#avery

The bravery of Stanley Kramer's 'Guess Who's Coming to Dinner' amounted to two Hollywood legends - Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy - telling the world that a black son-in-law is something they can live with, and so should you, especially if he looks like Sidney Poitier and has degrees. ↗

— Wesley Morris

#black #bravery #coming #degrees #dinner

I stopped loving my father a long time ago. What remained was the slavery to a pattern. ↗

— Anais Nin

#ago #father #i #long #long time

Can you look forward to the future of our country and imagine any state of things in which, with slavery still existing, we should be assured of permanent peace? I cannot. ↗

— Robert Dale Owen

#assured #cannot #country #existing #forward

Pervading nationalism imposes its dominion on man today in many different forms and with an aggressiveness that spares no one. The challenge that is already with us is the temptation to accept as true freedom what in reality is only a new form of slavery. ↗

— Pope John Paul II

#aggressiveness #already #challenge #different #dominion

You should see what our Founding Fathers used to say to each other and in the early part of our nation. But what they were able to do, especially in Philadelphia in 1787, four months, they argued about what a House should be, what a Senate should be, the power of the president, the Congress, the Supreme Court. And they had to deal with slavery. ↗

— Colin Powell

#about #argued #congress #court #deal

The challenges African-Americans are facing today are rooted in the system of slavery. ↗

— Charles Rangel

#facing #rooted #slavery #system #today

It is proclaimed by the great leaders of that party, by its political conventions, by its ministers of the Gospel, and by every other means they have of giving currency and importance to the declaration, that it is its mission to abolish slavery in the Union. ↗

— John H. Reagan

#conventions #currency #declaration #every #giving

Greatness, in the last analysis, is largely bravery - courage in escaping from old ideas and old standards and respectable ways of doing things. ↗

— James Robinson

#bravery #courage #doing #escaping #greatness

The Republican Party, which John McCain led as our nominee in 2008, is going to become irrelevant if we become the party of intolerance and hate. The party founded by Abraham Lincoln was a party that fought slavery and intolerance at every level. ↗

— Ed Rollins

#abraham lincoln #become #every #fought #founded

No slavery can be abolished without a double emancipation, and the master will benefit by freedom more than the freed-man. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

#double #emancipation #freedom #master #more