“This is what I hold against slavery. May come a time when I forgive - cause I don't think I'm set up to forget - the beatings, the selling, the killings, but I don't think I ever forgive the ignorance they kept us in.” ThinkingMayCausesForgetIgnoranceSlaveryForgivingKillingSelling Author:Sherley Anne Williams
“Men are not only prone to forget benefits; they even hate those who have obliged them, and cease to hate those who have injured them. The necessity of revenging an injury, or of recompensing a benefit seems a slavery to which they are unwilling to submit.” MenSeemsHateForgetBenefitsSlaveryCeaseInjurySubmitObligedInjuredUnwillingBenevolence Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld
“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.” PeopleNeedsMadeImportantEndsStoriesFilmBlackWhiteForgetRolesIssuesEventsCrimeSlaveryHistoricalPsychologicalBlack PeopleScarWhat's ImportantTrue StoryHostageHistorical Events Author:Haile Gerima
“It is only with the rise of the Civil Rights Movement that you begin to see different examinations of not only Reconstruction but slavery itself, and there is a lesson to be drawn here about how the times influence the writing of history, something that we should never forget.” ShouldWritingDifferentForgetRightsInfluenceMovementLessonsSlaveryCivil RightsNever ForgetExaminationCivil Rights MovementReconstruction Author:Gerald Horne
“We forget the conditions - not only in slavery - but after slavery, when there was this purposeful locking out of African Americans from economic opportunity. Or we forget today's incarceration rates, and educational and housing discrimination; all of these things. We pretend that everything that has happened happened long ago, and then we act as if we all now just treat each other equally, everything will be fine.” LongOpportunityForgetEconomicSlaveryRateEducationalDiscriminationAfrican AmericanIncarceration Author:Ben H. Winters
“What we forget is that African Americans made the largest contribution to America, economically, before the Civil War of any sector of society. I read that the railroads were worth about $2 billion, but slavery was a $3 billion asset.” MadeWarAmericaForgetSlaveryBillionsAfrican AmericanCivil WarContributionAssetsRailroads Author:Andrew Young
“A life that stood out as a gospel of self-forgetting service. He could have added fortune to fame but caring for neither he found happiness and honor in being helpful to the world. The centre of his world was the south where he was born in slavery some 79 years ago and where he did his work as a creative scientist.” WorldYearsSelfScienceFoundBornForgetCreativeBirthHonorFameResearchYears AgoScientistSlaveryFortuneSouthCaringHelpfulCentreFound Happiness Author:George Washington Carver
“Slavery is a memory of something we cannot remember, and yet we cannot forget.” RememberMemoriesForgetSlavery Author:Bill T. Jones