Belief Quote by Samuel Adams

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

Slavery was not a bad day on the job. It was not your boss yelling at you. It was not hard work for little…

— John Ridley

Was it not enough punishment and suffering in history that we were uprooted and made helpless slaves not only in new colonial outposts but…

— Robert Mugabe

I can speak of slavery only so far as it came under my own observation - only so far as I have known and…

— Solomon Northup

In my schoolboy days I had no aversion to slavery. I was not aware there was anything wrong about it. No-one arraigned it in…

— Mark Twain

Slavery is more mental than anything

— Kanye West

Keep on complaining about slavery and that was over 40 to 50 years ago. You know, black folks need to move on.

— Ludacris

Look at the American history of slavery. Can you say that hundreds of years later that has been eased? That pain has not yet…

— Anohni

Slavery was one of the worst crimes against humanity and endured by those who built our great nation.

— Al N. Green

To some extent I liken slavery to death.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Talk of the abuses of slavery! Humbug! The thing itself is the essence of all abuse!

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

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

— Paul Mooney