African american Quote by Stephen Ambrose Download Open image “To be a slaveholder meant one had to regard the African American as inferior in every way.” — Stephen Ambrose ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare African american Regard Slaveholders Way
Let me state here and now that the black woman in America can justly be described as a 'slave of a slave. — Frances M. Beal Copy Share Image
“African slavery lacked two elements that made American slavery the most cruel form of slavery in history: the frenzy for limitless profit that comes… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
History shows that black people have been second-class citizens, less than human. That's what had to happen with slavery. You had to dehumanise a… — John Barnes Copy Share Image
“Slave masters thought they were making a difference in black people’s lives too. Saving them from their “wild African ways.” — Angie Thomas Copy Share Image
“It was well understood that if by the teaching of history the white man could be further assured of his superiority and the Negro… — Carter G. Woodson Copy Share Image
“I admit that the black man is inferior. But what is it that makes him so? It is the ignorance in which white men compel him to live; it is the torturing whip that lashes manhood out of him; it is the fierce bloodhounds of the South, and the scarcely less cruel human bloodhounds of the north, who enforce the… — Harriet Jacobs Copy Share
The true objection to slavery is not that it is unjust to the inferior but that it corrupts the superior. — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
The slave-breeders and slave-traders, are a small, odious and detested class, among you; and yet in politics, they dictate the course of all of… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
“A slave was the property of his or her master as were all the women in his family, and it was argued that both… — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“It reminded me of a time thirteen centuries away, when the "poor whites" of our South who were always despised and frequently insulted by the slave-lords around them, and who owed their base condition simply to the presence of slavery in their midst, were yet pusillanimously ready to side with the slave-lords in all political moves for the upholding and… — Mark Twain Copy Share
I never held Negroes to be inherently inferior. The statement in Marriage and Morals refers to environmental conditioning. I have had it withdrawn from… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Trial by jury. Live wherever you can make a living. How could a government based on such principles fail? — Stephen Ambrose Copy Share Image
The great wars of the 20th Century made it into the worst Century ever. — Stephen Ambrose Copy Share Image
It is through history that we learn who we are and how we got that way, why and how we changed, why the good… — Stephen Ambrose Copy Share Image
There are many more want-to-be writers out there than good editors. — Stephen Ambrose Copy Share Image
The number one secret of being a successful writer is this: marry an English major. — Stephen Ambrose Copy Share Image
In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries you have these great nation states hurling their young men at one another. The victory was really going… — Stephen Ambrose Copy Share Image
You don't hate history, you hate the way it was taught to you in high school. — Stephen Ambrose Copy Share Image
The American Constitution is the greatest governing document, and at some 7,000 words, just about the shortest. — Stephen Ambrose Copy Share Image
We are part of a country that outshines those that have gone before us and most of those in existence today. — Stephen Ambrose Copy Share Image
This is, for an accomplished Latino, an accomplished African American, an accomplished anyone who disproves stereotypes, it's a constant battle in your life. — Sonia Sotomayor Copy Share Image
I grew up in Synagogue in the boys' choir. We didn't listen to music in the house; only at temple. Then I went to… — Mandy Patinkin Copy Share Image
I agreed a long time ago, I would not live at any cost. If I am moved or forced away from what I think… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
There could be no more powerful argument against mixing religion and government than the success of independent African American churches in placing racial segregation… — Susan Jacoby Copy Share Image
“This popularity extended to Trump himself, who, according to private demographic research conducted at the time, was even more popular with African American and… — Joshua Green Copy Share Image
American civil rights leader, Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community? Lynching is a murder. For the past four hundred years our… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
I know I'm more forgiving than most African Americans when it comes to second chances for White people who not only commit a racial… — Jonathan Capehart Copy Share Image
Some Republicans gave up on winning the African-American vote, looking the other way or trying to benefit politically from racial polarization. I am here… — Ken Mehlman Copy Share Image
It's unfortunate that a lot of people think African-American female artists are monolithically R&B this-or-that, don't have to do anything by default. — Janelle Monae Copy Share Image
Whereas our ancestors (not of choice) were the first successful cultivators of the wilds of America, we their descendants feel ourselves entitled to participate… — Richard Allen Copy Share Image
It may be changing, but still it's the one place, that total control of an institution, that African Americans have. So sometimes, you know,… — Michael Emerson Copy Share Image
Most of the more celebrated names among African-American authors, poets, and artists are known to the world because of their association with specific cultural… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image