“In this country, some aristocratic families automatically categorize persons with dark skin, thick lips, and kinky hair as "Barias" [Amharic for slave]... let it be clear to everybody that I shall soon make these ignoramuses stoop and grind corn!” PersonsCountryDarkClearHairSkinsSlaveLipsThickCornGrindStoopsKinkyAristocraticDark SkinKinky Hair Author:Mengistu Haile Mariam
“Most Britons still lived and died without encountering anyone whose skin colour was different from their own. Slaves, in short, did not threaten, at least as far as the British at home were concerned. Bestowing freedom upon them seemed therefore purely an act of humanity and will, an achievement that would be to Great Britain's economic detriment, perhaps, but would have few other domestic consequences.” StillsDifferentHomeWould BeHumanityEconomicAchievementConsequenceConcernedSkinsDiedSlaveBritishColourBritainGreat BritainBritish HistoryBritons Author:Linda Colley
“The sky is dark. But to understand something is to give light. Those who deny liberty to the slaves may have white skins, but their consciences are blacker than the skin of the Negro.” GivingMayLightDarkWhiteLibertySkyConscienceSkinsSlaverySlaveDenyWhite Skin Author:Roman Baldorioty de Castro
“One hundred years ago, the slave was freed. One hundred years later, the Negro remains in bondage to the color of his skin.” YearsColorHundredYears AgoSkinsRemainsSlaveBondage Book:A Time for Action Source: A Time for Action
“I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, sons of former slaves and sons of former slave-owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood. I have a dream that one day, even the state of Mississippi, a state sweltering with the heat of injustice, sweltering with the heat of oppression, will be transformed into a oasis of freedom and justice. I have a dream my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by content of their character. I have a dream today!” ChildrenLittlesStatesCharacterDreamTodayAbleTogetherNationsJusticeFourColorSonOne DayRedSkinsTablesSlaveInjusticeOppressionFormerHillsHeatOwnersBrotherhoodJudgedTransformedGeorgiaMississippiOasisSlave OwnersInjustice And Oppression Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.
“Of course you can more easily recognise the outsiders because they have a different skin color. But let us take for instance the relationship between the White Anglo-Saxon Protestant majority in America and the negroes. What is important here is that the negroes were the descendants from slaves and were excluded from power, while the white majority kept them at bay, kept them down, kept them where they are. If the negroes in the future became assimilated and acquired equal power access, if there were a black president, then many of these things would change.” ImportantDifferentBlackPresidentEqualSkinsSlaveOutsiders Author:Norbert Elias
“The greatest mania of all is passion: and I am a natural slave to passion: the balance between my brain and my soul and my body is as wild and delicate as the skin of a Ming vase.” SoulBodyPassionNaturalBrainBalanceSkinsSlaveMy SoulDelicateManiaVases Book:Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-Crossed Child in the F Source: Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-Crossed Child in the F
“She imagined herself both queen and slave, dominatrix and victim. In her imagination she was making love with men of all skin colors--white, black, yellow--with homosexuals and beggars. She was anyone's, and anyone could do anything to her. She had one, two, three orgasms, one after another. She imagined everything she had never imagined before, and she gave herself to all that was most base and most pure.” MenTwoThreeBlackImaginationWhiteColorPureSkinsVictimSlaveQueensYellowMaking LoveHomosexualBeggarSkin ColorColor White Author:Paulo Coelho
“I have studied humans for a small eternity. Intent infuses their every movement. Road maps to their inner navigation, plastered all over their skin. Born to be slaves.” HumansBornMovementSkinsEternitySlaveMapsBe A SlaveNavigationRoad Maps Book:Burned: Fever Series Source: Burned: Fever Series
“The air of England is too pure for a slave to breathe, and so everyone who breathes it becomes free. Everyone who comes to this island is entitled to the protection of English law, whatever oppression he may have suffered and whatever may be the colour of his skin.” MayWarLawAirPureSkinsEnglandSlaveProtectionBreatheOppressionIslandsColourEntitledEnglish Law Author:William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield