Slavery Quote by Michael Bray

“They talked about each others’ houses, and characters, and families--just as the Joneses do about the Smiths.”

— William Makepeace Thackeray

“Houses had the meanest set of white people in them. Pretty in their living but nasty in their ways.”

— Sarah E Wright

“Slave masters thought they were making a difference in black people’s lives too. Saving them from their “wild African ways.”

— Angie Thomas

“He led the way past the main house away from the slave cabins and other buildings, away from the small slave children who chased…

— Octavia E. Butler

“Perhaps I should have been a Negro. I suspect I would have been a rather large and terrifying one, continually pressing my ample thigh…

— John Kennedy Toole

“The oth­ers went up­stairs, a slow unwilling pro­ces­sion. If this had been an old house, with creak­ing wood, and dark shad­ows, and heav­ily pan­elled…

— Agatha Christie

“The whites were right to be afraid. One day the system would collapse in blood. An insurrection of one. She smiled for a moment,…

— Colson Whitehead

“That last afternoon in Henry's hotel room was for me like a white-hot furnace. Before, I had only white heat of the mind and…

— Anaïs Nin

“Slavery as we know today is about the mind not the body.”

— Rabbi Gabriel Cousins

“I did not lie awake at night worrying about the problems of Negroes.”

— Robert F. Kennedy

“The house is eerily quiet. All this time I thought silence would be a welcome reprieve, but it's less comforting than I imagined. The…

— Hannah Harrington

“Enslaved African Americans built the modern United States, and indeed the entire modern world, in ways both obvious and hidden.”

— Edward E. Baptist