All my life I believed I became an athlete through my own determination, but it's impossible to think that being descended from slaves hasn't left an imprint through the generations. Difficult as it was to hear, slavery has benefited descendants like me - I believe there is a superior athletic gene in us. Michael Johnson
Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty.plato
Difficult as it was to hear, slavery has benefited descendants like me - I believe there is a superior athletic gene in us. Michael Johnson
Excess of liberty, whether it lies in state or individuals, seems only to pass into excess of slavery.plato
In a typical history book, black Americans are mentioned in the context of slavery or civil rights. There's so much more to the story. Kareem Abdul Jabbar
It was men who stopped slavery. It was men who ran up the stairs in the Twin Towers to rescue people. It was men who gave up their seats on the lifeboats of the Titanic. Men are made to take risks and live passionately on behalf of others. John Eldredge
No trace of slavery ought to mix with the studies of the freeborn man. No study, pursued under compulsion, remains rooted in the memory.plato
The acceptance of the facts of African-American history and the African-American historian as a legitimate part of the academic community did not come easily. Slavery ended and left its false images of black people intact. John Henrik Clarke
To depend upon a profession is a less odious form of slavery than to depend upon a father. Virginia Woolf