Politics Quote by Steven Pinker

“The slavery debate alerts us to self-justifying tendencies at work in how we use the Bible. Whenever our interpretation leads to injustice, oppression, or…

— Alice Mathews

The Bible is a radically pro-slavery document. Slave owners waved Bibles over their heads in the Civil War and justified it.

— Dan Savage

The Bible is a radically pro-slavery document. Slave owners waved Bibles over their heads during the Civil War and justified it.

— Dan Savage

“Slavery proved to be a much more complicated issue for American evangelicals both North and South, who discovered that their religious attitudes and interpretations…

— Andrew Himes

“For the African race, such as Providence has made it, and where He has placed it in America, slavery was the righteous, the best,…

— Robert Lewis Dabney

“In the years preceding the Civil War in America, Christian ministers wrote nearly half of all defenses of slavery.”

— Rachel Held Evans

“Slavery is simply a possession of the mind, before the individual submits their spiritual component to the will of another person or deity.”

— Mwanandeke Kindembo

“Perhaps it was not really possible for slavery to die peacefully and quietly, while everyone waited hat in hand for the mills of God…

— Bruce Catton

“To my way of thinking, the slavery issue is just an excuse to allow some people to do hateful things and feel righteous about…

— Joan Lowery Nixon

You can find justification for slavery in the Bible. Some say this is what the Bible says and that closes the argument.

— Desmond Tutu

“Slave masters thought they were making a difference in black people’s lives too. Saving them from their “wild African ways.”

— Angie Thomas

“I assert most unhesitatingly, that the religion of the south is a mere covering for the most horrid crimes, - a justifier of the…

— Frederick Douglass