Civil war Quote by Shaun King

No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.

— Joseph Addison

“It is the people who cannot stand oppression that qualifies to fight today’s modern slavery.”

— Sunday Adelaja

“The prejudice of race appears to be stronger in the states that have abolished slavery than in those where it still exists,”

— Ibram X. Kendi

When a system of oppression has become institutionalized it is unnecessary for individuals to be oppressive.

— Anonymous

You have to start with slavery because those abuses have never been eradicated. You know, people are not living in slums because they voted…

— Amiri Baraka

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

— Paul Mooney

Thus, if there exists a law which sanctions slavery or monopoly, oppression or robbery, in any form whatever, it must not even be mentioned.…

— Frederic Bastiat

When a system of oppression has become institutionaliz ed it is unnecessary for individuals to be oppressive

— Florynce Kennedy

There is - and always will be - the legacy of chattel slavery in this nation, an obsession with racial and gender differences, but…

— Kehinde Wiley

Systemically, there hasn't been an oppression more overt and long-lasting than economic oppression against black people and minorities in this country.

— Kerby Jean-Raymond

It is perfectly clear, in the first place, that the constitution of the United States did not, of itself, create or establish slavery as…

— Lysander Spooner

It really is systematic oppression that is so deeply ingrained into the very fabric of American society... Shedding a light on it, in whatever…

— Jeffrey Bowyer-Chapman