20th century Quote by Assata Shakur

I escaped from slavery and became a leading abolitionist and speaker.

— Frederick Douglass

I want you to understand that I respect the rights of the poorest and weakest of colored people, oppressed [to deny others their rights…

— John Brown

I ran away from St. Louis, and then I ran away from the United States, because of that terror of discrimination.

— Josephine Baker

I want you to understand that I respect the rights of the poorest and weakest of colored people, oppressed by the slave system, just…

— John Brown

I grew up in a country that was in a civil conflict for most of my childhood and adolescence. I saw violence and lived…

— Winnie Byanyima

Now I've been free, I know what a dreadful condition slavery is. I have seen hundreds of escaped slaves, but I never saw one…

— Harriet Tubman

Flee the country where a lone man holds all power: It is a nation of slaves.

— Simon Bolivar

I ran away from home. I ran away from St. Louis, and then I ran away from the United States of America, because of…

— Josephine Baker

I decided to make a lifetime commitment against social injustices, against inequalities, and that is why I am profoundly from the Left.

— Najat Vallaud-Belkacem

There's something frightening that comes with freedom. And there was something very frightening for a lot of slaves once they were free and were…

— Sterling K. Brown

I'm not a person that really deal in color. I recognize the inequities that certain cultures have to go through. I understand the history…

— Jim Brown

As a kid growing up and seeing so much strife taking place in society, and particularly on Blacks and people of color, I had…

— John Carlos