Immigrants Quote by Thomas Chatterton Williams

I am the descendant of slaves, of people that were born from a slave and a slave master.

— Cory Booker

My parents came from the south. So their ancestors were actually slaves in this country.

— Isaac Wright Jr

I am a descendant of slaves. My great grandmother Mary Thomas, born in 1865, was the child of a slave. That is just three…

— Linda Thomas-Greenfield

I'm the descendant of enslaved black people in this country. You could've been born in 1820 if you were black and looked back to…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

I came from an intellectual family. Most were doctors, preachers, teachers, businessmen. My grandfather was a small businessman. His father was an abolitionist doctor,…

— Pete Seeger

My mom is a Sikh immigrant born in a refugee camp. My Irish-Swedish-Norwegian-Danish-English-American dad grew up Baptist.

— Andy Dunn

I learned that not only am I a descendant of slaves, but that I am also a descendant of royalty, that there are politicians…

— Cuba Gooding, Jr

My mother was born in your state, Mr. Walter, and my mother was a Quaker, and my ancestors in the time of Washington baked…

— Paul Robeson

I had ancestors who were slave-holders, which is a difficult piece of family history to say the least. In a recent New York Times…

— Laura Lippman

As my ancestors are free from slavery, I am free from the slavery of religion.

— Butterfly McQueen

I am first-generation American, so I didn't grow up in the South or have any relatives who were slaves. My forefathers were colonized.

— Adina Porter

I wasn't trying to work out my own ancestry. I was trying to get people to feel slavery. I was trying to get across…

— Anonymous