Abolition Quote by Eric Foner

As I said in one of my songs, we're still abolishing slavery, but nobody says it's a good thing. Nobody justifies it.

— Dar Williams

“Don't be the slave for the society, be the entrepreneur for yourself.”

— Ade Santi

“For African Americans, war commenced not in 1861, but in 1661, when the Virginia Colony began passing America's first black codes, the charter documents…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

“there is but only one form of socioeconomic society whereby all members of its social group hold unmerited equal status...A social collective/socialist or slave…

— Daryavesh Rothmensch

Christianity is most admirably adapted to the training of slaves, to the perpetuation of a slave society.

— Emma Goldman

You pick up very well-known books on Lincoln [and] you will find almost no reference to his long-term belief in colonization. Why? Because it…

— Eric Foner

Lincoln has accepted America as a biracial society. He's talking about giving at least some black men the right to vote. In the Emancipation…

— Eric Foner

A fully functional multiracial society cannot be achieved without a sense of history and open, honest dialogue.

— Cornel West

What's happening is that Asian and Latino and other groups without that history are more likely to end up in either black churches or…

— Michael Emerson

The historical problem of the United States is to admit that it is a multiracial and multi-ethnic nation.

— Carlos Fuentes

“When there is a gap—between your face and your race, between the baby and the mother, between your body and yourself—you are expected, everywhere…

— Danzy Senna

The challenge for America is: can we become a multicultural, multiracial democracy? It would be historic. It would be America's greatest contribution to human…

— Ro Khanna