“Ham will continue to be servant of servants, as the Lord decreed, until the curse is removed. will the present struggle free the slave? No; but they are now wasting away the black race by thousands.... Treat the slaves kindly and let them live, for Ham must be the servant of servants until the curse is removed. Can you destroy the decrees of the Almighty? You cannot. Yet our Christian brethren think that they are going to overthrow the sentence of the Almighty upon the seed of Ham. They cannot do that, though they may kill them by thousands and tens of thousands.” ThinkingMayChristianBlackRaceLordStruggleTreatsSlaveSentencesSeedsServantCurseCatholicismAlmightyBrethrenDecreeHamBlack Race Author:Brigham Young
“The wise and honorable and Christian thing to do is to treat each black man and each white man (or any person) on his merits as a man, giving him no more and no less than he is worthy to have.” MenGivingPersonsWarChristianBlackWhiteWiseTreatsWorthyMeritThings To DoHonorableWhite Man Author:Theodore Roosevelt
“When the charge first came up, I hated black women. Then, going to trial, I started seeing the black women that was helping me. It's mostly black female guards. They treat me with human respect.” FirstsHumansHelpingBlackSeeingFemaleTreatsTrialsHatedBlack Women Author:Tupac Shakur
“You definitely want your kids to understand their heritage, but I don't want my kids to just focus on being black. They are people. I don't want them to judge other people or to be judged. I want them to be good people, so good people will treat them accordingly. I preach that to my kids and everything else falls into place.” PeopleWantKidsFallBlackFocusJudgingTreatsBe GoodHeritageGood PeopleJudgedFall Into Place Author:Kevin Hart
“The trick generally is to break programs into pieces and have those pieces be individually testable and so then when you move on to the other pieces you treat it as a black box knowing that it either works or doesn't work.” MovingBlackBreakKnowingPiecesProgramTreatsBoxesTricksBlack Boxes Author:Bill Gates
“We can't treat the matter of black economic empowerment as just the redistribution of existing wealth. It really has to focus on new investment, on growth, on development of employment and so on and so on.” MatterBlackGrowthWealthFocusEconomicDevelopmentEmpowermentTreatsInvestmentEmploymentEconomic Empowerment Author:Thabo Mbeki
“I hope you will love your baby. I hope it will be a boy. That husband of yours, I hope, will always treat you well, because otherwise my specter shall come out of him, like black smoke, like a demented giant, and pull him apart nerve by nerve. ... I am thinking of aurochs and angels, the secret of durable pigments, prophetic sonnets, the refuge of art. And this is the only immortality you and I may share, my Lolita.” ThinkingWellsMayArtBlackSecretBoysShareBabyHusbandAngelTreatsSmokeImmortalityGiantsNervesRefugeSonnetPropheticDementedPigment Author:Vladimir Nabokov
“Do you realize how much better the world would be if we all just treated each other the same way black dudes treat magicians?” IfsWorldWayWould BeBlackRealizingTreatsTreatedMagician Author:Aziz Ansari