Ancient Quote by Voltaire

Slavery is ...an atrocious debasement of human nature.

— Benjamin Franklin

Wars in old times were made to get slaves. The modern implement of imposing slavery is debt.

— Ezra Pound

“Slavery is as old as civilization, and has been practiced all over the world. It was ubiquitous in antiquity, and is taken for granted…

— David Livingstone Smith

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

Slavery in West Africa, and in Rome and in the Mediterranean, was something different than slavery in America.

— Edward Ball

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

Slavery is America's original sin and was the great global injustice of that age.

— Chrystia Freeland

I can speak of slavery only so far as it came under my own observation - only so far as I have known and…

— Solomon Northup

Slavery is what slavery's always been: About one person controlling another person using violence and then exploiting them economically, paying them nothing. That's what…

— Kevin Bales

Slavery was regarded by Aristotle as an ordinance of nature, and so probably was it by the slaves themselves in olden time.

— Alfred Marshall

Slavery is something that affects all of us. It's all of our history.

— John Ridley

Slavery is something that is all too often swept under the carpet.

— Lupita Nyong'o