John Quincy Adams - Where annual elections end where slavery begins.

John Quincy Adams - “If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.”

John Major - Recovery begins from the darkest moment.

Joy Reid - The persistence of violent white nationalism – these things have deep ugly roots, inextricably tied to slavery and its aftermath. We will be better off unearthing it and airing it out if we

Kevin Bales - Slavery is theft—theft of a life, theft of work, theft of any property or produce, theft even of the children a slave might have borne.

John Adams - It will be celebrated with pomp and parade, bonfires and illuminations from one end of this continent to the other.

Scott Adams - Remember there's no such thing as a small act of kindness. Every act creates a ripple with no logical end.

Maya Angelou - Hold those things that tell your history and protect them. During slavery, who was able to read or write or keep anything? The ability to have somebody to tell your story to is so impor

Alan Keyes - The flag that was the symbol of slavery on the high seas for a long time was not the Confederate battle flag, it was sadly the Stars and Stripes.

John Adams - Our obligations to our country never cease but with our lives.

Barbara Kingsolver - Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work - that goes on, it adds up.

George Washington - I can only say that there is not a man living who wishes more sincerely than I do to see a plan adopted for the abolition of slavery.

Harriet Tubman - Now I’ve been free, I know what a dreadful condition slavery is. I have seen hundreds of escaped slaves, but I never saw one who was willing to go back and be a slave.

John Adams - “Our obligations to our country never cease but with our lives.”

George Orwell - War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.

Abraham Lincoln - I have always hated slavery, I think as much as any Abolitionist.