Rule 3: Just because someone is offended, doesn’t mean…

Just because you're offended, doesn't mean you're right.

— Ricky Gervais

Just because you're offended, doesn't mean you're right. Some people are offended by mixed marriage, gay people, atheism. So what? F*** 'em.

— Ricky Gervais

How should I begin this? I'm just so offended. How am I even mentioned by all these fuckin beginners?

— Jay Z

The true story is that black people need to tell their history. Very few films are made by black people about slavery. That itself…

— Haile Gerima

It states, History should be regarded as a means for understanding the past and solving the challenges of the future. It also suggests that…

— Mark Foley

'Slavery by Another Name' is an important book that I think all Americans should read, about how, following the end of slavery, a new…

— Michelle Alexander

Just because we feel offended doesn't mean we must be offended. Feelings are indicators not dictators.

— Lysa TerKeurst

People have every right to be offended -- but that doesn't mean they get to take away your right to offend.

— Mark Leiren-Young

You pick up very well-known books on Lincoln [and] you will find almost no reference to his long-term belief in colonization. Why? Because it…

— Eric Foner

I think almost everything important that's ever happened was unimaginable shortly before it happened. Good things and bad things: ending slavery, ending child labor,…

— David Swanson

“Correction of past wrongdoings, like ending slavery and dismantling legal segregation, confirmed the rightness of our ideals. Nothing fundamental about those ideals needed to…

— Eddie S. Glaude Jr

Radical thought has inspired many of the great political and social reform movements in American history, from ending slavery to establishing the minimum wage.

— Carl Bernstein

War is worthless except for ending slavery, Nazism, fascism, and communism. Other than that, war is pointless.

— Rush Limbaugh

“Ending feudalism, ending slavery, enacting labor laws, winning universal suffrage, ending Jim Crow laws, overcoming much of the mindset and practice of patriarchy as…

— Michael Albert

Slave rebellions, especially the [1791] Haitian Revolution, had an ongoing effect on the ways in which abolitionists talked about ending slavery.

— Manisha Sinha