It is roughly estimated that Africa lost 50 million human beings to death and slavery in those centuries we call the beginnings of modern Western civilization, at the hands of slave traders and planta...
It had long been true, and prisoners knew this better than anyone, that the poorer you were the more likely you were to end up in jail. This was not just because the poor committed more crimes. In fac...
In two years, through murder, mutilation, or suicide, half of the 250,000 Indians on Haiti were dead.
If God had intended us to vote, he would have given us candidates
How the public felt about government aid to the poor seemed to depend on how the question was put. Both parties, and the media, talked incessantly about the welfare system, that it was not working, an...
Furthermore, some of the best people in the country were connected with the Communist movement in some way, heroes and heroines one could admire. There was Paul Robeson, the fabulous singer-actor-athl...
From the same prolific womb of governmental injustice we breed two classes—paupers and millionaires….
From that moment on, I was no longer a liberal, a believer in the self-correcting character of American democracy. I was a radical, believing that something fundamental was wrong in this country—not j...
For Indians there has never been a clear line between prose and poetry. When an Indian studying in New Mexico was praised for his poetry he said, In my tribe we have no poets. Everyone talks in poetry...
El grito de los pobres no siempre es justo, pero si no lo escuchas, nunca sabrás lo que es la justicia.
Certain black women faced the triple hurdle—of being abolitionists in a slave society, of being black among white reformers, and of being women in a reform movement dominated by men. When Sojourner Tr...
Brothers! I have listened to many talks from our great white father. When he first came over the wide waters, he was but a little man … very little. His legs were cramped by sitting long in his big bo...
And the New York Journal of Commerce, half-playfully, half-seriously, wrote: Let us go to war. The world has become stale and insipid, the ships ought all to be captured, and the cities battered down,...
The year 1877, the signals were given for the rest of the century: the black would be put back; the strikes of white workers would not be tolerated; the industrial and political elites of North and So...
The media, like the politicians, do not take note of rebellion until it is too large to be ignored.
Strange big boat. When Columbus and his sailors came ashore, carrying swords, speaking oddly, the Arawaks ran to greet them, brought
Pounds…. Thomas Jefferson had written a paragraph of the Declaration accusing the King of transporting slaves from Africa to the colonies and suppressing every legislative attempt to prohibit or to re...
It’s inevitable that we’ve got to bring out the question of the tragic mixup in priorities. We are spending all of this money for death and destruction, and not nearly enough money for life and constr...
Cult of domesticity for the woman was a way of pacifying her with a doctrine of separate but equal—giving her work equally as important as the man’s, but separate and different. Inside that equality t...
Colonial office under England. When the Declaration of Independence was read, with all its flaming radical language, from the town hall balcony in Boston, it was read by Thomas Crafts, a member of the...