Education Quote by Carter G. Woodson

“It was a grand opportunity for the low whites, who had no negroes of their own to scourge. They exulted in such a chance…

— Harriet Ann Jacobs

“its foundations are laid, its corner-stone rests, upon the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery subordination…

— Lance T. Stewart

“It reminded me of a time thirteen centuries away, when the "poor whites" of our South who were always despised and frequently insulted by…

— Mark Twain

“the long and bitter political struggle in which he had engaged against slavery had not prepared Mr. Douglass to take up the equally difficult…

— Booker T. Washington

“The abolition of slavery, apart from preservation of the Union, was the most important result of our Civil War. But the transition was badly…

— William Silverman

“It has come as a great revelation to me that abolitionist is different from the desire for racial equality. Color prejudice is at the…

— Sue Monk Kidd

“let them behold him scourged, hunted, trampled on, and they will come back with another story in their mouths. Let them know the heart…

— Solomon Northup

No defender of slavery, I concede that it has its benevolent aspects in lifting the Negro from savagery and helping prepare him for that…

— Thomas Jefferson

“By the middle of the eighteenth century the black slave had sunk, with hushed murmurs, to his place at the bottom of a new…

— W.E.B. Du Bois

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

— Tamerlan Kuzgov

“The man who does not do his own thinking is a slave, and is a traitor to himself and to his fellowmen.”

— Robert Ingersoll

“Man cannot be freed by the same injustice that enslaved it.”

— Pierce Brown