James A. Garfield on slavery

Now more than ever before, the people are responsible for the character of their Congress. If that body be ignorant, reckless and corrupt, it is because the people tolerate ignorance, recklessness and corruption.

The President is the last person in the world to know what the people really want and think.

If any theories or opinions of mine can be damaged by facts, so much the worse for my theories.

This country was built on rape, slavery, murder, degradation and affiliation with crime.

Mike Tysonborn 1966

• America

Before the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth, we were here. Before the pen of Jefferson etched across the pages of history the majestic words of the Declaration of Independence, we were here. If the inexpressible cruelties of slavery could not stop us, the opposition we now face will surely fail.

Martin Luther King Jr.1929–1968

• Race

He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a king.

Augustine of Hippo354–430

• Freedom
• Virtue