American Quote by Henry Louis Gates

I starred in a Broadway play that was Sidney Poitier's first directing job and the cast was Lou Gossett, Cicely Tyson, Diana Ladd and…

— David Steinberg

Many in the English-speaking world came to agree with the Germans that the Treaty of Versailles, and the reparations in particular, were unjust, and…

— Margaret MacMillan

Welfare states on both sides of the Atlantic have discovered that largesse to losers does not reduce their hostility to society, but only increases…

— Thomas Sowell

No love or pity, pardon or excuse should soften the sharp pang of reparation for the guilty man.

— Louisa May Alcott

I should willingly give every drop of my blood to please Him and to prevent sinners offending Him. I shall be satisfied only when…

— Gemma Galgani

If you look at countries like South Africa, where you had a black majority, there have been efforts to tax and help that black…

— Barack Obama

Forget reparations - we need to rescue aspects of black culture abandoned even by black folks, whether it is the blues or home cookin'…

— Kevin Young

Theoretically, you can make, obviously, a powerful argument that centuries of slavery, Jim Crow, discrimination are the primary cause for all those gaps. That…

— Barack Obama

In the time just before the bombing of Pearl Harbor, when Perfidia opens, we were pre-psychologized. There were no concepts of identity, no politics…

— James Ellroy

“Holocaust Theatre (Naskaristana 2799) Most social issues are rooted in religion, most religious issues are rooted in politics, most political issues are vestiges of…

— Abhijit Naskar

You don't make a case for reparations thinking, 'Oh yeah, people are gonna love this.' I didn't see that coming.

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

What I’m talking about is more than recompense for past injustices—more than a handout, a payoff, hush money, or a reluctant bribe. What I’m…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

I do think that some form of reparations for the descendants of American slavery would go a long way.

— Thomas Chatterton Williams

I am optimistic globally. So many scientists are working frantically on the reparation of our planet. Unfortunately there are countries who are still destroying…

— Steve Irwin

When people think about reparations, they immediately think about people who've been dead for 100 years.

— Ta-Nehisi Coates