“A nation that will keep people in slavery for 244 years will "thingify" them and make them things. And therefore, they will exploit them and poor people generally economically. And a nation that will exploit economically will have to have foreign investments and everything else, and it will have to use its military might to protect them. All of these problems are tied together. What I'm saying today is that we must go from this convention and say, "America, you must be born again!"” PeopleYearsUseProblemWisdomMightTodayTogetherAmericaPoliticsNationsBornPoorEconomyMilitaryProtectSlaveryInvestmentLiberalismConventionsTiedPoor PeopleExploitsBorn Again Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.
“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.” PeopleThinkingI CanStatesProblemAmericaBlackWhiteIssuesRightsGroupsCrimeDrugEqualOriginalsSlaverySpreadTargetUnemploymentSegregationEqual RightsDissentSuppressionMeasles Book:On call: political essays Source: On call: political essays
“Maybe it's the remnants of my religious upbringing, but I do try and insert a sense of social justice into the work. For instance, to me, Mansfield Park is a story about servitude and slavery. Other people may have a problem with that, but that's how I read the book and so that's how I shot the movie.” PeopleTryingMayBookStoriesProblemSocialReligiousJusticeShotsSocial JusticeSlaveryInstanceParksUpbringingServitudeRemnantsInsertMansfield Park Author:Patricia Rozema
“Our political problem now is, "Can we as a nation continue together permanently - forever - half slave and half free?"” MayProblemTogetherPoliticalNationsHalfSolutionsMercySlaverySlave Author:Abraham Lincoln
“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.” PeopleThinkingShouldSoulProblemCultureNamesBlackConsciousnessTalkingIdentityProductsSlaveryHip HopRapHipsHopsBlack PeopleOne Word Author:KRS-One
“For centuries, faith has helped us overcome problems and helped us work to achieve a more perfect union. It has inspired the many leaders who played a key role in abolishing slavery, protecting civil rights and, hopefully one day, becoming a nation where all life from conception to natural death is protected.” ProblemNationsNaturalPerfectLeaderRolesRightsAchieveCenturyKeysBecomingOne DayOvercomingSlaveryUnionsInspiredCivil RightsHopefullyConceptionProtectedNatural DeathAbolishing Slavery Author:Marco Rubio
“If I can get enough signatures, to present an apology to slavery, I will present it to the President. The House of Representatives has already passed the resolution for the apology, but it has to pass the Senate. I think, in spite of all our problems, I think we're in the right direction.” IfsThinkingI CanEnoughProblemHousePresidentSlaverySpiteResolutionSenateApologyRepresentativesSignaturesRight DirectionHouse Of Representatives Author:Kirk Douglas
“Slavery is an abomination and must be loudly proclaimed as such, but I own that I nor any other man has any immediate solution to the problem.” MenProblemSolutionsSlaveryAbomination Author:Thomas Jefferson
“I would've written this story [Django] if [Barack] Obama were president or if he never existed. For one, I think it's time to tell a story that deals with this subject America has avoided for so long. Most countries have been forced to deal with the atrocities of their past that still affect them to this day. But America has been pretty slippery in the way that it has avoided looking slavery in the eye. I believe that's a problem.” IfsThinkingWayBelieveLongHas BeensStillsCountryStoriesProblemEyeAmericaPastI BelievePresidentDealsWrittenSubjectsSlaveryBarackThis DayAvoidedAtrocitiesSlipperyDjango Author:Quentin Tarantino
“So when I heard that we don't have our names, we don't speak our true Arabic language, we were robbed of Islam, our true religion, and we've been made deaf, dumb, and blind in slavery.And Elijah Muhammad was taught by Allah, who we refer to as God, to teach us the truth that will free us.And when I heard it, I've been free ever since. I have no racial problems, I don't go where I'm not wanted.” MadeProblemWantedNamesSpeakLanguageTeachHeardTaughtSlaveryBlindIslamDumbDeafMuhammadTrue ReligionElijahElijah MuhammadArabic Language Author:Muhammad Ali
“Even when I became cognizant of this societal problem in this country, I asked my father and my mother if they knew anything that had been passed on to them, about slavery, and my father was very reticent about it. He often said, "No, I don't know anything about it, and it was bad, it was awful and it's over and we want to get on with our lives."” IfsKnowsWantSaidCountryProblemMotherFatherOur LivesSlaveryAwfulCognizant Author:David C. Driskell
“Abraham Lincoln would have been happy to have solved the slavery problem by compensation - in fact, drew up a gradual, compensated emancipation plan as early as November, 1861 - but no slaveholders were willing to go along with it.” ProblemSlaveryCompensationNovemberEmancipation Author:Allen C. Guelzo
“There are some really great books that have been written about slavery, but I don't think that the discourse about it in society has been very accurate or healthy. I don't think we've come up with ways to tell it that don't insult people or hit them in the wrong way. Part of the problem is that most people don't really understand what slavery was anyway. Most white people didn't own slaves. Slavery was a way of life, just like driving cars is a way of life now. It doesn't mean that it was right.” PeopleThinkingMeanBookProblemCarHealthySlaverySlaveDrivingInsultReally GreatGreat Book Author:James McBride
“I am very cynical. That is absolutely what police is doing. But you don't even have to be cynical. I mean, politicians don't even pretend they're doing otherwise. The problem is the other side is not screaming bloody murder and saying, you know, "This is immoral, this is slavery, you're profiting from human bondage."” MeanProblemPoliticianMurderPoliceSlaveryCynicalBloodyImmoralBondage Author:Peter Moskos
“The problem for those who assert biblical authority in support of traditional definitions of marriage is that one could, with equal validity, assert that the lending of money or certain kinds of haircuts are forbidden by God, or that slavery and the subjugation of women are authorized by the Lord.” KindProblemCertainLordSupportEqualAuthoritySlaveryDefinitionsTraditionalBiblicalForbiddenValidityHaircutsLendingSubjugation Author:Jon Meacham
“The freedmen were not really free in 1865, nor are most of their descendants really free in 1965. Slavery was but one aspect of a race and color problem that is still far from solution here, or anywhere. In America particularly, the grapes of wrath have not yet yielded all their bitter vintage.” StillsProblemAmericaJusticeRaceColorDiversitySolutionsAspectSocial JusticeSlaveryBitterBitternessWrathGrapesVintageDescendantsRace And Color Book:The Oxford history of the American people Source: The Oxford history of the American people
“The Compromise of 1850 provided that the prohibition of slavery should be left up to the individual States, thus thwarting the Canaanites in their attempts to make this problem an excuse for federal intervention and a cause of war between the States.” ShouldWarStatesProblemIndividualLeftCausesSlaveryExcuseCompromiseCivil WarInterventionProhibitionCauses Of War Author:Eustace Mullins
“Involuntary mental hospitalization is like slavery. Refining the standards for commitment is like prettifying the slave plantations. The problem is not how to improve commitment, but how to abolish it” ProblemStandardsCommitmentSlaverySlavePsychologicalPsychiatryPsychiatristAbolishInvoluntaryRefiningPsychiatricPlantations Author:Thomas Szasz