Civil rights Quote by Gerald Horne

Part of the reason why we're only now reaching a point in American society where we can talk about the need for truth and…

— Bryan Stevenson

“The history of slavery is the history of the United States. It was not peripheral to our founding; it was central to it. It…

— Clint Smith

When people think of slavery, they think of an era from the distant past. Grainy photographs from Civil War times. And yet it goes…

— Lisa Kristine

And to me, that's why the civil rights era is about the future, not about the past, because it's great lessons of how citizens…

— Taylor Branch

They don't really focus on that history here in America. I remember growing up as a kid, history class was very washed-over. They didn't…

— Aldis Hodge

“American slavery at its beginnings—obscure, distant, and tragic—is probably for most people a less attractive point of focus than the story of the discovery…

— Annette Gordon-Reed

We have the history of slavery or inequality to women, and now the civil rights movement of the 21st century is the struggle for…

— George Takei

The story of emancipation, going really back to the founding of the country all the way to the civil war is very much the…

— Jamelle Bouie

When we hear the word 'slavery,' it can be easy to dismiss it as a relic, a crime from the history books, a shameful…

— Penny Mordaunt

I remember, growing up as a kid, history class was very washed-over. They didn't really get into the gritty bits of slavery. It's a…

— Aldis Hodge

“American slavery at its beginnings—obscure, distant, and tragic—is probably for most people a less attractive point of focus than the story of the discovery…

— Annette Gordon-Reed

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

— Bill T. Jones