Abraham lincoln Quote by Robert A. Caro

“Abraham Lincoln would maintain that he had never been in favor “of making voters or jurors of negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold…

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

“On February 7, President Johnson met at the White House with five black leaders, including Frederick Douglass, who came to lobby for a civil…

— Ron Chernow

“And now the lies of the Civil War and the lies of these post-racial years began to resonate with each other, and I could…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

“That he won at all is the result of an electoral college system originally designed to protect the power of slave owners.”

— Naomi Klein

“Lincoln, who had a personal aversion to blacks and feared they could never be absorbed into a white society, wanted to see them settled…

— James A. Michener

“Just as African Americans had learned that they did not have enough strength to make good the promises of emancipation, working people learned that…

— Howard Zinn

“Grant deserves an honored place in American history, second only to Lincoln for what he did for the freed slaves. He got the big…

— Ron Chernow

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

— Edward E. Baptist

“By the middle to the end of the 1970s, Black Power as we envisioned was a dream deferred. And I was no longer in…

— Junius Williams

Keeping the Union together, freeing slaves and being assassinated all added up to creating 'Lincoln the myth.' He overcame a lot of his own…

— Henry Louis Gates

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

— Ned Sublette

“In the words of Frederick Douglass, “That sturdy old Roman, Benjamin Butler, made the negro a contraband, Abraham Lincoln made him a freeman, and…

— Ron Chernow