Abraham Quote by Ta-Nehisi Coates Download Open image “Abraham Lincoln was killed by the forces of white supremacy.” — Ta-Nehisi Coates ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Abraham Forces Supremacy White
The force that has come closest across American history to actually ending America was white supremacy. That was the Civil War. — Pete Buttigieg Copy Share Image
Was not Abraham Lincoln an extremist? - "This nation cannot survive half slave and half free." — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Frederick Douglass ran a primary campaign against [Abraham Lincoln] the second time around, in 1864. They hated him. Why'd they hate him? Because he… — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
What Abraham Lincoln had to face was a culturally and politically cohesive bloc of states comprising half the country, refusing to discuss even the… — Allen C. Guelzo Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“The most sanctified figure in American historiography is, by no accident, the Great Saint of centralizing "democracy" and the strong unitary nation-state: Abraham Lincoln.… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
“Roosevelt was as much concerned to end the oppression of Jews as Lincoln was to end slavery during the Civil War; their priority in… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
Most historians agree that Abraham Lincoln was the most important man to ever occupy the White House because he abolished slavery and kept the… — Kitty Kelley Copy Share Image
The casualties in the Civil War amount to more than all other wars - all other American wars combined. More people died in that… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
“To Trump whiteness is neither notional nor symbolic but is the very core of his power. In this, Trump is not singular. But whereas… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
“The focus on one sector of Trump voters—the white working class—is puzzling, given the breadth of his white coalition. Indeed, there is a kind… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
The greatest reward of this constant interrogation, confrontation with the brutality of my country, is that it has freed me from hosts and myths. — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
What I am telling you is that you do not need to know to love, and it is right that you feel it all… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
I think 'Dear White People,' the show, is a tremendous artistic achievement. It's always hinting that there is something beyond the pleading and wokeness,… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
[Winning the White House was an achievement], but as an African-American, [Barack Obama], I think the symbolism is in how he conducted himself. The… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
What sets black people apart is not some deficit in personal responsibility. It's the weight on our shoulders. That is what's actually different. We… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
Like a lot of people, I'm very, very concerned about Senator Clinton's record. I'm very, very concerned about where her positions were in the… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
“I drove away, as always, thinking of you. I do not believe that we can stop them, Samori, because they must ultimately stop themselves.… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
What I’m talking about is more than recompense for past injustices—more than a handout, a payoff, hush money, or a reluctant bribe. What I’m… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
The mainstream sort of presentation of the civil rights movement was not something that I directly inherited. — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
[Grew up in Hawaii] that gave [Barack Obama] a kind of optimism, an ability to see things, you know, and frankly, an ability to… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
“That’s all! Now either leave us alone or join us as a father rather than a receiver of sacrifices. You have the choice of… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
Hebron is a bone of contention between Israeli settlers and the Palestinians in part because Abraham is buried there, in the Tomb of the… — Michael Korda Copy Share Image
Donald Trump is not going to be the nominee, because we are not going to allow - people will wake up and we're not… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
“Never you look down on your Abraham because of your Sarah because the blessing is not in the womb of Sarah but in the… — Ikechukwu Izuakor Copy Share Image
Moses was a great leader, right? But he wasn't a great communicator. And so God sent him Aaron so he could, let's say, communicate. — Javier Milei Copy Share Image
“In the end, thought Sol, past logic and hope, it is dreams and the love of those dearest to us that form Abraham’s answer… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
It was psychobabbler Abraham Maslow who wrote of the phenomena of self-actualization. What Maslow failed to grasp is that reaching true self-actualization can only… — Ted Nugent Copy Share Image
“Mungu hutumia watu 'wajinga' na 'wapumbavu' kufanya mambo makubwa katika maisha yao na ya watu wengine. Katika Biblia, Musa aliitwa mjinga alipokiuka amri ya… — Enock Maregesi Copy Share Image
Everybody faces obstacles. And I looked to people who had been through many to succeed in life. Abraham Lincoln, born to a poor family,… — Dave Winfield Copy Share Image
Someone asked me...how it felt and I was reminded of a story that a fellow townsman of ours used to tell--Abraham Lincoln. They asked… — Anonymous Copy Share Image