I think only now am I at the age where I've forgiven the past enough to say, 'You know what? Slavery was there. Let's talk about it in ways that will help us face tomorrow.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
God knows I detest slavery but it is an existing evil, and we must endure it and give it such protection as is guaranteed by the Constitution.
I can speak of slavery only so far as it came under my own observation - only so far as I have known and experienced it in my own person.
If you feel like the beginning of your history is rooted in slavery, that really, I think, messes with your sense of self, your self-esteem, and your self-worth.
When people think of slavery, they think of an era from the distant past. Grainy photographs from Civil War times. And yet it goes on.
If not now, then when? If not you, then who? If we are able to answer these fundamental questions, then perhaps we can wipe away the blot of human slavery.
You got to remember that slavery's very complex. It has a lot of levels to it.
We must continue to judge of slavery by what it is, and not by what you tell us it will, or may be.
In this enlightened age, there are few I believe, but what will acknowledge, that slavery as an institution is a moral & political evil in any country. It is useless to expatiate on its disadvantages.
Slavery is something that is all too often swept under the carpet. The shame doesn't even belong to us, but we still experience it because we're a part of the African race. If it happened to one, it happened to all. We carry that burden.
I have sworn eternal opposition to slavery, and by the blessing of God, I will never go back.