Quotes About Reparation

The people of the North owe to the colored race a deep obligation that is no easy matter to fulfill.

I don't think baseball owes colored people anything. I don't think colored people owe baseball anything, either.

The cost of justice can be justly paid only by the invader.

If you really screw up, send roses.

An apology is supposed to be a communion—a coming together. For someone to make an apology, someone has to be listening. They listen and you speak and there's an exchange. That's why we have a thing about accepting apologies.

In addition to the above-referenced loans, I owe: The inalienable privilege of my race to the victims of the Middle Passage, a debt whose repayment has proven tricky to schedule, given the endless deferments, if not forbearances, and the way that the blood of slavery tends to run clear in the tears of liberals.

Apa yan pernah diberikan Belanda kepada rakyat? Mereka datang ke sini bukan untuk memberi, tetapi untuk meminta! Rakyat mendapat apa yang dicarinya sendiri, sejak dulu si Belanda lah yan malahan mendapat sebagian besar dari nasi yang dicari oleh rakyat. Apa yang diberikan Belanda kepada rakyat?

But our fear is, that the poison may be more powerful than the food, and what is strength in her to-day may not be the sign of health, but the contrary; for it may be temporarily caused by the upsetting of the balance of life. Our fear is that evil has a fateful fascination, when it assumes dimensions which are colossal,—and though at last, it is sure to lose its centre of gravity, by its abnormal disproportion, the mischief which it creates before its fall may be beyond reparation.

It was odd how many wrongs leaving money seemed to right.

Imagine if we natives went to the cemeteries in your cities and dug up your beloved relatives, pulled off rings, watches, and clothes, and called them artifacts, then carried the bones over to the university for study so we could understand you. Consider that there are more bones of native people in universities and museums for study, than there are those of us living.

Whoever has offended another with insults or harmful words or even a serious accusation must remember to right the wrong he has done at the earliest opportunity.

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If actions were always judged by their consequence, we'd spend half our lives making amends." -Luke Skywalker

I sometimes wonder," said Francis Crawford, "if I only exist to be sacrificed to." Her heart beating strongly, she watched him. "Perhaps," she said. "But if you accept sacrifices, you must respond with acts of reparation.

Until America's white ruling class accepts the fact that the book never closes on massive unredressed social wrongs, America can have no future as one people.

At long last, let America contemplate the scope of its enduring human-rights wrong against the whole of a people. Let the vision of blacks not become so blighted from a sunless eternity that we fail to see the staggering breadth of America's crime against us.

I'm sorry. It's my fault. How do I make it right?

my reggae teaches the history of our people. it speaks about slavery then and now. how many americans know about the-1811 slave revolt? slavery built america. when I speak of reparation for slaves as black people this is something that should never be denied. why are the current politicians having a problem with reparation? why is there no slave monument in america? my reggae asks the questions!!

Yet only a little more than $5 million—$1.25 per capita—was spent to compensate for 200 years of ignorance enforced on a whole transplanted people.

The round of a passionate man's life is in contracting debts in his passion, which his virtue obliges him to pay. He spends his time in outrage and acknowledgment, injury and reparation.

No love or pity, pardon or excuse should soften the sharp pang of reparation for the guilty man.

While the rest of the country waves the flag of Americana, we understand we are not part of that. We don't owe America anything - America owes us.

I have a scheme for stopping war. It's this - no nation is allowed to enter a war till they have paid for the last one.

A [reformed] vampire ... mostly tries to make reparation for his previous evil by doing good deeds-most commonly, apparently, going into the crime solving business.