Children Quote by Chancellor Williams

“And, since I had learned that whites were once enslaved as generally as any other race, how did it come about that slavery was…

— Chancellor Williams

“The thing about the black market is, it’s racist. White children make useful slaves, too.”

— M.C. Humphreys

“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

“Enslaved African Americans built the modern United States, and indeed the entire modern world, in ways both obvious and hidden.”

— Edward E. Baptist

“And that great mixture was brought to America in the holds of slave ships. To the north, the south. Their sons and daughters picked…

— Colson Whitehead

“Here was a population, low-class and mostly foreign, hanging always on the verge of starvation, and dependent for its opportunities of life upon the…

— Upton Sinclair

“I can't help but feel that whites always gotta know the answer to everything. It's like they're uncomfortable not being able to categorize things…

— Michele Serros

I can express all my views on the slavery question by quotations from Henry Clay.

— Abraham Lincoln

“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

“What rent do you pay here?" I inquired. "I don’t know,—what is it, Sam?" "All we make," answered Sam. It is a depressing place,—bare,…

— W.E.B. Du Bois

“These negroes aren't asking for no nation. They wanna crawl back on the plantation.”

— Malcolm X

“When a slave rebels, it is nothing much to the people who read about it later. Just thin words on thinner paper worn finer…

— N.K. Jemisin