Constitution Quote by Susan Burton

“Convicts had no meaningful legal rights at this time and no effective redress. They were understood, quite literally, to be slaves of the state.…

— Michelle Alexander

Well for one, the 13th amendment to the constitution of the US which abolished slavery - did not abolish slavery for those convicted of…

— Angela Davis

“Even when the 13th Amendment was passed to abolish slavery with an exception of servitude as a penalty for criminal conviction, the introduction of…

— Dumisani Tafadzwa Mayele

“Don’t you know that slavery was outlawed?” “No,” the guard said, “you’re wrong. Slavery was outlawed with the exception of prisons. Slavery is legal…

— Assata Shakur

Every emancipation has in it the seeds of a new slavery, and every truth easily becomes a lie.

— I. F. Stone

We believe slavery was abolished with Abraham Lincoln; unfortunately, human slavery is alive and well.

— Marisol Nichols

The Fourteenth Amendment, after the civil war, in principle brought former slaves into the category of persons, theoretically. But if you actually look, almost…

— Noam Chomsky

“Since 1865, when the [Thirteenth] Amendment was passed, Black men were getting charged, set up, arrested, and convicted for the pettiest of offenses--like child…

— Amy Watkins

Who freed the slaves? To the extent that they were ever u2018freed,' they were freed by the Thirteenth Amendment, which was authored and pressured…

— Lerone Bennett, Jr

No slavery can be abolished without a double emancipation, and the master will benefit by freedom more than the freed-man.

— Thomas Huxley

Slavery can only be abolished by raising the character of thepeople who compose the nation; and that can be done only by showing them…

— Anonymous

Slavery can only be abolished by raising the character of the people who compose the nation; and that can be done only by showing…

— Maria Weston Chapman