America Quote by Ezola B. Foster Download Open image “[God brought African slaves to America] so that their descendants would know freedom.” — Ezola B. Foster ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare African Slaves America Descendants Descendants Know Freedom Know Freedom Knows Scary Slave Slavery Slaves Slaves America
He who would be no slave must consent to have no slave. Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves and,… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
“Slavery as a moral issue never interested Ethel. If God had not meant for Africans to be enslaved, they wouldn’t be in chains.” — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
Freedom was given to humanity by God. But, governments, if they can help it, never give freedom. They just hand out slavery with slogans. — Taylor Caldwell Copy Share Image
Faith in God helped black Americans endure slavery and Jim Crow. — Jesse Lee Peterson Copy Share Image
“The mind is constituted to accept the god of the more powerful. If you have to choose between the god of the slave owner… — Barry Unsworth Copy Share Image
“If everyone was so keen to Christianize the slaves, why weren’t they taught to read the Bible for themselves?” — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
The right to freedom being the gift of God, it is not in the power of man to alienate this gift and voluntarily become… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
The Southern slave would obey God in respect to marriage, and also to the reading and studying of His word. But this, as we… — Gerrit Smith Copy Share Image
When God takes your straw, it isn’t because he wants you to remain a slave. It’s because he wants you to take another step… — Jud Wilhite Copy Share Image
You get a sense that it's okay to have good stuff and still claim a relationship with God. So enslaved Africans rethought their predicament… — Anthony B Pinn Copy Share Image
In part because they had no choice, right? If you were a slave, you did what the master said. And they said to worship:… — Michael Emerson Copy Share Image
Sir, there is no Christian nation, thus free to choose as we are, which would establish slavery. — William H. Seward Copy Share Image
Anyone who says the Confederate Flag is a symbol of hate should be required to go to sensitivity training classes. — Ezola B. Foster Copy Share Image
I was born black, I attended all Negro schools including college, I grew up in the segregated South during Jim Crow. If anybody knows… — Ezola B. Foster Copy Share Image
Well, from 1969 to 1984, until he died of AIDS, a teacher and I were very good friends. He even attended celebrations at my… — Ezola B. Foster Copy Share Image
The costs of the Bush-Obama wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are now estimated to run as high as $4.4 trillion - a major victory… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
Well, The Day the Earth Caught Fire was a story... I don't if anybody knows what it is but it was about... in the… — Val Guest Copy Share Image
So here's what I want you to know, and here's what I want all our men and women in uniform to know: Because of… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Today, the world looks to America for leadership. And America looks to its Corps of Marines. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
The image of blacks usually is one of people who are suffering from hunger, unemployment, and poverty. The idea of them as agents and… — Grace Lee Boggs Copy Share Image
I'll smoke, I'll cough, I'll get the tumors, I'll die, deal? Thank you America. [salutes] — Bill Hicks Copy Share Image
America is a democracy and has no Hitler, but I am afraid for her future; there are hard times ahead for the American people,… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
In the nineteenth century some parts of the world were unexplored, but there was almost no restriction on travel.:; Up to 1914 you did… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
We need a system that serves our needs, not the needs of others. Remember, under a Trump administration it's called America first. Remember that. — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
America, you're sending girls a mixed message. On one hand, you're saying to have positive body image and love who we are; on the… — Adora Svitak Copy Share Image