In the years preceding the Civil War in America, Christian ministers wrote nearly half of all defenses of slavery.
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Rachel Held Evans
To celebrate freedom and democracy while forgetting American's origins in a slavery economy is patriotism à la carte.
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TaNehisi Coates
An institution rooted in slavery can never set us free.
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DaShanne Stokes
Mistakes from our collective past are like any other: they require intervention--a remedy--to correct. They don't erase themselves over time.
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Jonathan R. Miller
Maybe he wouldn't end up the kind of man who needed to use his body for work. Maybe he'd be a new kind of black man altogether, one who got to use his mind.
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Yaa Gyasi
More Quotes By Mitch Landrieu
It is an affront to our present, and it is a bad prescription for our future. History cannot be changed. It cannot be moved like a statue. What is done is done.
The Confederacy was on the wrong side of history and humanity. It sought to tear apart our nation and subjugate our fellow Americans to slavery. This is the history we should never forget and one that we should never again put on a pedestal to...
We have not erased history; we are becoming part of the city's history by righting the wrong image these monuments represent and crafting a better, more complete future for all our children and for future generations.
They were erected purposefully to send a strong message to all who walked in their shadows about who was still in charge in this city.
Centuries-old wounds are still raw because they never healed right in the first place. Here is the essential truth. We are better together than we are apart.
