Slavery In The United States Quotes
Slavery In The United States Quote of the day
An institution rooted in slavery cannot be the voice of our people.
To celebrate freedom and democracy while forgetting American's origins in a slavery economy is patriotism à la carte.
Maybe he wouldn't end up the kind of man who needed to use his body for work. Maybe he'd be a new kind of black man altogether, one who got to use his mind.
Who talks most about freedom and equality? Is it not those who hold the bill of rights in one hand and a whip for affrighted slaves in the other?
The popular mocking of reparations as a harebrained scheme authored by wild-eyed lefties and intellectually unserious black nationalists is fear masquerading as laughter.
Jeems was their body servant and, like the dogs, accompanied them everywhere. He had been their childhood playmate and had been given to the twins for their own on their tenth birthday.
In the years preceding the Civil War in America, Christian ministers wrote nearly half of all defenses of slavery.
Mistakes from our collective past are like any other: they require intervention--a remedy--to correct. They don't erase themselves over time.
There are people who think they can dance out of slavery. “I’m going to do escapist drugs and hop from one party or festival to another. I will dance my out of the harsh realities of Planet Earth
They were erected purposefully to send a strong message to all who walked in their shadows about who was still in charge in this city.