Abraham lincoln Quote by Heather Cox Richardson

The idea that the country should be led by white men goes back to antebellum slaveholders, who argued that the world was naturally divided…

— Heather Cox Richardson

If Republican leaders are willing to enable Trump's autocratic enthusiasms in return for oligarchy, American democracy will die.

— Heather Cox Richardson

These communities that are losing local news coverage are losing something deeper. They're losing a connection to American democracy. And those connections must be…

— Brian Stelter

If everyone on the Court always voted for the prosecution against the defendant, for the corporation against the plaintiffs, and for the government against…

— Sheldon Whitehouse

Our moneyed men have ruled us for the past thirty years. Under the flag of the slaveholder they hoped to destroy our liberty.

— Denis Kearney

Hot weather brings out snakes and slaveholders, and I like one class of the venomous creatures as little as I do the other.

— Harriet Ann Jacobs

The men and women of the North are slaveholders, those of the South slaveowners. The guilt rests on the North equally with the South.

— Susan B. Anthony

“Occasionally, however, when chided by their slaves or others, slaveholders did act in concert with the better selves of their paternalist rhetoric. William Green's…

— Walter Johnson

Faith means making a virtue out of not thinking. It's nothing to brag about; and those who preach faith and enable and elevate it…

— Bill Maher

I assert most unhesitatingly, that the religion of the South is a mere covering for the most horrid crimes—a justifier of the most appalling…

— Frederick Douglass

Slaveholders deployed so-called scientific racism to justify racial slavery.

— Manisha Sinha

It, sometimes, suits the slaveholders to claim, that their slavery is an exclusively State concern; and that the North has, therefore, nothing to do…

— Gerrit Smith