Athletic Quote by Michael Johnson

All my life I believed I became an athlete through my own determination, but it's impossible to think that being descended from slaves hasn't…

— Michael Johnson

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

— John Ridley

I wasn't trying to work out my own ancestry. I was trying to get people to feel slavery. I was trying to get across…

— Anonymous

Slavery is the first step towards civilization. In order to develop it is necessary that things should be much better for some and much…

— Alexander Herzen

Slavery is ...an atrocious debasement of human nature.

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Paul Mooney

The people made worse off by slavery were those who were enslaved. Their descendants would have been worse off today if born in Africa…

— Thomas Sowell

But when you see personal artifacts relating to - by genealogy at least - a living human being, it was just more impressive to…

— Bob Edwards

I am first-generation American, so I didn't grow up in the South or have any relatives who were slaves. My forefathers were colonized.

— Adina Porter

My parents came from the south. So their ancestors were actually slaves in this country.

— Isaac Wright Jr

The legacy of slavery comes from the sustained political, legal and economic effort to link permanently an entire group of people to poverty -…

— Sarah Churchwell

“In addition, the most reliable and recent studies of African tribal culture demonstrated that slavery was a long-standing custom among the Africans themselves, so…

— Joseph J. Ellis