Benevolence Quote by George Washington

Emancipation from every kind of bondage is my principle. I go for recognition of human rights, without distinction of sect, party, sex, or color.

— Ernestine Rose

“Marjory Gengler (white American) to Mark Mathabane (black South African) in the late 1970s-- Marjory: Why don't blacks fight to change the system [apartheid]…

— Mark Mathabane

“Congratulations,’ said Damen. ‘You’ve forced my hand. You have what you want. Delpha, in exchange for your aid in the south. Nothing given freely,…

— C.S. Pacat

“With this law in place, White enslavers could now reap financial reward from relations “upon a negro woman.” But they wanted to prevent the…

— Ibram X. Kendi

“Congratulations,’ said Damen. ‘You’ve forced my hand. You have what you want. Delpha, in exchange for your aid in the south. Nothing given freely,…

— C.S. Pacat

We show our sympathy with slavery by emancipating slaves where we cannot reach them, and holding them in bondage where we can set them…

— William H. Seward

If this work can contribute in any way toward proving this, and at the same time arouse the conscience of the American people to…

— Ida B. Wells

Everybody has asked the question, and they learned to ask it early of the abolitionists, 'What shall we do with the Negro?' I have…

— Frederick Douglass

This Civil Rights Act is a challenge to all of us to go to work in our communities and our states, in our homes…

— Lyndon B. Johnson

“Any ministry to black people which is not designed to effect their empowerment is designed to perpetuate their enslavement.”

— Anonymous

The Afro-American is not a bestial race. If this work can contribute in any way towards proving this, and at the same time arouse…

— Ida B. Wells

“We should ask ourselves whether efforts to achieve "cosmetic" racial diversity- that is, reform efforts that make institutions look good on the surface without…

— Michelle Alexander