Back in time Quote by Stefan Molyneux

When people think of slavery, they think of an era from the distant past. Grainy photographs from Civil War times. And yet it goes…

— Lisa Kristine

There's injustices within our system that we inherited from this time, from slavery, and until we confront our past, we're not going to be…

— Jurnee Smollett-Bell

“The history of slavery is the history of the United States. It was not peripheral to our founding; it was central to it. It…

— Clint Smith

You have reckoned that history ought to judge the past and to instruct the contemporary world as to the future. The present attempt does…

— Leopold von Ranke

We need to think about the future, not the past.

— David Dellinger

Coming up in America in the '80s and '90s, we were not too far removed from slavery. People forget that.

— Freddie Gibbs

For years I felt that I wasn't ready to take on slavery. It's a huge topic, and I didn't want to mess it up.

— Colson Whitehead

The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future.

— Jessamyn West

Slavery is a memory of something we cannot remember, and yet we cannot forget.

— Bill T. Jones

People need to look forward to the future instead of the past.

— Fala Chen

I mean, let's face it, we didn't have slavery in this country for over 100 years because it was a bad thing. Quite the…

— Dave Zirin

I believe a time will come when an opportunity will be offered to abolish this lamentable evil. Everything we do is to improve it,…

— Patrick Henry