Books Quote by Michelle Alexander

“Slavery by Another Name.”

— Bryan Stevenson

I never thought my book would turn so many people against slavery.

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

If you think your lot in life has been hard read “Up From Slavery” by Booker T. Washington, and you may see how fortunate…

— Napoleon Hill

Slavery is what slavery's always been: About one person controlling another person using violence and then exploiting them economically, paying them nothing. That's what…

— Kevin Bales

“slavery was a worldwide institution, entrenched on every inhabited continent, subjugating people of every color, language, and religion,”

— Thomas Sowell

“American slavery at its beginnings—obscure, distant, and tragic—is probably for most people a less attractive point of focus than the story of the discovery…

— Annette Gordon-Reed

“Aunt Hattie, when you wrote that book, I imagine you were thinking of something radical: the abolition of slavery itself. You were only one…

— Roxana Robinson

“Slavery was a tradition embedded in the culture of the South and played a key economic role there. Its economic importance was the key…

— Andrew P. Napolitano

. . . what a burning shame it is that many of the pieces on the subject of slavery and the slave trade, contained…

— Robert Purvis

“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

“American slavery at its beginnings—obscure, distant, and tragic—is probably for most people a less attractive point of focus than the story of the discovery…

— Annette Gordon-Reed

“My narrative is at an end. I have no comments to make upon the subject of Slavery. Those who read this book may form…

— Solomon Northup