Black people Quote by Ibram X. Kendi

Blacks Bought A Lot Of Propaganda On The Liberal Plantation.

— Pat Buchanan

“Slave masters thought they were making a difference in black people’s lives too. Saving them from their “wild African ways.”

— Angie Thomas

“Since the Devil represented criminality, and since criminals in New England were said to be the Devil’s operatives, the Salem witch hunt ascribed a…

— Ibram X. Kendi

“If Blacks did not violently resist, then they were cast as naturally servile. And yet, whenever they did fight, reactionary commentators, in both North…

— Ibram X. Kendi

Negroes could be sold - actually sold as we sell cattle, with no reference to calves or bulls or recognition of family. It was…

— W. E. B. Du Bois

“Thousands of brave black soldiers were dead for no other crime than that of refusing to be slaves once more. The colony was devastated,…

— CLR James

“Slave masters thought they were making a difference in black people’s lives too. Saving them from their “wild African ways.” Same shit, different century.…

— Angie Thomas

“First, it confirmed how inextricably interwoven the past is in the present, how heavily that past bears on the future; we cannot talk about…

— Jesmyn Ward

Up through and including Lincoln, American politicians nursed a fantasy of repatriating blacks to Africa.

— Ned Sublette

There is a mental fear, which provokes others of us to see the images of witches in a neighbor's yard and stampedes us to…

— Edward R. Murrow

“Slaveowners in America were torturing the Africans they enslaved for reading, but the British had discovered the hard way of truth of the maxim…

— Elizabeth Nunez

In a typical history book, black Americans are mentioned in the context of slavery or civil rights. There's so much more to the story.

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar