Bible Quote by Sue Monk Kidd

“You think there’s no detriment in a slave learning to read? There are sad truths in our world, and one is that slaves who…

— Sue Monk Kidd

“Two hundred years ago when slavery was going on it was illegal to educate a slave, particularly to teach them to read. Why do…

— Ben Carson

“How can they look in the eyes of a man and make a slave of him and then quote the Bible?”

— Michael Shaara

“But believe it or not, I really do like to read. I don't think anyone can ever pull the wool over your eyes if…

— Brandi L. Bates

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

“Many politicians and preachers defended slavery, citing the Bible’s approval of the practice, the inferiority of the African race, the value of preserving the…

— Steven Pinker

“I don't really understand it. Never have. The more I think on it the more it horrifies me. How can they look in the…

— Michael Shaara

“Just listen to Frederick Douglass, a nineteenth-century slave who taught himself how to read and write, as he expresses his view of how Christian…

— Gregory A. Boyd

“Slavery as a moral issue never interested Ethel. If God had not meant for Africans to be enslaved, they wouldn’t be in chains.”

— Colson Whitehead

“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

“A religious woman is a slave that advocates the slavery.”

— M.F. Moonzajer