“It's just like a liberal, they import slaves, they hold slaves, they fight for slavery, they go to war in a civil war to defend slavery. They then install legal discrimination against blacks for a hundred years.” YearsWarFightingHundredSlaverySlaveDiscriminationCivil WarImports Author:Ann Coulter
“It is over one hundred years since the abolition of slavery. The Negro people in the United States have taken plenty and they have reached a stage where they have decided that they are not going to take any more.” PeopleYearsStatesUnitedUnited StatesTakenStageHundredDecidedSlaveryPlentyAbolitionAbolition Of Slavery Author:C. L. R. James
“The last four or five hundred years of European contact with Africa produced a body of literature that presented Africa in a very bad light and Africans in very lurid terms. The reason for this had to do with the need to justify the slave trade and slavery.” NeedsYearsReasonBodyLightLastsLiteratureTermFiveFourHundredSlaveryTradeSlaveContactJustifySlave Trade Author:Chinua Achebe
“It is said that the Negro is ignorant. But why is he ignorant? It comes with ill grace from a man who has put out my eyes to makea parade of my blindness,--to reproach me for my poverty when he has wronged me of my money.... If he is poor, what has become of the money he has been earning for the last two hundred and fifty years? Years ago it was said cotton fights and cotton conquers for American slavery. The Negro helped build up that great cotton power in the South, and in the North his sigh was in the whir of its machinery, and his blood and tears upon the warp and woof of its manufactures.” IfsMenYearsHas BeensSaidTwoEyeLastsFightingPoorPovertyGraceBloodTearsRacismHundredYears AgoSlaverySouthIllIgnorantConquerFiftyEarningBlindnessSighMachineryParadesCottonReproachWrongedWarpAmerican Slavery Author:Frances Harper
“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.” YearsFirstsHas BeensStillsTwoCountryBlackWaterGroupsHundredIndependenceSlaverySlaveSwimmingHaitiSwimming Upstream Author:Michele Montas
“How can a Negro say America is his nation? He was brought here in chains; he was put in slavery an worked like a mule for three hundred years; he was separated from his land, his culture, his God, his language!” YearsAmericaCultureThreeLanguageNationsLandHundredSlaveryChainsMules Author:Malcolm X