You don't make a case for reparations thinking, 'Oh yeah, people are gonna love this.' I didn't see that coming. — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
Murder is the unique crime, the only one for which we can never make reparation to the victim. — P. D. James Copy Share Image
Fortunately, in President Obama, the child of an African and an American, we finally have a leader who is uniquely positioned to… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
There is not, perhaps, to a mind well instructed, a more painful occurrence, than the death of one we have injured without… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
No love or pity, pardon or excuse should soften the sharp pang of reparation for the guilty man. — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
To speak evil of any one, unless there is unequivocal proofs of their deserving it, is an injury for which there is… — George Washington Copy Share Image
When people think about reparations, they immediately think about people who've been dead for 100 years. — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
I do think that some form of reparations for the descendants of American slavery would go a long way. — Thomas Chatterton Williams Copy Share Image
The Church and the world have a great need of eucharistic worship. Jesus waits for us in this sacrament of love. Let… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
The round of a passionate man's life is in contracting debts in his passion, which his virtue obliges him to pay. He… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Many in the English-speaking world came to agree with the Germans that the Treaty of Versailles, and the reparations in particular, were… — Margaret MacMillan Copy Share Image
“Reparations could not make up for the murder perpetrated by the Nazis. But they did launch Germany’s reckoning with itself, and perhaps… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
The committee's work is not about whether or how we should pay reparations. That was never the intent nor will the payment… — Ruth J. Simmons Copy Share Image
Welfare states on both sides of the Atlantic have discovered that largesse to losers does not reduce their hostility to society, but… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
America has made no reparation to the Vietnamese, nothing. We are the richest people in the world and they are among the… — Martha Gellhorn Copy Share Image
If you look at countries like South Africa, where you had a black majority, there have been efforts to tax and help… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
In the time just before the bombing of Pearl Harbor, when Perfidia opens, we were pre-psychologized. There were no concepts of identity,… — James Ellroy Copy Share Image
“But while the people advocating reparations have changed over time, the response from the country has remained virtually the same. “They have… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
“Holocaust Theatre (Naskaristana 2799) Most social issues are rooted in religion, most religious issues are rooted in politics, most political issues are… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“The two main criminals are France and the United States. They owe Haiti enormous reparations because of actions going back hundreds of… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
My definition of good is that you understand that this is a question of power. That you be willing to give up… — Sister Souljah Copy Share Image
Virgin Immaculate, perfect lover of Our Lord in the Blessed Sacrament, we ask you to obtain for us the graces we need… — Peter Julian Eymard Copy Share Image
Theoretically, you can make, obviously, a powerful argument that centuries of slavery, Jim Crow, discrimination are the primary cause for all those… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
What I’m talking about is more than recompense for past injustices—more than a handout, a payoff, hush money, or a reluctant bribe.… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
“I was not always a believer in reparations. I’d read TransAfrica founder Randall Robinson’s work on the subject in the late ’90s,… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
“Justice requires not only the ceasing and desisting of injustice but also requires either punishment or reparation for injuries and damages inflicted… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I don't expect everyone to feel the same way that I do about land. For so many of us, the scars are… — J. Drew Lanham Copy Share Image
“Sec. 10. Besides the crime which consists in violating the law, and varying from the right rule of reason, whereby a man… — John Locke Copy Share Image
“For Americans, the hardest part of paying reparations would not be the outlay of money. It would be acknowledging that their most… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
“Churchill was a big fat cannibal, Leopold was an ugly deadly virus, Columbus was a most wanted terrorist.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
The effect of reparations would be among the most devastating the country and the black community have ever experienced. — Jesse Lee Peterson Copy Share Image
The country in which reparations actually happen is a very different one than the one we live in. — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
A [reformed] vampire ... mostly tries to make reparation for his previous evil by doing good deeds-most commonly, apparently, going into the… — Vivian Vande Velde Copy Share Image
Ralph Nader has slavery reparations on his platform, which makes me think he's not serious. If he thought he could win he… — Dave Chappelle Copy Share Image
... there must be reserves -- except with God. The human soul is solitary. But for confession that is different; justice and… — Margaret Deland Copy Share Image
Reparations, I believe, are talked about for political reasons, trying to cater for the purpose of getting votes. If Congress was serious… — J. C. Watts Copy Share Image
And when the relics of humanity left among the Spaniards induced them to forbid their lawyers to set foot in America, what… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
There are real facts in my poems, but facts mixed up in the perverse stubborn stew of imagination, add a pinch or… — Philip Schultz Copy Share Image
The mere fact that you belong to a certain ethnic group makes you eternally guilty, according to the twisted logic of Zionism.… — Ernst Zundel Copy Share Image
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