Colonialism Quote by Shelby Steele

The great evil of American slavery was involuntary servitude or forced labor. I really believe that the true evil of American slavery was the…

— Bryan Stevenson

The people made worse off by slavery were those who were enslaved. Their descendants would have been worse off today if born in Africa…

— Thomas Sowell

Slavery is such an atrocious debasement of human nature, that its very extirpation, if not performed with solicitous care, may sometimes open a source…

— Benjamin Franklin

Colonialism is the cousin of slavery.

— Chadwick Boseman

Slavery's crime against humanity did not begin when one people defeated and enslaved its enemies (though of course this was bad enough), but when…

— Hannah Arendt

Racism, xenophobia and unfair discrimination have spawned slavery, when human beings have bought and sold and owned and branded fellow human beings as if…

— Desmond Tutu

Slavery is the first step towards civilization. In order to develop it is necessary that things should be much better for some and much…

— Alexander Herzen

The abolition of domestic slavery is the great object of desire in those colonies, where it was unhappily introduced in their infant state.

— Thomas Jefferson

Hatred, slavery's inevitable aftermath.

— Jose Marti

“Slavery's fundamental offense against human rights was not that it took liberty away (which can happen in many other situations), but that it excluded…

— Hannah Arendt

Negro slavery is an evil of colossal magnitude.

— John Adams

...the evil system of colonialism and imperialism arose and throve with the enslavement of Negroes and the trade in Negroes, and it will surely…

— Mao Zedong