English language Quote by Ta-Nehisi Coates

“Perhaps after a serious discussion and debate - the kind that HR 40 proposes - we may find that the country can never fully…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

“Moreover, the industrial revolution in the United States, as in most of Europe, depended significantly upon a slave trade that involved elaborate mechanisms for…

— Mark Lewis Taylor

“Two hundred years ago when slavery was going on it was illegal to educate a slave, particularly to teach them to read. Why do…

— Ben Carson

I'm against reparations. At this point, blacks should just be handing money to themselves.

— Ann Coulter

“If everyone was so keen to Christianize the slaves, why weren’t they taught to read the Bible for themselves?”

— Sue Monk Kidd

“We jumped into a waiting bus, and two Negro laborers followed us. We did not drop any money in the slot; the Negroes took…

— Carlos Bulosan

“Over a century ago, prodded by the demands of four million men and women just emerging from slavery, Americans made their first attempt to…

— Eric Foner

“The tightly intertwined stories of the white working class and black Americans go back to the prehistory of the United States—and the use of…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

“The Modern Slavery called ...Work .”

— Makis Philosofukciss

“Many politicians and preachers defended slavery, citing the Bible’s approval of the practice, the inferiority of the African race, the value of preserving the…

— Steven Pinker

“At one meeting in Chicago an old woman who had been born a slave tried to donate her life savings to the cause of…

— Adam Hochschild

In the time just before the bombing of Pearl Harbor, when Perfidia opens, we were pre-psychologized. There were no concepts of identity, no politics…

— James Ellroy