 years ago. You know, black folks need to move on.

— Ludacris

But the truth is that throughout human history slavery has existed. And America came along as the first country to end it within 150…

— Katie Pavlich

There's still nearly the same amount of slavery, if not more, in the world today, as there was at the height of the slave…

— Benedict Cumberbatch

“for far longer: Blacks were enslaved in this country for 244 years, from 1619 to 1863. As of 2010, they have been free for 147 years.”

— Isabel Wilkerson

What the white man in America needs to realize is there's a new thinking among black people today which makes them not willing to…

— Malcolm X

One hundred years ago, the slave was freed. One hundred years later, the Negro remains in bondage to the color of his skin.

— Lyndon B. Johnson

Two hundred fifty years of slavery. Ninety years of Jim Crow. Sixty years of separate but equal. Thirty-five years of racist housing policy. Until…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

It is over one hundred years since the abolition of slavery. The Negro people in the United States have taken plenty and they have…

— C. L. R. James

It's modern-day slavery.

— Adrian Peterson

I've been reading about and writing about the Civil War period and it is so striking that slavery was never made right - [Abraham]…

— George Saunders

Slavery is, as an example of what white America has done, a constant reminder of what white America might do.

— Derrick Bell