Lupita Nyong'o Quotes

Slavery exists. It is black in the South, and white in the North.

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

Slavery is right, just, and lawful and consequently practiced every day.

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

Child slavery is a crime against humanity. Humanity itself is at stake here. A lot of work still remains, but I will see the end of child labor in my lifetime.

If you look at slavery across all human history, and you sort of strip away the packaging, whether it's racialized or religious-based, and you look at the actual core of the slavery, it's one person completely controlling another one.

The secrets of slavery are concealed like those of the Inquisition.

Slavery was not a bad day on the job. It was not your boss yelling at you. It was not hard work for little pay. This was a full system of human subjugation.

Slavery is a weed that grows on every soil.

Slavery is nothing to joke about. The history of this nation's involvement with slavery is nothing to pass off in a joke.

This is about slavery.

Slavery is the cause of treason and sustains it everywhere it exists.

[Describing slavery:] ... a cruel war against human nature itself.

[Describing slavery:] ... a sad blot on our free country.

Every slave is a stolen man.

The end of slavery is the profit of the master …. The slave is doomed to toil, that others may reap the fruits.

Can the pleasure of sweetening our tea with sugar grown by slaves make up for all the misery produced among our fellow creatures, the butchery of the human species by this detestable traffic in the bodies and souls of men?

Georgia would become an oppressive regime, promoting the misery of thousands in Africa by permitting a free people to be sold into perpetual Slavery.

I think slavery is the next thing to hell. If a person would send another into bondage, he would, it appears to me, be bad enough to send him into hell if he could.

I think enslavement has evolved to what may seem appropriate to this day's generation. Modern enslavement is imprisonment.

These poor wretches were stolen from their homes, carried to a strange country, and sold to servitude, from which they sought to escape on the first occasion which offered.

Slavery is malignantly aristocratic.

Slavery is a wrong to each individual enslaved; and not merely to the first of a series. Natural law, therefore, as much forbids the enslaving of the child, as if the wrong of enslaving the parent had never been perpetrated.

The poor North has much to do with slavery. It staggers under its load and smarts under its lash.

I need say no more, to prove that slavery is entirely unlike the servitude in the patriarchal families.