Quote by Ottobah Cugoano known as John Stuart

“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

“Elizabeth [Alexander] is right, of course. It’s a stirring fact that our slave ancestors left behind not documents of property but an incredible amount…

— Anonymous

“All that a man has in this world is his own will, the freedom to do what he desires. Taking away that is the…

— Alec Hutson

A man's moral sense must be unusually strong if slavery does not make him a thief.

— Thomas Jefferson

“Ownership breeds slavery: with every single thing that you acquire, comes a new worry of not losing that thing.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“The cruelties of property and privilege are always more ferocious than the revenges of poverty and oppression.”

— C.L.R. James

“Whoever visits some estates there, and witnesses the good-humored indulgence of some masters and mistresses, and the affectionate loyalty of some slaves, might be…

— Solomon Northup

“You see, it is my passionately held belief that the right to possess property is at best a contingent one. When disparities become too…

— Mohsin Hamid

No matter how worthy the cause, it is robbery, theft, and injustice to confiscate the property of one person and give it to another…

— Walter E. Williams

“It is immoral to use private property in order to alleviate the horrible evils that result from the institution of private property. ”

— Oscar Wilde

“Slaves in the past were captured by force; today’s slaves surrender themselves. The masters are the same old folk (who are now more civilized)…

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

“Man cannot be freed by the same injustice that enslaved it.”

— Pierce Brown