Africa Quote by Thomas Sowell

But what we strive to gratify, though we may call it a distant hope, is an immediate desire; the future estate for which men…

— George Eliot

It is the around-the-corner brand of hope that prompts people to action, while the distant hope acts as an opiate.

— Eric Hoffer

But the distant hope of being one day useful or eminent ought not to mislead us too far from that study which is equally…

— Samuel Johnson

I do think that some form of reparations for the descendants of American slavery would go a long way.

— Thomas Chatterton Williams

Black people are experiencing a systemic disadvantage, and it goes back to slavery, which was not that long ago.

— Justin Simien

It was a glorious resurrection, from the tomb of slavery, to the heaven of slavery. My long-crushed spirit rose, cowardice departed, bold defiance took…

— Frederick Douglass

And out of that hopeless attempt has come nearly all that we call human history—money, poverty, ambition, war, prostitution, classes, empires, slavery—the long terrible…

— Anonymous

Slavery was a long slow process of dulling.

— Octavia Butler

Slavery is a long slow process of dulling.

— Octavia Butler

“Although slavery has long been a part of human history, American chattel slavery represents a case of human trauma incomparable in scope, duration and…

— Joy Degruy Leary

Some few, and I am one of them, even wish to God, though at the loss of millions of lives, that the North would…

— Charles Darwin

“It was not until the year 1808 that Great Britain abolished the slave trade. Up to that time her judges, sitting upon the bench…

— Robert G. Ingersoll