Quote by Rosa Parks

“Slavery by Another Name.”

— Bryan Stevenson

All black Americans have slave names. They have white names; names that the slave master has given to them.

— Muhammad Ali

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

— Angie Thomas

When I heard the truth about my name was not Cassius Clay, like I knew a black man in America named John Hawkins. Now,…

— Muhammad Ali

“When I think of antiquity, the detail that frightens me is that those hundreds of millions of slaves on whose backs civilization rested generation…

— George Orwell

“Until very recent times, few black Americans have regarded the African connection as a major theme in their lives. David Walker, in his 1829…

— Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr

“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

“When creatures refused to use proper names, it was a way of denying that those who were not like you were your equals.”

— Deborah Harkness

The real names of our people were destroyed during slavery. The last name of my forefathers was taken from them when they were brought…

— Malcolm X

“Both slaves and owners were human, and strong relationships often grew between them. But”

— Robert K McIver

“When the slaves finished, they had stripped the fields of their color. It was a magnificent operation, from seed to bale, but no one…

— Colson Whitehead

“When a slave rebels, it is nothing much to the people who read about it later. Just thin words on thinner paper worn finer…

— N.K. Jemisin