Harriet Beecher Stowe was thirty-nine when she began Uncle Tom's Cabin. She had given birth to seven children and seen one die.… — Sophy Burnham Copy Share Image
Of course, in a novel, people's hearts break, and they die and that is the end of it; and in a story… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
At this point I feel like I could go out and accomplish anything. I'd just love to see Will Smith's face if… — Zach Braff Copy Share Image
A handful of works in history have had a direct impact on social policy: one or two works of Dickens, some of… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
I did not write it (Uncle Tom's Cabin). God wrote it. I merely did his dictation. — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
However, the daily life of the slaves in the South, as observed by many travelers, was obscured for all time by the… — Eustace Mullins Copy Share Image
For me, Duke was personal. I hated Duke and I hated everything I felt Duke stood for. Schools like Duke didn’t recruit… — Jalen Rose Copy Share Image
I Hated Duke. I Felt Like They Only Recruited Black Players That Were Uncle Toms. — Jalen Rose Copy Share Image
If you read the story of slavery and see the part that the Uncle Tom played in the plantation, and then you… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Today's Uncle Tom doesn't wear a handkerchief on his head. This modern, twentieth-century Uncle Thomas now often wears a top hat. He's… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Just as Uncle Tom, back during slavery used to keep the Negroes from resisting the bloodhound or resisting the Ku Klux Klan… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Among liberals and Democrats, there is this notion that the poor - especially the black poor - can do no wrong. If… — Gregory Kane Copy Share Image
The same thing that Uncle Tom did on the plantation before [Abe] Lincoln issued the so-called Emancipation Proclamation.I have no thinking on… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
[Reviewing a production of Uncle Tom's Cabin] The dogs were poorly supported by the cast. — Don Herold Copy Share Image
You have the upper class Negroes who are the modern day Uncle Toms or the 20th century Uncle Toms. They don't wear… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Jazz is an Uncle Tom word. They should stop using that word for selling. I told George Wein the other day that… — Miles Davis Copy Share Image
[Malcolm X] had said a great deal about nonviolence, criticizing nonviolence, and saying that I approved of Negro men and women being… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Religion! Is what you hear at church religion? Is that which can bend and turn, and descend and ascend, to fit every… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image