Manisha Sinha famous quotes

Slaveholders deployed so-called scientific racism to justify racial slavery.
-- Manisha Sinha

#Racism #Slavery #Justify

The idea that somehow people of African descent are not part of the same species as whites was accepted by European men of science in the early modern period.
-- Manisha Sinha

#Men #Ideas #People

In trying to address the systemic problem of racial injustice, we would do well to look at abolitionism, because here is a movement of radicals who did manage to effect political change. Despite things that radical movements always face, differences and divisions, they were able to actually galvanize the movement and translate it into a political agenda.
-- Manisha Sinha

#Differences #Political #Trying

In New England enslaved people had the right to sue for wrongful enslavement.
-- Manisha Sinha

#People #England #New England

We often forget that the women's rights movement actually grew out of the abolition movement. It is really within abolitionism that many of the leading women's rights advocates gained experience as organizers and lecturers.
-- Manisha Sinha

#Rights #Movement #Forget

Slave rebellions, especially the [1791] Haitian Revolution, had an ongoing effect on the ways in which abolitionists talked about ending slavery.
-- Manisha Sinha

#Ongoing #Slavery #Way

I'm not going to sit here now and say 'do this,' or 'do that.' But you must - must - expunge any vestige of racism.

The black man continues on his way. He plods wearily no longer-he is striding freedom road with the knowledge that if he hasn't got the world in a jug, at least he has the stopper in his hand.

One of the worst things about racism is what it does to young people.

I do but quote from one of those speeches when I declare that "I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the States where it exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so."

Slavery is the first step towards civilization. In order to develop it is necessary that things should be much better for some and much worse for others, then those who are better off can develop at the expense of others.

Greed is permanent slavery

Slavery didnt break up the black families as much as liberal welfare rules.

Terrorism': the word that means nothing, yet justifies everything.

You sell on emotion, but you justify a purchase with logic.

Most maxim-mongers have preferred the prettiness to the justness of a thought, and the turn to the truth; but I have refused myself to everything that my own experience did not justify and confirm.