African american Quote by Edward E. Baptist

“Um," I asked, "isn't the whole point about being a slave that you don't have a choice to be anything else?" Prettying up the…

— Sarah Vowell

There's a history of enslaved African-Americans having to make their slave masters comfortable. This business of what we call skinning and grinning - that…

— Maxine Waters

Stories about enslaved Africans can be depressing, exciting, educational and, yes, even entertaining depending on your taste. However, they should never be boring, so…

— Jason Johnson

“It is with the oppressed, enslaved, African race that I cast in my lot; and if I wished anything, I would wish myself two…

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

“Generations of Americans built our Social Security system to provide basic and widespread protection against loss of earnings arising from the death, disability, or…

— David Cay Johnston

Americans have always built for the future. That is why we established land grant colleges and passed the Homestead Act to open our Western…

— Lyndon B. Johnson

I'm interested in the gene bank of how Americans have built in different regions in different times.

— Jaquelin T. Robertson

“By 2000, Americans had built almost twice as much retail space per citizen as any other country in the world: over nineteen square feet…

— Dolores Hayden

“Americans had built themselves a world of speculative pipe dreams. That world was inhabited, not by people who had to be convinced, but by…

— John Kenneth Galbraith

America is not perfect. It took a bloody civil war to free over 4 million African Americans who lived enslaved. It took another hundred…

— Marco Rubio

“One night at a tavern in Virginia’s Greenbrier County, a traveler watched as a group of traders put a coffle of people in one…

— Edward E. Baptist

“Many whites, now proclaiming that science proved that people of African descent were intellectually inferior and congenitally prone to criminal behavior, looked wistfully to…

— Edward E. Baptist

“The idea that the commodification and suffering and forced labor of African Americans is what made the United States powerful and rich is not…

— Edward E. Baptist

“Within half a century after Butler sent Charles Mallory away from Fortress Monroe empty-handed, the children of white Union and Confederate soldiers united against…

— Edward E. Baptist

We Muslims believe that the white race, which is guilty of having oppressed and exploited and enslaved our people here in America, should and…

— Malcolm X