Books Quote by Thomas Jefferson

“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

“By the middle of the eighteenth century the black slave had sunk, with hushed murmurs, to his place at the bottom of a new…

— W.E.B. Du Bois

It is my hope that as the Negro plunges deeper into the quest for freedom and justice he will plunge even deeper into the…

— Anonymous

“Negro Slavery is an evil of Colossal magnitude and I am utterly averse to the admission of Slavery into the Missouri Territories.”

— John Adams

“Summing up Grant’s career, Frederick Douglass wrote: “In him the Negro found a protector, the Indian a friend, a vanquished foe a brother, an…

— Ron Chernow

The bondage of the Negro brought captive from Africa is one of the greatest dramas in history, and the writer who merely sees in…

— Anonymous

“Even though we are peripheral to the slavery, our action is necessary to overcome a horrific evil.”

— Nicholas D. Kristof

“The abolition of slavery, apart from preservation of the Union, was the most important result of our Civil War. But the transition was badly…

— William Silverman

“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

“the long and bitter political struggle in which he had engaged against slavery had not prepared Mr. Douglass to take up the equally difficult…

— Booker T. Washington

“its foundations are laid, its corner-stone rests, upon the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery subordination…

— Lance T. Stewart

“Freedom is not won by a passive acceptance of suffering. Freedom is won by a struggle against suffering. By this measure, Negroes have not…

— Martin Luther King Jr