Being black, I'm involved in the reparations movement. It's focused toward the African-American audience. We could begin to heal. — Cassandra Wilson Copy Share Image
The families of the killed and disappeared are entitled to the right to know what happened to their loved ones, and to… — Alfred-Maurice de Zayas 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
If we had intellectual vigour enough to ascend from effects to causes, we would explain political, economical and social phenomena less by… — Fulton J. Sheen 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
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
... 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
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
Our crimes, for which we are responsible: as taxpayers, for failing to provide massive reparations, for granting refuge and immunity to the… — Noam Chomsky 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
Take Germany and Japan, both defeated in the Second World War. Germany has acknowledged its monstrous crimes to a certain extent, has… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
It is true that Mr. Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, after which there was a commitment to give 40 acres and a… — Al Sharpton Copy Share Image
Libertarianism is the simple morality we learned as children: Don’t strike first, don’t steal or cheat, keep your promises. If you inadvertently… — Mary Ruwart 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
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
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
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
“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
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
Internationally, I propose the radical step of not trying to solve complex political problems with 1,000lb bombs; domestically, I propose they start… — Frankie Boyle 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
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
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
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
That was the principle of reparations to which President Truman agreed at Potsdam. And the United States will not agree to the… — James F. Byrnes Copy Share Image
I starred in a Broadway play that was Sidney Poitier's first directing job and the cast was Lou Gossett, Cicely Tyson, Diana… — David Steinberg Copy Share Image
Trials and tribulations offer us a chance to make reparation for our past faults and sins. On such occasions the Lord comes… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Five million Palestinians have not had a home for 60 years. It is amazing really: You have been paying reparations for the… — Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Copy Share Image
The question is whether NGOs that bring protection or aid or reparation therapies are furthering the possibility of self-determination or extending a… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
Forget reparations - we need to rescue aspects of black culture abandoned even by black folks, whether it is the blues or… — Kevin Young Copy Share Image
“If you steal from the thieves, can they call the cops! If you heist from the blackmarket, is it really a crime!… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
For anyone who has ever asked why the U.S. needs to address the issue of reparations for its history of slavery, Donald… — Frankie Boyle Copy Share Image
The great question of the seventies is, shall we surrender to our surroundings, or shall we make our peace with nature and… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
The conditions that we are suffering force us to address the real issues that affect the life and well-being of the majority… — Louis Farrakhan Copy Share Image
Are you making no progress in prayer? Then you need only offer God the prayers which the Savior has poured out for… — Margaret Mary Alacoque Copy Share Image
Does that mean that all vestiges of past discrimination would be eliminated, that the income gap or the wealth gap or the… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
What Obama is about, in my opinion, is he is a Global redistributionist. He's pursuing reparations but it's not racial reparations. It's… — Dinesh D'Souza Copy Share Image
![“Does that mean that all vestiges of past discrimination would be eliminated, that the income gap or the wealth gap or the education gap [between Afro-Americans and white] would be erased in five years or 10 years? Probably not, and so this is obviously a discussion we've had before when you talk…” quote by Barack Obama](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f2f/barack-obama-17_afros_does-that-mean-that-all-vestiges-of-past_2526100.jpg)
