Abe Quote by Malcolm X

Lincoln has accepted America as a biracial society. He's talking about giving at least some black men the right to vote. In the Emancipation…

— Eric Foner

“A man must be disposed to judge of emancipation by other tests than whether it has increased the produce of sugar,—and to hate slavery…

— Frederick Douglass

Whatever Lincoln's racial views, which are not totally modern and egalitarian in many ways, he believes blacks should have this natural right to improve…

— Eric Foner

Everybody has asked the question, and they learned to ask it early of the abolitionists, 'What shall we do with the Negro?' I have…

— Frederick Douglass

The fact that an African American sits in the White House at the helm of government in the United States of America on this…

— Aberjhani

Lincoln merely nominally freed the bodies of Negroes. But Debs would free the bodies and minds of Negroes.

— A. Philip Randolph

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

— Angie Thomas

Emancipation came to the colored race in America as a war measure. It was an act of military necessity. Manifestly it would have come…

— Wendell Willkie

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

— Ned Sublette

“This book argues that mass incarceration is, metaphorically, the New Jim Crow and that all those who care about social justice should fully commit…

— Michelle Alexander

It is my hope that as the Negro plunges deeper into the quest for freedom and justice he will plunge even deeper into the…

— Anonymous

History shows that black people have been second-class citizens, less than human. That's what had to happen with slavery. You had to dehumanise a…

— John Barnes