“How it's possible there are more votes than voters? 1+1= 2 and not 8!”
Source: Escaping Communism, It's Like Escaping Hell
“It'll take a lifetime for at least the next ten generations of Americans to make amends for the wrongs done throughout the bigoted history of America.”
Source: Hometown Human: To Live for Soil and Society
“When we talk about the history of America, Black history is American history.”
Source: Hometown Human: To Live for Soil and Society
“In fact, just for the sake of understanding, if we measure the amount of blood and sweat that actually went into the making of America, we’d find that the contributions of the blacks far outweigh the contributions of the whites!”
Source: Hometown Human: To Live for Soil and Society
“I have long left the notion of guessing the mind of God.”
Source: Samuel Adams
“...our Constitution provides a safe and easy method to redress any real grievances....What excuse can there be for forcible opposition to the laws?' -- SAMUEL ADAMS, Letter to the Massachusetts Legislature, January 16, 1795”
Source: For the People, For the Country: Patrick Henry’s Final Political Battle
“Getting history right is pretty much the most important thing a citizen can do in a nation at war with itself--as ours was. And is.”
“We have heard so many different rumors, about different subjects, that we are rather slow to believe anything we don't see. (Money especially.)”
Source: On the Altar of Freedom: A Black Soldier's Civil War Letters from the Front
“The American people, as a nation, knew not what they were fighting for till recently, and many have different opinions now as to the ends and results of the contest. But there is but two results possible, one is slavery and poverty and the other is liberty and prosperity.”
Source: On the Altar of Freedom: A Black Soldier's Civil War Letters from the Front
“The anonymous arsonists of Macon, GA, during the war years managed, at least, to burn down some of their oppressors' buildings. And this sort of action, a kind of attrition of the will to fight, is one of the guerillas' first tasks.”