Black people Quote by David Bradley

“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

The slaves were simply turned loose without any property. They were easily recognizable. They were black. They were suddenly free to go exploring.

— Kurt Vonnegut

“Thousands of brave black soldiers were dead for no other crime than that of refusing to be slaves once more. The colony was devastated,…

— CLR James

“Slave masters thought they were making a difference in black people’s lives too. Saving them from their “wild African ways.”

— Angie Thomas

We hear often of the distress of the negro servants, on the loss of a kind master; and with good reason, for no creature…

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

Sixty thousand blacks are annually embarked from the coast of Guinea, never to return to their native country; but they are embarked in chains:…

— Edward Gibbon

The blacks of this region are a cheerful, careless, dirty, race, not hard worked, and in many respects indulgently treated. It is of course…

— William C. Bryant

People say that slaves were taken from Africa. This is not true: People were taken from Africa, among them healers and priests, and were…

— Abdullah Ibrahim

Your ancestors dragged these black people from their homes by force; and in the white man's quest for wealth and an easy life they…

— Albert Einstein

“The first instance of slave trading and slave labor developed in the New World involved, racially, not the Negro but the Indian. The Indians…

— Eric Williams

Death is a slave's freedom.

— Nikki Giovanni