Apology Quote by Julian Castro

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

— Thomas Chatterton Williams

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

“Perhaps after a serious discussion and debate - the kind that HR 40 proposes - we may find that the country can never fully…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

REPARATION, n. Satisfaction that is made for a wrong and deducted from the satisfaction felt in committing it.

— Ambrose Bierce

I'm against reparations. At this point, blacks should just be handing money to themselves.

— Ann Coulter

If I can get enough signatures, to present an apology to slavery, I will present it to the President. The House of Representatives has…

— Kirk Douglas

“But while the people advocating reparations have changed over time, the response from the country has remained virtually the same. “They have been taught…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

I believe the bicentenary offers us a chance not just to say how profoundly shameful the slave trade was - how we condemn its…

— Tony Blair

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

“Moreover, the industrial revolution in the United States, as in most of Europe, depended significantly upon a slave trade that involved elaborate mechanisms for…

— Mark Lewis Taylor

President Biden granting a posthumous Presidential Medal of Freedom to the American enslaved would provide a historic tribute to their stolen legacy. It would…

— Al N. Green

On this International Day for the Abolition of Slavery let us reaffirm the inherent dignity of all men, women and children. And let us…

— Ban Ki-moon