Business Quote by Maxine Waters

It was the fall into history that enslaved us to the labor cycle, to the agricultural cycle. And notice how fiendish it is.

— Terence McKenna

“Enslaved African Americans built the modern United States, and indeed the entire modern world, in ways both obvious and hidden.”

— Edward E. Baptist

Stories about enslaved Africans can be depressing, exciting, educational and, yes, even entertaining depending on your taste. However, they should never be boring, so…

— Jason Johnson

“Um," I asked, "isn't the whole point about being a slave that you don't have a choice to be anything else?" Prettying up the…

— Sarah Vowell

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

— Angie Thomas

I'm not against knowing the history of white people in the U.S. - that's not the point. The point is that there's so much…

— Luis J. Rodriguez

Blacks have a special history, since they were enslaved and were here as early as the first Americans. I hate to sound like a…

— Ann Coulter

“It is with the oppressed, enslaved, African race that I cast in my lot; and if I wished anything, I would wish myself two…

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

Susan Boggs, a black runaway interviewed in Canada in 1863, said of the religious slave masters: 'Why the man that baptized me had a…

— Gerry Spence

“...enslaved black males were socialized by white folks to believe that they should endeabor to become patriarchs by seeking to attain the freedom to…

— bell hooks

The good man, though a slave, is free; the wicked, though he reigns, is a slave, and not the slave of a single man,…

— Anonymous

I can't wait for the 'Shout out to the slave masters!' dance.

— Soulja Boy

“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

“Progressives have spent the better part of a hundred years pushing their agenda - and they've hijacked everything from our kindergartens to our colleges…

— Glenn Beck

“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