America Quote by Derrick Bell

Slavery exists. It is black in the South, and white in the North.

— Andrew Johnson

There are millions of white Americans today who still can barely bring themselves to acknowledge that the Civil War, with its twin Americas locked…

— Steve Erickson

“It is a mistaken opinion that prevails in some quarters that the slave does not understand the term - does not comprehend the idea…

— Solomon Northup

Slavery is something that affects all of us. It's all of our history.

— John Ridley

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

— Bill T. Jones

African slavery, as it exists in the United States, is a moral, a social, and a political blessing.

— Jefferson Davis

Pleas for white acceptance of black humanity have a long and terrible history in America, stretching back to the first slave narratives.

— Thomas Chatterton Williams

Slavery is what slavery's always been: About one person controlling another person using violence and then exploiting them economically, paying them nothing. That's what…

— Kevin Bales

I do not think white America is committed to granting equality to the American Negro... this is a passionately racist country; it will continue…

— Susan Sontag

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

I can testify, from my own experience and observation, that slavery is a curse to the whites as well as to the blacks. It…

— Harriet Ann Jacobs

America is as much a black country as a white one. The lives and destinies of the white American are bound up inextricably with…

— Amiri Baraka