John Williams

“Slaveholders have no rights more than any other thief or pirate. They have forfeited even the right to live, and if the slave should put every one of them to the sword tomorrow, who dare pronounce the penalty disproportioned to the crime or say that the criminals deserved less than death at the hands of their long-abused chattels? (The North Star, Volume II, #7 February 9, 1849)”
― Frederick Douglass

“After the alarm caused by Nat Turner's insurrection had subsided, the slaveholders came to the conclusion that it would be well to give the slaves enough of religious instruction to keep them from murdering their masters.”
― Harriet Ann Jacobs, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

“Who can measure the amount of Anglo-Saxon blood coursing in the veins of American slaves?”
― Harriet Ann Jacobs, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

“Racists will always call you a racist when you identify their racism. To love yourself now - is a form of racism. We are the only people who are criticized for loving ourselves. and white people think when you love yourself you hate them. No, when I love myself they become irrelevant to me.”
― John Henrik Clarke