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Did John Brown fail? John Brown began the war that ended American slavery and made this a free Republic. — Frederick Douglass

The enemies of American civilization
for such are the enemies of slavery
seem to be more on the alert than its friends. — William Walker

One of those personalities who, in spite of all their words, are inarticulate — F Scott Fitzgerald

I am a descendent of a whole bunch of Black folk who couldn't be broken. — Darnell Lamont Walker

Stolen bodies working stolen land. It was an engine that did not stop, its hungry boiler fed with blood. — Colson Whitehead

How do you know how much to pay if you don't know what it's worth? — Peter Carey

I did not tell you it would be okay because I never believed it would be okay. — Ta-Nehisi Coates

Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally. — Abraham Lincoln

Everything on this earth right now is about labor and slavery. War is the only American export left that anyone wants to buy. — Roseanne Barr

A startling and engrossing commentary on the complex actuality and continuing heritage of American slavery. — Sherley Anne Williams

Humour is a great vehicle for getting a message across. If you get too serious, you could die of starch. — Cyndi Lauper

Just been poisoned by my gran. Nothing says Christmas better than familicide and anaphylactic shock. — R.D. Ronald

Slavery is a memory of something we cannot remember, and yet we cannot forget. — Bill T. Jones

How a member of the church - one who had read the Good Lord's bible - could sit so calmly and watch a man be led to his destruction frightened me. — Jay Grewal

I did not fail two thousand times. I merely found two thousand ways not to make a lightbulb. — Thomas A. Edison

To see an African-American elected president means that this country is really finally coming full circle from the birth defect of slavery. — Condoleezza Rice

We French, we have never, never, never had slavery, so we feel we don't understand the American racism. Maybe — Maya Angelou

American slavery was not a Sergio Leone Spaghetti Western. It was a holocaust. My ancestors are slaves. Stolen from Africa. I will honor them. — Spike Lee

The slaves who were ourselves had known terror intimately, confused sunrise with pain, & accepted indifference as kindness. — Ntozake Shange

Harriet Tubman fought American slavery single handed and was a pioneer in that organized effort known as the Underground Railroad. — W.E.B. Du Bois

Fiction allows you to embody certain ideas and give them an emotional reality. The characters allow you to get close viscerally to an idea. — Anne Michaels

Slavery was the betrayal of the American Promise at the moment that promise was made. — Steve Erickson

he's the yin to my yang" -Emma Wise — Cameo Renae

< ... > tyranny is a central theme of American history, that racial exploitation and racial conflict have been part of the DNA of American culture. — David Brion Davis

Slavery is the great and foul stain upon the North American Union. — John Quincy Adams

He said it like he assumed I knew what the grandfather paradox was, because, if I didn't know, then I was a moron. I hate when people do that. — Rick Yancey

... I admire.... your foolish determination.... — Deyth Banger