“As soon as slavery fired upon the flag it was felt, we all felt, even those who did not object to slaves, that slavery must be destroyed. We felt that it was a stain to the Union that men should be bought and sold like cattle.” MenShouldFeltObjectsSlaveryUnionsSlaveDestroyedFlagsStainsCattle Author:Ulysses S. Grant
“Of course slavery and the Muslims were deeply implicated in the slave trade, Islam was an Imperialist religion which destroyed Christianity in the Near East, yet nobody mentions those facts.” FactsCoursesChristianitySlaveryTradeSlaveIslamEastDestroyedSlave Trade Author:Ibn Warraq
“That's one of the beauties, I think, of African American life. There was this thing called slavery and adjustments were made. It literally destroyed millions, but it didn't destroy everybody and it didn't destroy the inner lives of all the people who experienced it.” PeopleThinkingMadeMillionsSlaveryDestroyedMade ItAfrican AmericanAdjustmentInner LifeAmerican Life Author:John Edgar Wideman
“The real names of our people were destroyed during slavery. The last name of my forefathers was taken from them when they were brought to America and made slaves, and then the name of the slave master was given, which we refuse, we reject that name today and refuse it. I never acknowledge it whatsoever.” PeopleMadeRealTodayLastsAmericaNamesGivenTakenMastersSlaverySlaveRefuseDestroyedAcknowledgeRejectsForefathers Author:Malcolm X
“Nothing could be more jolting and discordant with the vision of today's intellectuals than the fact that it was businessmen, devout religious leaders and Western imperialists who together destroyed slavery around the world. And if it doesn't fit their vision, it is the same to them as if it never happened.” IfsWorldFactsTodayTogetherReligiousLeaderVisionHappenedFitSlaveryWesternDestroyedAround The WorldBusinessmanReligious Leaders Author:Thomas Sowell
“It is manifestly vital to the success of the anti-slavery cause, that the authority and influence of proslavery, especially of slaveholding, ministers should be destroyed.” ShouldSuccessCausesInfluenceAuthoritySlaveryDestroyedMinistersAnti Slavery Author:Gerrit Smith
“I have lived among negroes, all my life, and I am for this Government with slavery under the Constitution as it is. I am for the Government of my fathers with negroes. I am for it without negroes. Before I would see this Government destroyed I would send every negro back to Africa, disintegrated and blotted out of space” GovernmentFatherSpaceConstitutionSlaveryDestroyed Author:Andrew Johnson