Best black & slavery Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Some, while deploring animal abuses, on the same breath approve 'benefits to humans from certain animal abuses'! Who would criticize the Jewish holocaust or Black slavery, and YET praise the benefits to Germans or Whites??? This convenient ambiguity at the expense of animals is unacceptable!!!”

Humans Certain Black Animal Benefits Abuse Praise Breaths Slavery Expenses Criticize Animal Rights Holocaust Ambiguity Convenient Animal Abuse

Author:Adela Popescu

“In the United States of North America, every independent movement of the workers was paralysed so long as slavery disfigured a part of the Republic. Labour cannot emancipate itself in the white skin where in the black it is branded.”

Long States America Black White United United States Movement Skins Independent Slavery Workers Labour Republic North America Branded White Skin

Book:Capital: A Critique of Political Economy - The Process of Capitalist Production

Source: Capital: A Critique of Political Economy - The Process of Capitalist Production

“Frederick Douglas's agenda was an agenda, not for black people to get out of slavery. It was for America to become a better democracy. And it's spilt over for women's rights; it's split over for worker's rights and so forth.”

People America Black Democracy Rights Slavery Workers Agendas Black People Splits Womens Rights Frederick Douglas

Author:Cornel West

“Now I see why reading was illegal for black people during slavery. I discover that I think in words. The more words I know, the more things I can think about. My vocab and thoughts grow together like the stem and petals of a flower. Reading was illegal because if you limit someone's vocab, you limit their thoughts. They can't even think of freedom because they don't have the language to.”

People Ifs Thinking Knows I Can Together Reading Language Grows Black Flower Limits Slavery Illegal Black People Stem Petals

Author:M. K. Asante

“I wanted to touch on how we look on each other. Good hair, light skin, you must be smart; if you're black, you're dark-skinned, you're ugly. That really happens. This is something that started with slavery, when they divided the house, and it's still a part of today's society and things that we battle with.”

Ifs Looks Stills Light Happens Today Wanted House Black Dark Hair Battle Smart Skins Slavery Ugly Divided Being Smart Dark Skinned Good Hair Today's Society

Author:Rapsody

“How ridiculous! You're going to have the first black president apologize for slavery?”

Firsts Black President Slavery Ridiculous Apologizing

Author:Mark Steyn

“When is black America going to forgive white America for slavery?”

America Black White Slavery Forgiving Black America

Author:Mark Steyn

“And yet today, half of all black children are aborted. Far more of the African-American community is being devastated by the policies of today than were being devastated by policies of slavery”

Children Today Black Community Half Policy Slavery African American Devastated All Black

Author:Trent Franks

“In America, you can segregate the people, but the problems will travel. From slavery to equal rights, from state suppression of dissent to crime, drugs and unemployment, I can't think of a supposedly Black issue that hasn't wasted the original Black target group and then spread like measles to outlying white experience.”

Source: On call: political essays

“Ah! the curse of slavery, as the common phrase goes, has fallen not merely on the black but perhaps at this moment still more upon the white, because it has warped his sense of truth and has degraded his moral nature. The position and the treatment of the blacks, however, really improve from year to year; while the whites do not seem to advance in enlightenment.”

Years Stills Moments Seems Black White Common Moral Position Enlightenment Slavery Curse Fallen Phrases Treatment

Book:America of the Fifties: Letters of Fredrika Bremer

Source: America of the Fifties: Letters of Fredrika Bremer

“Slavery didnt break up the black families as much as liberal welfare rules.”

Black Break Slavery Welfare Black Family

Author:Andrew Young

“Black people in America have come from slavery to other forms of being oppressed and there are some things that come with that - some pain and anger that come with that and we as black people have to deal with it to heal that. White people have to understand it and have some compassion toward it.”

People Pain America Form Black White Deals Compassion Slavery Heal Black People Oppressed

Author:Common

“We black women must forgive black men for not protecting us against slavery, racism, white men, our confusion, their doubts. And black men must forgive black women for our own sometimes dubious choices, divided loyalties, and lack of belief in their possibilities. Only when our sons and our daughters know that forgiveness is real, existent, and that those who love them practice it, can they form bonds as men and women that really can save and change our community.”

Source: Saving Our Sons

“I think that hip-hop should be spelled with a capital "H," and as one word. It's the name of our black people culture, and it's the name of our identity and consciousness. I think hip-hop is not a product, but a culture. I think rap is a product, but when hip-hop becomes a product, that's slavery, because you're talking about people's souls. To me, that's the biggest problem.”

People Thinking Should Soul Problem Culture Names Black Consciousness Talking Identity Products Slavery Hip Hop Rap Hips Hops Black People One Word

Author:KRS-One

“Standing to America, bringing home black gold, black ivory, black seed.”

Home America Black Standing Gold Slavery Seeds Ivory

Book:Collected Prose

Source: Collected Prose

“Historian Larry Hise notes in his book Pro-Slavery that ministers 'wrote almost half of all defenses of slavery published in America.' He listed 275 men of the cloth who used the Bible to prove that white people were entitled to own black people as work animals.”

Source: Holy horrors: an illustrated history of religious murder and madness

“Black folks are judged by quantity, not quality. It's a decimal point or figure. How different is that from slavery? There's no moral code, it's just about successful business for America.”

Different America Black Quality Moral Successful Figures Slavery Folks Code Judged Quantity Successful Business Moral Code Decimals

Author:Chuck D

“Black people have slavery. And white people have our own thing-stuff we went though that hurt us that we have to cope with. Like when they took our slaves away. That was really hard for us. So it's pretty even.”

People Hard Funny Stuff Black Hurt White Comedy Slavery Slave Black People

Author:Louis C. K.

“Because of its exceptional capacity for self-criticism, the West took the initiative in abolishing slavery; the calls for abolition did not resonate even in black Africa, where rival African tribes took black prisoners to be sold as slaves in the West.”

Self Black Capacity Criticism Slavery Slave West Prisoner Initiative Tribes Exceptional Rivals Abolition Self Criticism African Tribes Abolishing Slavery

Author:Ibn Warraq

“For two hundred years Haiti has been swimming upstream. We were the first country in which independence was won by a group of slaves - black slaves. Across the water, the country that had just achieved independence - the U.S. - still practiced slavery.”

Years Firsts Has Beens Stills Two Country Black Water Groups Hundred Independence Slavery Slave Swimming Haiti Swimming Upstream

Author:Michele Montas

“Your ancestors dragged these black people from their homes by force; and in the white man's quest for wealth and an easy life they have been ruthlessly suppressed and exploited, degraded into slavery. The modern prejudice against Negroes is the result of the desire to maintain this unworthy condition.”

Source: Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words

“The liberal psyche wants to protect minorities, to apologize for imperialism, colonialism, slavery, and the appalling treatment of black people during the civil rights movement. At the same time, they want to continue to defend the rights of individuals.”

People Want Individual Black Rights Movement Protect Slavery Civil Rights Minorities Treatment Black People Colonialism Apologizing Imperialism Civil Rights Movement

Author:Ayaan Hirsi Ali

“The true story is that black people need to tell their history. Very few films are made by black people about slavery. That itself is a crime because slavery is a very important historical event that has held our people hostage. Forget white people's role in it. In the end what's important is black people remain and live with the scars and psychological issues.”

“I really do not care what the white world is doing. I care about black people building the monument on slavery.”

People World Care Black White Building Slavery Black People I Care Monument

Author:Haile Gerima

“Liberalism and their ideas have done more to kill black folks whom they claim so much to love than the Ku Klux Klan, lynching and slavery and Jim Crow ever did, now that’s a fact.”

Ideas Done Facts Black Claims Slavery Folks Liberalism Crow Jim Crow Lynching Ku Klux Klan

Author:E.W. Jackson

“Only by acknowledging the full extent of slavery's full grip on U.S. Society - its intimate connections to present day wealth and power, the depth of its injury to black Americans, the shocking nearness in time of its true end - can we reconcile the paradoxes of current American life.”

Ends Black Wealth Connections Slavery Depth Currents Intimate Injury Paradox Shocking Reconcile Present Day American Life

Book:Slavery by Another Name: The re-enslavement of black americans from the civil war to World War Two

Source: Slavery by Another Name: The re-enslavement of black americans from the civil war to World War Two

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