Evil Quote by John Adams

Negro Slavery is an evil of Colossal magnitude. I am therefore utterly averse to the admission of Slavery into the Missouri Territory, and heartily…

— John Adams

Negro slavery is an evil of colossal magnitude.

— John Adams

“James Tallmadge of New York was the first to try to address this issue by limiting slavery in Missouri, and the Tallmadge Amendment sought…

— Charles River Editors

“In a democratic society, a wrongful practice persists only when most people don’t perceive it to be unjust. At first, only a small minority…

— Peter Thiel

My own convictions as to negro slavery are strong. It has its evils and abuses...We recognize the negro as God and God's Book and…

— Jefferson Davis

“Here, then, is the origin of Negro slavery. The reason was economic, not racial; it had to do not with the color of the…

— Eric Williams

There is great fear expressed on all sides lest this war shall be made a war for the negro. I am willing that it…

— Susan B. Anthony

“Negro slavery, thus, had nothing to do with climate. Its origin can be expressed in three words: in the Caribbean, Sugar; on the mainland,…

— Eric Williams

It was impossible to reason with a negro-that the only way to keep him in his place was to keep him under fear.

— Henry Carter Stuart

“...internalized the Negro theorem of needing to be twice as good to get half as far.”

— Margot Lee Shetterly

Any negro who occupies a position that was given to him by the white man, if you analyze his function, his function never enables…

— Malcolm X

One Negro meeting another at an all-white cocktail party cannot but wonder how the other got there. The question is: Is he for real?…

— Michael Salu

“I remember the first time I ever saw you, the day you came. L.J. and I were so excited about this new person that…

— A.G. Graham

“In the beginning—and neither can this be overstated—a Negro just cannot believe that white people are treating him as they do; he does not…

— James Baldwin

To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time.

— Anonymous