African american Quote by Ben H. Winters

We must never forget the atrocities of slavery as we continue to work towards equality.

— Al N. Green

Slavery is a memory of something we cannot remember, and yet we cannot forget.

— Bill T. Jones

Blacks in America want to forget about slavery - the stigma, the shame. If you can't be who you are, who can you be?…

— August Wilson

Slavery is something that is all too often swept under the carpet. The shame doesn't even belong to us, but we still experience it…

— Lupita Nyong'o

The thing people have to remember is there's nothing natural about racism as it exists in America. I mean, we know this historically. We…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

It is true that as people, we tend to remember only the positive. With time, the grim details fade away, and as a species…

— Colman Domingo

There's injustices within our system that we inherited from this time, from slavery, and until we confront our past, we're not going to be…

— Jurnee Smollett-Bell

Coming up in America in the '80s and '90s, we were not too far removed from slavery. People forget that.

— Freddie Gibbs

We have inherited a fear of memories of slavery. It is as if to remember and acknowledge slavery would amount to our being consumed…

— Angela Davis

Slavery is the nagging, unrelenting shame of America that continues to deny the true promise of the country to too many its citizens. If…

— John Hickenlooper

It is just not something we need to forget easily, to just bend the knee, to put on our t-shirts, Black Lives Matter, and…

— Abdoulaye Doucoure

I think in this phase, after the Negro emerges in and from the desegregated society, then a great deal of time must be spent…

— Martin Luther King, Jr