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Quotes
on slavery |
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As
I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master.
This expresses my idea of democracy. - Abraham Lincoln |
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I
know no class of my fellowmen, however just, enlightened,
and humane, which can be wisely and safely trusted
absolutely with the liberties of any other class.
- Frederick Douglass |
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A
city slave is almost a freeman, compared with a
slave on the plantation - Frederick Douglass |
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There
is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors,
and no slave who has not had a king among his. -
Helen Keller |
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I
have a dream that one day ... the sons of former
slave owners will be able to sit down together at
the table of brotherhood. - Rev. Dr. Martin Luther
King Jr. |
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Quotes
on history |
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A
page of history is worth a volume of logic. - O.
W. Holmes |
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There
is no history of mankind, there is only an indefinite
number of histories of all kinds of aspects of human
life. - Karl Popper |
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If
you would understand anything, observe its beginning
and its development. - Aristotle |
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With
the historian it is an article of faith that knowledge
of the past is a key to understanding the present.
- Kenneth Stampp |
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The
one duty we owe to history is to rewrite it. - Oscar
Wilde |
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From
A Peoples History of the U.S. 1492 - Present
by Howard Zinn |
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The
U.S. government's support of slavery was based on
an overpowering practicality. In 1790, a thousand
tons of cotton were being produced every year in
the South. By 1860, it was a million tons. In the
same period 500,000 slaves grew to 4 million. |
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The
Civil War was one of the bloodiest in human history
up to that time: 600,000 dead on both sides in a
population of 30 million. |
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Two
hundred thousand blacks were in the Union Army and
Navy, and 38,000 were killed. |
