Black history Quote by Colson Whitehead

“It was a magnificent operation, from seed to bale, but not one of them could be prideful of their labor. It had been stolen…

— 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

“Slavery is an element of the human heart...to our ruin.”

— Klaus Kinski

“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

“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

“If these slaves had only any future, anything to hope for, to strive for, to live for, any prospect before them, then i should…

— Fredrika Bremer

“The every day activity of slaves reproduces slavery”

— Fredy Perlman

“Both slaves had been oiled until their flesh shined like polished ebony, outlining every detail of their muscles.”

— Myra Hargrave McIlvain

“Not all slaves are poor, and not all free men are rich.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

“How to undo slavery's injury to the mental faculties–so many freed men continued to be enslaved by the horrors they'd endured.”

— Colson Whitehead

“This will be seen by the fact, that the slaveholders like to have their slaves spend those days just in such a manner as…

— Frederick Douglass

“That we were slaves I had known all my life--and nothing could be done about it. True, we weren't bought and sold--but as long…

— Robert A. Heinlein