Books Quote by Napoleon Hill

If you think your lot has been hard, read 'Up From Slavery' by Booker T. Washington, and you may see how fortunate you have…

— Napoleon Hill

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

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

“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

“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

For years I felt that I wasn't ready to take on slavery. It's a huge topic, and I didn't want to mess it up.

— Colson Whitehead

“You think there’s no detriment in a slave learning to read? There are sad truths in our world, and one is that slaves who…

— Sue Monk Kidd

“There are many kinds of slavery and many kinds of freedom. But reading is still the path.”

— Carl Sagan

“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

“Slavery is bad, but even worse is blind discipleship to hallucinations.”

— Abhijit Naskar

'Slavery by Another Name' is an important book that I think all Americans should read, about how, following the end of slavery, a new…

— Michelle Alexander

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

— Paul Mooney

But really, for me, I tried to find first-person accounts. I tried to read stories from men and women who had survived slavery because…

— Jurnee Smollett