Abolishing slavery Quote by Ntozake Shange

Whether permitted to live to witness the abolition of slavery or not, I felt assured that, as I demanded nothing that was not clearly…

— William Lloyd Garrison

I never was an Abolitionest, not even what could be called anti slavery, but I try to judge farely and honestly and it become…

— Ulysses S. Grant

Part of the reason why we're only now reaching a point in American society where we can talk about the need for truth and…

— Bryan Stevenson

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

I know that there is still a lot of bitterness and anger, and arguably justifiably so, when you think about how brutal slavery was…

— David Oyelowo

It is important to honor and remember the millions of individuals who suffered the horrors of slavery.

— Al N. Green

Abolition of slavery had been the deepest desire and the great labor of my life

— Frederick Douglass

There's no dishonor in being forced by a superior power into slavery, but it is an eternal disgrace to voluntarily surrender one's liberty for…

— Charley Reese

“Never forget that for 250 years black people were born into chains—whole generations followed by more generations who knew nothing but chains. You must…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

So enormous, so dreadful, so irremediable did the [slave] trade's wickedness appear that my own mind was completely made up for abolition. Let the…

— William Wilberforce

Harriet Tubman and Sojourner Truth were slaves by birth, freedom fighters by temperament.

— Nancy Gibbs

It was Frederick Douglass, John Brown, Harriet Tubman, Wendell Phillips - these were the people who made abolition real. Now, none of you guys…

— Bill Ayers