Henry Louis Gates

Censorship is to art as lynching is to justice. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#censorship #justice #lynching

People who own property feel a sense of ownership in their future and their society. They study, save, work, strive and vote. And people trapped in a culture of tenancy do not. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#feel #future #own #ownership #people

I want to be a figure for prison reform. I think that the criminal justice system is rotten. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#criminal justice #criminal justice system #figure #i #i think

In America there is institutional racism that we all inherit and participate in, like breathing the air in this room - and we have to become sensitive to it. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#america #become #breathing #inherit #institutional

Ever since I watched 'Roots,' I've dreamed of tracing my African ancestry and helping other people do the same. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#ancestry #dreamed #ever #helping #i

I have no plans to slow down. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#i #plans #slow

In America one drop of black ancestry makes you black. In Brazil, it's almost as if one drop of white ancestry makes you white. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#america #ancestry #black #brazil #drop

I would like to do a series about sequencing the human genome, and also analyze more human diversity among other ethnic groups - a 'Faces of America 2.' ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#also #america #among #analyze #diversity

In Ethiopia, the black people became Christians 1700 years ago, hundreds of years before Northern Europe turned to Christianity... And here, most of the saints are black. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#became #before #black #christianity #christians

If Martin Luther King came back, he'd say we need another civil rights movement built on class not race. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#back #built #came #civil #civil rights