America Quote by Michael Scheuer

We have the history of slavery or inequality to women, and now the civil rights movement of the 21st century is the struggle for…

— George Takei

Our struggle is a struggle to redeem the soul of America. It's not a struggle that lasts for a few days, a few weeks,…

— John Lewis

During my lifetime, America has been constantly waging war against much of humanity: impoverished people mostly, in stricken places.

— John Pilger

I think when a society has such a profoundly dark and awful evil such as slavery in its history, then it leaves scars that…

— Ani DiFranco

Hatred, slavery's inevitable aftermath.

— Jose Marti

Our people historically have gone through a lot. That is our story. You can trace it all the way back to slavery. But it…

— Donovan Bailey

Where race is concerned, America has had a horrible, a wretched history and that came to account in the 1960s, with the Civil Rights…

— Shelby Steele

Nobody can deny that we have a lot of wars going on; brothers killing brothers; we have a lot of diseases and catastrophes. But…

— Ousmane Sembene

We must show new energy in fighting back an old evil. Nearly two centuries after the abolition of the transatlantic slave trade, and more…

— George W. Bush

Many heroic things happened during slavery. And remember that there was a national movement away from it even at the time. The era of…

— Wynton Marsalis

We have gone through everything as a nation - partition, dictatorship, and even anarchy.

— Fatos Nano

“The struggle against slavery went on forever, the struggle for women's rights has been going on for centuries, the effort to overcome"wage slavery"—that's been…

— Noam Chomsky