Years ago Quote by Ben Carson

“You think there’s no detriment in a slave learning to read? There are sad truths in our world, and one is that slaves who…

— Sue Monk Kidd

“If everyone was so keen to Christianize the slaves, why weren’t they taught to read the Bible for themselves?”

— Sue Monk Kidd

Education is the virtue that liberate man from mental slavery

— Shaquille Tomlinson

“There is no slavery but ignorance. Liberty is the child of intelligence.”

— Robert G. Ingersoll

There is a reason it used to be a crime in the Confederate states to teach a slave to read: Literacy is power.

— Matt Taibbi

“To be enslaved then, you needed to be ignorant. To be enslaved today, you need to be knowledgeable.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“It was well understood that if by the teaching of history the white man could be further assured of his superiority and the Negro…

— Carter G. Woodson

“Give a slave slaves, and he will support slavery.”

— Tamerlan Kuzgov

It was unlawful, as well as unsafe, to teach a slave to read.

— Frederick Douglass

“But believe it or not, I really do like to read. I don't think anyone can ever pull the wool over your eyes if…

— Brandi L. Bates

“I know realized that this was how you enslaved a people. You didn't just bring them over in chains from Africa. No, you convinced…

— Victor Villasenor

“Men are stupid and ignorant. That is why they suffer. Instead of thinking, they believe all that they are told, all that they are…

— Gabriel Chevallier