“Movements are not radical. Movements are the American way. A small group of abolitionists writing and speaking eventually led to the end of slavery. A few stirred-up women brought about women's voting. The Populist movement, the Progressive movement, the anti-Vietnam War movement, the women's movement - the examples go on and on of 'little people' getting together and telling the truth about their lives. They made our government act.” PeopleWayWritingLittlesMadeWarEndsGovernmentTogetherGroupsExampleMovementGoes OnSlaveryActivismRadicalVotingTelling The TruthProgressiveVietnamSocial ChangeVietnam WarSmall GroupsPopulistAbolitionistProgressive MovementAnti Vietnam War Author:Unita Blackwell
“I've been reading about and writing about the Civil War period and it is so striking that slavery was never made right - [Abraham] Lincoln was killed, Reconstruction came along, and all of that inequity was frozen in place and carried forward rather smugly. So I think the burden is now upon us white people, to say that this systemic inequality offends us.” PeopleThinkingWritingMadeWarReadingWhitePeriodsSlaveryBurdenInequalityCivil WarFrozenAbrahamReconstruction Author:George Saunders
“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
“My writing is definitely influenced by and speaks to African-Americans because that is who I am. I'm black. I'm a black woman. I'm a black mother, wife, churchgoer, etc. I am the legacy of slavery.” WritingMotherSpeakBlackWifeSlaveryWho I AmAfrican AmericanLegacyEtcBlack Women Author:Michelle Singletary
“Racism in our countries is a fact in that the indian is not allowed to be a politician or aspire to being head of state. It has reached the point that 99% of the indigenous women have not gone to school. The indigenous are condemned to live in a situation designed to exterminate them. They receive a pittance of a salary, they neither speak nor write the language, politics dictates their situation. Is this slavery? I don't know what it's called. It is not the same as before because we are in modern times.” KnowsWritingCountryStatesFactsSchoolSpeakLanguageSituationGoneModernPoliticianRacismSlaveryOur CountryIndianAspireIndigenousSalaryModern TimesHead Of State Author:Rigoberta Menchu
“There are places and spaces for black writers to write about race as a central thing. It's important. We're still dealing with the remnants of slavery. We're still dealing with racism on a daily basis. For me, I choose to write books about black people where we are normal. I was raised to believe that I deserve to be in a room just like anybody else. I try to write books like that.” PeopleWritingTryingBelieveImportantBookBlackRacismDeserveSlaveryBlack People Author:Kwame Alexander
“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
“To make your life being a writer, it's an auto-slavery ... you are both the slave and the task-master.” WritingMastersTasksSlaverySlave Author:Susan Sontag
“Hold those things that tell your history and protect them. During slavery, who was able to read or write or keep anything? The ability to have somebody to tell your story to is so important. It says: 'I was here. I may be sold tomorrow. But you know I was here.'” KnowsWritingMayImportantStoriesAbleAbilityTomorrowProtectSlaveryLife Changing Author:Maya Angelou
“No matter how many red Xs we write on our hands to end slavery, as long as these same hands are clicking on pornographic websites and scrolling through sexual pictures and videos, we are frauds to the core.” WritingLongEndsMatterHandsRedSlaveryCoreVideoFraudWebsiteScrolling Book:Counter Culture: Following Christ in an Anti-Christian Age Source: Counter Culture: Following Christ in an Anti-Christian Age
“In history, she wasn't there while we reenacted the Lincoln-Douglas Debate, and Mr. Lee tried to make me argue the Pro-Slavery side, most likely as punishment for some future liberally minded paper I was bound to write.” WritingSidesPaperSlaveryBoundsArguingDebatePunishmentPro Slavery Author:Kami Garcia
“In a democracy, there will be more complaints but less crisis, in a dictatorship more silence but much more suffering.” InspirationalWritingCountryPhilosophyWisdomGovernmentMotivationalSufferingQuotesFreedomSilenceKnowledgeDemocracyCivilizationSpeechCapitalismVoteCrisisSlaveryTyrannyMovieStoryRepublicDictatorshipRhetoricComplaintsDominationCreative WritingSlogansAmit KalantriAmit Kalantri QuotesPublic SpeakingProverbsElectionsSocial NetworkingBloggingCharactersAmit Kalantri WriterAdageNovel WritingBook WritingEssayScriptAdvertisementBlogMovie DialogueScript WritingCatchphrasesAlliterationsTag LinesScriptwritingCatch LinesSpeechwritingPunchlineAutocracy Book:Wealth of Words Source: Wealth of Words