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The perpetuation of slavery, the exile and extermination of American Indians, and the passage of Jim Crow laws weren't carried out at the bidding of a few malefactors of great wealth.

— P. J. O'Rourke

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

John Brown's effort was peculiar. It was not a slave insurrection.

— George Haven Putnam

Nor was it only from the millions of slaves that chains had been removed; the whole nation had been in bondage; free speech had been suppressed.

— Matthew Simpson

The injustices endured by black Americans at the hands of their own government have no parallel in our history, not only during the period of slavery but also in the Jim Crow era that followed.

— Jim Webb

Was it not enough punishment and suffering in history that we were uprooted and made helpless slaves not only in new colonial outposts but also domestically.

— Robert Mugabe

It was the biggest suppression of voting rights in our country's history since Jim Crow. And the thread of race runs from the beginning to the end of my book.

— Sidney Blumenthal

Most men today cannot conceive of a freedom that does not involve somebody's slavery.

— W. E. B. Du Bois

Well for one, the 13th amendment to the constitution of the US which abolished slavery - did not abolish slavery for those convicted of a crime.

— Angela Davis

We incarcerate more African-American men today than were slaves in 1850.

— Marianne Williamson

You got to remember that slavery's very complex. It has a lot of levels to it.

— Paul Mooney

✗Opposing Perspectives

Slavery didn't break up the black families as much as liberal welfare rules.

— Andrew Young