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When it comes to Black culture, only us runaway slaves can relate to and perhaps trust each other. – Link Starbureiy	added by anonymous 1 month ago
A great once said he had a dream, yet many of us remain slaves of our own minds and possessions. Until we break the chains of self-imposed limitations and material attachments, the dream of true freedom will elude us, and the echoes of liberation will only be whispers in the corridors of our aspirations. – Christen Kuikoua	added by ChristenKuikouafans 2 months ago
Every member of the society spies on the rest, and it is his duty to inform against them. All are slaves and equal in their slavery... The great thing about it is equality... Slaves are bound to be equal. – Fyodor Dostoyevsky	added by Normando 3 months ago
Adams was encouraging the student-athlete to be more receptive to coaching and referenced Bible verses about workers, teachers, parents, and slaves serving their masters. Adams immediately addressed this with the team and apologized, upon learning of the incident, Hocutt addressed this matter with Adams and issued him a written reprimand. Hocutt subsequently made the decision to suspend Adams effective immediately in order to conduct a more thorough inquiry of Adams’ interactions with his players and staff. – Texas Tech statement	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Well of course he's going to receive criticism because you have to recognize that there has been an attempt to divide the Black community since slavery, you'd tell the slaves that worked in the house they were better than the ones in the yard, the ones in the yard that they were better than the ones in the field. After slavery the light skinned ones were better than the medium skinned ones. – Ben Carson	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
You know what would be the most embarrassing situation? If it didn't pass. I'm honestly concerned that it could be, in our state, a situation where it doesn't actually pass, having that in your constitution, the constitution of the state — where you have descendants of slaves that live here and pay taxes here and raise children here — is totally unacceptable. – Antonio Parkinson	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
Wars in old times were made to get slaves. The modern implement of imposing slavery is debt. – Ezra Pound	added by Normando 2 years ago
If we lose this, we will be slaves of Russians autocrats. – Valeriy Chaly	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
That comparison that he makes to slave owners and slaves is not, sort of, totally unreasonable or out of bounds. – Michele Tafoya	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
The truth of the matter is that what these politicians are doing, they're exploiting really the decency, the decency of the American people, which responded to the situation in this country where racism was much too prevalent and persisted long after the slavery slaves were freed. And America, as a nation stood up, took notice of that and made major major changes, which have opened doors of opportunity throughout the land throughout society. – Ilhan Omar	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Clearly, Winterville Charter Academy parents know that's not how the history works, but what upset me even more -- not only is she teaching history and the Constitution wrong -- but the fact that she personalized it and made Winterville Charter Academy parents students stand up, raise their hand, separate themselves from the rest of the class, and say that they would be working for her in the field as slaves. – Kanisha Tillman	Found on CNN 2 years ago
I dedicate this to African American slaves ancestors, to African American slaves new federal holiday Juneteenth and to all who celebrate freedom, a Capitol Fourth. – African American	Found on CNN 2 years ago
The 3/5 clause was always seen as a concession to the slave states, not some kind of punishment or restriction. Slaves were not citizens or legal persons in any sense of the term ; they would never enjoy political representation in any form. – Jack Rakove	Found on CNN 2 years ago
I had a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons ofthe former slaves and the sons of the former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood – Martin Luther	added by ValidVibes 3 years ago
I like killing people because it is so much fun. It is more fun than killing wild game in the forest because man is the most dangerous animal of all. To kill something gives me the most thrilling experience. It is even better than getting your rocks off with a girl. The best part of it is that when I die, I'll be reborn in paradise, and all that I have killed will become my slaves. I will not give you my name because you will try to slow down, or stop my collection of slaves for my afterlife.” – Zodiac Killer	added by anonymous 3 years ago
Somehow we've weathered and witnessed a nation that isn't broken, but simply unfinished. We, the successors of a country and a time where a skinny Black girl descended from slaves and raised by a single mother can dream of becoming President, only to find herself reciting for one. – Amanda Gorman	Found on CNN 3 years ago
Martin Luther King Jr.Why taught us that racial injustice in United States started with the arrival of colonizers on Native land. The violence these settlers used first against Indigenous peoples, then against Black slaves, was predicated on White supremacist beliefs. White supremacy is upheld by false origin myths about the United States, ignored by whitewashing brutal anti-Native and anti-Black policies, and sustained by stereotyped, inaccurate portrayals of Native people and people of color in popular culture, to create a just world, all people of every race, ethnicity, sexuality, gender expression, and age, must stand together and tell truthful stories about our past and hopeful stories about our future. – Crystal Echo Hawk	Found on CNN 3 years ago
In fact, very few people realize it, but in the late 1700s, there were more quote unquote slaves who were White -- most of them, frankly, were Irish as you pointed out -- indentured servants, than there were slaves who were African. – Douglas Macgregor	Found on CNN 3 years ago
When Blacks were brought here as slaves, they could not sing and tell stories about Whites who were oppressing them, so, they turned them into monsters. A White master or overseer who heard it wouldn't recognize it. – Linda Addison	Found on CNN 3 years ago
They freed the slaves, they literally gave their lives for the cause. – Gregory Cheadle	Found on CNN 3 years ago
The New York Times's 1619 Project -- so named for the year that the Human Rights First slaves were transported to America -- wants you to believe Secretary Pompeo country was founded for human bondage. They want you to believe America's institutions continue to reflect the country's acceptance of slavery at Secretary Pompeo founding, they want you to believe Marxist ideology that America is only the oppressors and the oppressed. The Chinese Communist Party must be gleeful when they see The New York Times spout their ideology. – George Floyd	Found on CNN 3 years ago
What shall be done with the four million slaves if they are emancipated? ... Primarily, it is a question less for man than for God -- less for human intellect than for the laws of nature to solve. It assumes that nature has erred; that the law of liberty is a mistake; that freedom, though a natural want of the human soul, can only be enjoyed at the expense of human welfare, and that men are better off in slavery than they would or could be in freedom; that slavery is the natural order of human relations, and that liberty is an experiment. What shall be done with them? Our answer is, do nothing with them; mind your business, and let them mind theirs. Your doing with them is their greatest misfortune. They have been undone by your doings, and all they now ask, and really have need of at your hands, is just to let them alone. They suffer by every interference, and succeed best by being let alone. – Frederick Douglass	added by Normando 3 years ago
Rayshard Brooks talks about how hard it is to come back, to recover when you return. Rayshard Brooks was trying. Rayshard Brooks had been digging Rayshard Brooks way back. And Rayshard Brooks knew that night that Rayshard Brooks could very well lose Rayshard Brooks liberty, afraid of losing Rayshard Brooks liberty, Rayshard Brooks lost Rayshard Brooks life, running from a system that too often makes slaves out of people. – The Rev. Raphael G. Warnock	Found on CNN 3 years ago
There's a lot of research on the theme of redemption. It's sort of a classic American master narrative, we have the Puritan settlers finding freedom. We have ex-slaves' narratives about liberation. We have the rags to riches stories. – Jonathan Adler	Found on CNN 3 years ago

When it comes to Black culture, only us runaway slaves can relate to and perhaps trust each other.

– Link Starbureiy

added by anonymous
1 month ago

A great once said he had a dream, yet many of us remain slaves of our own minds and possessions. Until we break the chains of self-imposed limitations and material attachments, the dream of true freedom will elude us, and the echoes of liberation will only be whispers in the corridors of our aspirations.

– Christen Kuikoua

added by ChristenKuikouafans
2 months ago

Every member of the society spies on the rest, and it is his duty to inform against them. All are slaves and equal in their slavery... The great thing about it is equality... Slaves are bound to be equal.

– Fyodor Dostoyevsky

added by Normando
3 months ago

Adams was encouraging the student-athlete to be more receptive to coaching and referenced Bible verses about workers, teachers, parents, and slaves serving their masters. Adams immediately addressed this with the team and apologized, upon learning of the incident, Hocutt addressed this matter with Adams and issued him a written reprimand. Hocutt subsequently made the decision to suspend Adams effective immediately in order to conduct a more thorough inquiry of Adams’ interactions with his players and staff.

– Texas Tech statement

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Well of course he's going to receive criticism because you have to recognize that there has been an attempt to divide the Black community since slavery, you'd tell the slaves that worked in the house they were better than the ones in the yard, the ones in the yard that they were better than the ones in the field. After slavery the light skinned ones were better than the medium skinned ones.

– Ben Carson

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

You know what would be the most embarrassing situation? If it didn't pass. I'm honestly concerned that it could be, in our state, a situation where it doesn't actually pass, having that in your constitution, the constitution of the state — where you have descendants of slaves that live here and pay taxes here and raise children here — is totally unacceptable.

– Antonio Parkinson

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Wars in old times were made to get slaves. The modern implement of imposing slavery is debt.

– Ezra Pound

added by Normando
2 years ago

If we lose this, we will be slaves of Russians autocrats.

– Valeriy Chaly

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

That comparison that he makes to slave owners and slaves is not, sort of, totally unreasonable or out of bounds.

– Michele Tafoya

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The truth of the matter is that what these politicians are doing, they're exploiting really the decency, the decency of the American people, which responded to the situation in this country where racism was much too prevalent and persisted long after the slavery slaves were freed. And America, as a nation stood up, took notice of that and made major major changes, which have opened doors of opportunity throughout the land throughout society.

– Ilhan Omar

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Clearly, Winterville Charter Academy parents know that's not how the history works, but what upset me even more -- not only is she teaching history and the Constitution wrong -- but the fact that she personalized it and made Winterville Charter Academy parents students stand up, raise their hand, separate themselves from the rest of the class, and say that they would be working for her in the field as slaves.

– Kanisha Tillman

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I dedicate this to African American slaves ancestors, to African American slaves new federal holiday Juneteenth and to all who celebrate freedom, a Capitol Fourth.

– African American

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The 3/5 clause was always seen as a concession to the slave states, not some kind of punishment or restriction. Slaves were not citizens or legal persons in any sense of the term ; they would never enjoy political representation in any form.

– Jack Rakove

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I had a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons ofthe former slaves and the sons of the former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood

– Martin Luther

added by ValidVibes
3 years ago

I like killing people because it is so much fun. It is more fun than killing wild game in the forest because man is the most dangerous animal of all. To kill something gives me the most thrilling experience. It is even better than getting your rocks off with a girl. The best part of it is that when I die, I'll be reborn in paradise, and all that I have killed will become my slaves. I will not give you my name because you will try to slow down, or stop my collection of slaves for my afterlife.”

– Zodiac Killer

added by anonymous
3 years ago

Somehow we've weathered and witnessed a nation that isn't broken, but simply unfinished. We, the successors of a country and a time where a skinny Black girl descended from slaves and raised by a single mother can dream of becoming President, only to find herself reciting for one.

– Amanda Gorman

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Martin Luther King Jr.Why taught us that racial injustice in United States started with the arrival of colonizers on Native land. The violence these settlers used first against Indigenous peoples, then against Black slaves, was predicated on White supremacist beliefs. White supremacy is upheld by false origin myths about the United States, ignored by whitewashing brutal anti-Native and anti-Black policies, and sustained by stereotyped, inaccurate portrayals of Native people and people of color in popular culture, to create a just world, all people of every race, ethnicity, sexuality, gender expression, and age, must stand together and tell truthful stories about our past and hopeful stories about our future.

– Crystal Echo Hawk

Found on CNN
3 years ago

In fact, very few people realize it, but in the late 1700s, there were more quote unquote slaves who were White -- most of them, frankly, were Irish as you pointed out -- indentured servants, than there were slaves who were African.

– Douglas Macgregor

Found on CNN
3 years ago

When Blacks were brought here as slaves, they could not sing and tell stories about Whites who were oppressing them, so, they turned them into monsters. A White master or overseer who heard it wouldn't recognize it.

– Linda Addison

Found on CNN
3 years ago

They freed the slaves, they literally gave their lives for the cause.

– Gregory Cheadle

Found on CNN
3 years ago

The New York Times's 1619 Project -- so named for the year that the Human Rights First slaves were transported to America -- wants you to believe Secretary Pompeo country was founded for human bondage. They want you to believe America's institutions continue to reflect the country's acceptance of slavery at Secretary Pompeo founding, they want you to believe Marxist ideology that America is only the oppressors and the oppressed. The Chinese Communist Party must be gleeful when they see The New York Times spout their ideology.

– George Floyd

Found on CNN
3 years ago

What shall be done with the four million slaves if they are emancipated? ... Primarily, it is a question less for man than for God -- less for human intellect than for the laws of nature to solve. It assumes that nature has erred; that the law of liberty is a mistake; that freedom, though a natural want of the human soul, can only be enjoyed at the expense of human welfare, and that men are better off in slavery than they would or could be in freedom; that slavery is the natural order of human relations, and that liberty is an experiment. What shall be done with them? Our answer is, do nothing with them; mind your business, and let them mind theirs. Your doing with them is their greatest misfortune. They have been undone by your doings, and all they now ask, and really have need of at your hands, is just to let them alone. They suffer by every interference, and succeed best by being let alone.

– Frederick Douglass

added by Normando
3 years ago

Rayshard Brooks talks about how hard it is to come back, to recover when you return. Rayshard Brooks was trying. Rayshard Brooks had been digging Rayshard Brooks way back. And Rayshard Brooks knew that night that Rayshard Brooks could very well lose Rayshard Brooks liberty, afraid of losing Rayshard Brooks liberty, Rayshard Brooks lost Rayshard Brooks life, running from a system that too often makes slaves out of people.

– The Rev. Raphael G. Warnock

Found on CNN
3 years ago

There's a lot of research on the theme of redemption. It's sort of a classic American master narrative, we have the Puritan settlers finding freedom. We have ex-slaves' narratives about liberation. We have the rags to riches stories.

– Jonathan Adler

Found on CNN
3 years ago

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