Cheryl

“when I see the same enormities practiced upon beings whose complexion and blood claim kindred with my own, I curse the perpetrators, and weep over the wretched victims of their rapacity. Indeed, truth and justice demand from me the confession that the Christian slaves among the barbarians of Africa are treated with more humanity than the African slaves among the professing Christians of civilized America; and yet here sensibility bleeds at every pore for the wretches whom fate has doomed to slavery." Such testimony would seem to furnish”
― Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Slave Narrative Six Pack 4 - The History of Mary Prince, William W. Brown, White Slavery, The Freedmen’s Book, Lucretia Mott and Lynch Law (Illustrated)

“Just because something isn't a lie does not mean that it isn't deceptive. A liar knows that he is a liar, but one who speaks mere portions of truth in order to deceive is a craftsman of destruction.”
― Criss Jami

“The shorter Negro stood gazing at the horrible death of his brother without flinching. Five minutes later he was also hanged.”
― Ida B. Wells-Barnett, The Red Record

“What man ever openly apologizes for slander? It is not so much a feeling of slander as it is that of a massive lie, a misdeed not only to the slandered but also to those manipulated in the process. He has made them all, every one, his enemies, thereupon he is so overwhelmed with guilt that he will deny it until his grave.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy