Time Quote by Octavia E. Butler

“I couldn’t let her come back whole and that, I think, really symbolizes her not coming back whole. Antebellum slavery didn’t leave people quite…

— Octavia E. Butler

“A person can be removed from slavery in an instant, but it takes a lifetime for slavery to be removed from a person.”

— Lecrae Moore

“Once he had told her something that she could not imagine: that amputees suffer pains, cramps, itches, in the leg that is no longer…

— Gabriel García Márquez

“How can you ask us to go back to our parlors?” I said, rising to my feet. “To turn our backs on ourselves and…

— Sue Monk Kidd

The sin of slavery is one of which it may be said that without the shedding of blood there is no remission.

— James A. Garfield

“How to undo slavery's injury to the mental faculties–so many freed men continued to be enslaved by the horrors they'd endured.”

— Colson Whitehead

...This fear was unbearable. It unwrapped who she was, as neatly as he'd unwound her bandage, leaving too much pain and ugliness exposed. Nerve…

— Kristin Hannah

“He had heard that people who had the toes chopped off one foot could not stand up, but fell over constantly until they learned…

— Ken Follett

“The abolition of slavery, apart from preservation of the Union, was the most important result of our Civil War. But the transition was badly…

— William Silverman

“Jo claimed that the reason people survived breakups was that within days of the amputation, Mother Nature started reminding you of what you had…

— Emma Donoghue

“Imagine yourself in Harriet Tubman's shoes. Fighting to be freed from deplorable conditions. Placing one foot in front of the other, putting slavery behind…

— Susie Larson

“They may be convenient slaves, but slavery will have its constant effect, degrading the master and the abject dependent.”

— Mary Wollstonecraft