{"quotes":[{"text":"Slavery was immensely profitable to some masters. James Madison told a British visitor shortly after the American Revolution that he could make 257 dollars on every (black slave) in a year, and spend only 12 or 13 dollars on his keep.","author":"Howard Zinn","tags":["american-revolution","food-for-thought","founding-fathers","slavery","slavery-history","slavery-in-the-united-states"],"id":83025,"author_id":"Howard+Zinn"},{"text":"Jeems was their body servant and, like the dogs, accompanied them everywhere. He had been their childhood playmate and had been given to the twins for their own on their tenth birthday.","author":"Margaret Mitchell","tags":["slavery","slavery-in-the-united-states"],"id":85762,"author_id":"Margaret+Mitchell"},{"text":"They were erected purposefully to send a strong message to all who walked in their shadows about who was still in charge in this city.","author":"Mitch Landrieu","tags":["oppression","slavery-in-the-united-states"],"id":146693,"author_id":"Mitch+Landrieu"},{"text":"There are people who think they can dance out of slavery. “I’m going to do escapist drugs and hop from one party or festival to another. I will dance my out of the harsh realities of Planet Earth.","author":"Mark Passio","tags":["freedom","liberty","slavery-in-the-united-states"],"id":193641,"author_id":"Mark+Passio"},{"text":"To celebrate freedom and democracy while forgetting American's origins in a slavery economy is patriotism à la carte.","author":"Ta-Nehisi Coates","tags":["american-history","black-history","democracy","freedom","slavery","slavery-in-the-united-states","us-history"],"id":225649,"author_id":"Ta-Nehisi+Coates"},{"text":"The popular mocking of reparations as a harebrained scheme authored by wild-eyed lefties and intellectually unserious black nationalists is fear masquerading as laughter.","author":"Ta-Nehisi Coates","tags":["american-history","hr-40","institutionalized-racism","prejudice","racism","reparations","slavery","slavery-in-the-united-states","white-guilt","whiteness"],"id":225797,"author_id":"Ta-Nehisi+Coates"},{"text":"Who talks most about freedom and equality? Is it not those who hold the bill of rights in one hand and a whip for affrighted slaves in the other?","author":"Alexander Hamilton","tags":["abolicionism","alexander-hamilton","liberty","slavery","slavery-in-the-united-states"],"id":226350,"author_id":"Alexander+Hamilton"},{"text":"Mistakes from our collective past are like any other: they require intervention--a remedy--to correct. They don't erase themselves over time.","author":"Jonathan R. Miller","tags":["history","reparations","slavery-in-the-united-states"],"id":230239,"author_id":"Jonathan+R.+Miller"},{"text":"In the years preceding the Civil War in America, Christian ministers wrote nearly half of all defenses of slavery.","author":"Rachel Held Evans","tags":["christianity","civil-war","hypocrisy","religion","slavery-in-the-united-states"],"id":286765,"author_id":"Rachel+Held+Evans"},{"text":"In Einstein's equation, time is a river. It speeds up, meanders, and slows down. The new wrinkle is it can have whirlpools and fork into two rivers. So, if the river of time can be bent into a pretzel, create whirlpools and fork into two rivers, then time travel cannot be ruled out.","author":"Michio Kaku","tags":["fantasy-fiction","slavery-in-the-united-states","time-travel"],"id":290799,"author_id":"Michio+Kaku"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":15,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}