Education Quote by John Sergeant Wise

White colonizers fundamentally screwed up what enslaved people thought of fatherhood.

— Jason Johnson

With a combination of warped Christianity and White supremacy, enslavers created an absolutely bizarre notion of patrimony and fatherhood that was both inaccessible and…

— Jason Johnson

“By the beginning of the eighteenth century, the Virginia elites had taken the best land for themselves, leaving the former indentured servants land poor…

— Annette Gordon-Reed

“The influences and associations that had always surrounded him, blinded him to the inherent wrong at the bottom of the system of Slavery. He…

— Solomon Northup

For the Negro, Andrew Johnson did less than nothing when once he realized that the chief beneficiary of labor and economic reform in the…

— W. E. B. Du Bois

My father's approach to the most brutal and unambiguous social injustices during the civil rights struggle was rooted in nonviolence as a morally and…

— Martin Luther King III

Daddy was for the people, and his message continues to transcend ages, generations, race and gender, because what he spoke was the truth. He…

— Cedella Marley

“By the middle of the eighteenth century the black slave had sunk, with hushed murmurs, to his place at the bottom of a new…

— W.E.B. Du Bois

The perpetuation of slavery, the exile and extermination of American Indians, and the passage of Jim Crow laws weren't carried out at the bidding…

— P. J. O'Rourke

Let your observations and comparisons produce in your mind an abhorrence of domination and power, the parent of slavery, ignorance, and barbarism, which places…

— Abigail Adams

No trace of slavery ought to mix with the studies of the freeborn man. No study, pursued under compulsion, remains rooted in the memory.

— Plato

The sense that in his mother's view, he had let down his family just by being who he was... was a failure of acceptance…

— J.R. Ward