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

— John Adams

“Meanwhile, the issue of whether Kansas would be admitted to the union as a slave or free state was to be decided by popular…

— Lance T. Stewart

“The negroes been freed.' 'Well, I ain't.”

— Andrew Lytle

“If we had learned anything over the last decade, it was that there was no other way to defeat slavery, except with a willingness…

— Russell Banks

“These negroes aren't asking for no nation. They wanna crawl back on the plantation.”

— Malcolm X

“We cannot afford to lose the Negro. We have urgent need of all and more. Let us therefore turn our efforts to making the…

— Andrew Carnegie

“let them behold him scourged, hunted, trampled on, and they will come back with another story in their mouths. Let them know the heart…

— Solomon Northup

“He simply wishes to make it possible for a man to be both a Negro and an American, without being cursed and spit upon…

— W.E.B. Du Bois

“I am very much concerned that American Negroes achieve their freedom here in the United States. But I am also concerned for their dignity,…

— James Baldwin

“I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the States where it exists. I believe I have…

— Abraham Lincoln

Negro Slavery is an evil of Colossal magnitude. I am therefore utterly averse to the admission of Slavery into the Missouri Territory, and heartily…

— John Adams

“For crying out loud, Baker, what rock have you been living under? Oh, yeah, you're from Kansas." He said it as if Kansas were…

— Clare Vanderpool