“I've always been interested in history, but they never taught Negro history in the public schools...I don't see how a history of the United States can be written honestly without including the Negro. I didn't [paint] just as a historical thing, but because I believe these things tie up with the Negro today. We don't have a physical slavery, but an economic slavery. If these people, who were so much worse off than the people today, could conquer their slavery, we can certainly do the same thing....I am not a politician. I'm an artist, just trying to do my part to bring this thing about.” PeopleIfsTryingBelieveStatesTodaySchoolArtistI BelieveUnitedUnited StatesWrittenEconomicTaughtPoliticianSlaveryHistoricalPaintIncludingHonestlyConquerTiesPublic SchoolEconomic Slavery Author:Jacob Lawrence
“Thus, if there exists a law which sanctions slavery or monopoly, oppression or robbery, in any form whatever, it must not even be mentioned. For how can it be mentioned without damaging the respect which it inspires? Still further, morality and political economy must be taught from the point of view of this law; from the supposition that it must be a just law merely because it is a law. Another effect of this tragic perversion of the law is that it gives an exaggerated importance to political passions and conflicts, and to politics in general.” IfsGivingStillsFormLawPoliticalPassionPoliticsViewsEconomyEffectsInspireTaughtMoralityConflictImportanceSlaveryPoint Of ViewOppressionTragicMonopolySanctionsExaggeratedPerversionRobberyPolitical EconomySupposition Author:Frederic Bastiat
“The investigation of the rights of the slave has led me to a better understanding of my own. I have found the anti-slavery cause to be ... the school in which human rights are more fully investigated and better understood and taught than in any other.” HumansSchoolFoundCausesUnderstandingMy OwnRightsTaughtUnderstoodSlaverySlaveHuman RightsCivil RightsInvestigationAnti Slavery Author:Angelina Grimke
“Now in regard to trades and other means of livelihood, which ones are to be considered becoming to a gentleman and which ones are vulgar, we have been taught, in general, as follows. First, those means of livelihood are rejected as undesirable which incur people's ill-will, as those of tax-gatherers and usurers. Unbecoming to a gentleman, too, and vulgar are the means of livelihood of all hired workmen whom we pay for mere manual labour, not for artistic skill; for in their case the very wage they receive is a pledge of their slavery.” PeopleFirstsMeanHas BeensPayCasesTaughtBecomingSkillsTaxesRegardSlaveryTradeMereIllArtisticGentlemanLabourRejectedVulgarPledgeManualsLivelihoodWorkmenUndesirableIll WillUnbecomingManual Labour Book:Delphi Complete Works of Cicero (Illustrated) Source: Delphi Complete Works of Cicero (Illustrated)
“In my schoolboy days I had no aversion to slavery. I was not aware there was anything wrong about it. No-one arraigned it in my hearing; the local papers said nothing against it; the local pulpit taught us that God approved it, that it was a holy thing, and that the doubter need only look in the Bible if he wished to settle his mind.” IfsNeedsMindLooksSaidTaughtHolyPaperSlaveryHearingLocalsSettlingPapersApprovedTaught UsAversionPulpitDoubters Book:Mark Twain Himself: A Pictorial Biography Source: Mark Twain Himself: A Pictorial Biography
“The teachings of Elijah Muhammad on how black people have been brainwashed.How they've been taught to love white and hate black, how we've been robbed of our names in slavery.We were robbed of our culture, we were robbed of our true history. So it left us a walking dead man.” PeopleMenHas BeensHateCultureNamesLeftBlackWhiteTeachingTaughtWalkingSlaveryBlack PeopleMuhammadDead ManBrainwashedElijahWalking DeadElijah Muhammad Author:Muhammad Ali
“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
“The Bible, in which these things are taught, favors drunkenness, murder, slavery, lying, stealing and lechery.” LyingAtheismTaughtMurderSlaveryFavorsStealingDrunkennessLechery Author:Charles Chilton Moore
“My grandma always said, "Where there's a will, there's a way." I think it's just naturally in our DNA to be able to survive. We was always taught that: to survive. When you talking about slavery, it's to survive.” ThinkingWaySaidAbleTalkingTaughtSlaveryDnaGrandmaMy Grandma Author:Kendrick Lamar
“Frederick Douglas taught that literacy is the path from slavery to freedom. There are many kinds of slavery and many kinds of freedom, but reading is still the path.” KindStillsReadingPathTaughtSlaveryLiteracyFrederick Douglas Author:Carl Sagan
“America's greatest crime against the black man was not slavery or lynching, but that he was taught to wear a mask of self-hate and self-doubt.” MenSelfAmericaHateBlackDoubtCrimeTaughtSlaveryMaskSelf-doubtLynchingSelf Hate Author:Malcolm X
“Upon the decease [of] my wife, it is my Will and desire th[at] all the Slaves which I hold in [my] own right, shall receive their free[dom] . . . . The Negroes thus bound, are (by their Masters or Mistresses) to be taught to read and write; and to be brought up to some useful occupation, agreeably to the Laws of the Commonwealth of Virginia, providing for the support of Orphan and other poor Children. And I do hereby expressly forbid the Sale, or transportation out of the said Commonwealth, of any Slave I may die possessed of, under any pretence whatsoever.” WritingMayChildrenSaidLawDesireDiesMy OwnPoorSupportWifeTaughtMastersSlaverySlaveBoundsMy WifeOccupationPossessedProvidingMistressTransportationVirginiaOrphanCommonwealthPretencePoor ChildrenDoms Author:George Washington
“In our government-controlled schools we are taught that Lincoln was our greatest president because his war ended slavery and saved the Union. As usual, the other side of the story - the side that reflects poorly on the government - somehow gets lost.” WarStoriesGovernmentSchoolLostSidesPresidentLibertyTaughtSlaveryUnionsLibertarianSavedControlledUsualLibertarianismGreat Libertarian Author:Richard J. Maybury