Abraham Quote by Aberjhani

To see an African-American elected president means that this country is really finally coming full circle from the birth defect of slavery.

— Condoleezza Rice

The same thing that Uncle Tom did on the plantation before [Abe] Lincoln issued the so-called Emancipation Proclamation.I have no thinking on the matter.…

— Malcolm X

Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree came as a…

— Anonymous

Lincoln has accepted America as a biracial society. He's talking about giving at least some black men the right to vote. In the Emancipation…

— Eric Foner

“We invoke the words of Jefferson and Lincoln because they say something about our legacy and our traditions. We do this because we recognize…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

As we celebrate Black History Month, let us remember how far we've come as a nation and honor the lives of patriotic Americans who…

— Byron Donalds

Something about the fact that an African American had, given the long sad history of our country, now become President - that was exhilarating.

— Bill Ayers

“As we celebrate the 150th anniversary of this tragic event in the American past, democracy is no longer being threatened by secession, slavery, or…

— John Fea

“Abraham Lincoln struck off the chains of black Americans, but it was Lyndon Johnson who led them into voting booths, closed democracy’s sacred curtain…

— Robert A. Caro

The story of emancipation, going really back to the founding of the country all the way to the civil war is very much the…

— Jamelle Bouie

I never thought my granny, somebody that was born down South, who witnessed America when it was segregated, would see, in her lifetime, an…

— Nipsey Hussle

Up through and including Lincoln, American politicians nursed a fantasy of repatriating blacks to Africa.

— Ned Sublette