Abolition Quote by Tony Blair

Part of the reason why we're only now reaching a point in American society where we can talk about the need for truth and…

— Bryan Stevenson

It is important to honor and remember the millions of individuals who suffered the horrors of slavery.

— Al N. Green

I think all Americans need to recognize that, as tragic and horrible as slavery was, as big an economic shadow as it cast, the…

— Lonnie Bunch

When we hear the word 'slavery,' it can be easy to dismiss it as a relic, a crime from the history books, a shameful…

— Penny Mordaunt

We rail at trade, but the historian of the world will see that it was the principle of liberty; that it settled America, and…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Banning the institution of slavery itself long remained only a distant hope in much of Africa and the Middle East, even after it was…

— Thomas Sowell

Slavery is the nagging, unrelenting shame of America that continues to deny the true promise of the country to too many its citizens. If…

— John Hickenlooper

So enormous, so dreadful, so irremediable did the [slave] trade's wickedness appear that my own mind was completely made up for abolition. Let the…

— William Wilberforce

Those of us who always abhorred slavery as an atheistical iniquity, gladly we join in the exulting chorus of humanity over its downfall.

— Herman Melville

I think a commission set up to examine slavery and the consequences of it, would probably be a very fruitful, important dialogue for the…

— Anonymous

I think when a society has such a profoundly dark and awful evil such as slavery in its history, then it leaves scars that…

— Ani DiFranco

It is our collective duty to confront the past, recognize the legacy of slavery, and pay homage to those who suffered from slavery, the…

— Al N. Green