My Thoughts On "Black History Month"

Famous Quotations Important To All Americans

Inscribed on the Jefferson Memorial in Washington DC in reference to Negro slaves:

"Nothing is more certainly written in the book of fate, than that these people are to be free.”

Thomas Jefferson's actual words:

"Nothing is more certainly written in the book of fate, than that these people are to be free; nor is it less certain that the two races, equally free, cannot live in the same government. Nature, habit, opinion has drawn indelible lines of distinction between them."

Notes on the State of Virginia Query XIV from 1781 by Thomas Jefferson:

"It will probably be asked, why not retain and incorporate the Blacks into the state, and thus save the expense of supplying, by importation of White settlers, the vacancies they will leave? Deep rooted prejudices entertained by the Whites; ten thousand recollections, by the Blacks, of the injuries they have sustained; new provocations; the real distinctions which nature has made; and many other circumstances, will divide us into parties, and produce convulsions which will probably never end but in the extermination of one or the other race. To these objections, which are political, may be added others, which are physical and moral."

Abraham Lincoln to a group of Negro community leaders on August 14th of 1862:

"Why should the people of your race be colonized, and where? Why should they leave this country? This is, perhaps, the first question for proper consideration. You and we are different races. We have between us a broader difference than exists between almost any other two races. Whether it is right or wrong I need not discuss, but this physical difference is a great disadvantage to us both, as I think your race suffer very greatly, many of them by living among us, while ours suffer from your presence. In a word, we suffer on each side. If this be admitted, it affords a reason at least why we should be separated. It is better for both, therefore, to be separated."

Nobel Peace Prize Winner Dr. Albert Schweitzer from My African Notebook:

"I have given my life to alleviate the sufferings of Africa. There is something that all White men who have lived here like I have must learn and know: that these individuals are a sub-race."

"They have neither the mental or emotional abilities to equate or share equally with White men in any functions of our civilization. I have given my life to try to bring unto them the advantages which our civilization must offer, but I have become well aware that we must retain this status: White the superior, and they the inferior."

"For whenever a White man seeks to live among them as their equals, they will destroy and devour him, and they will destroy all his work. And so for any existing relationship or any benefit to this people, let White men, from anywhere in the world, who could come to help Africa, remember that you must maintain this status: you the master and they the inferior, like children whom you would help or teach."

"Never fraternize with them as equals. Never accept them as your social equals or they will devour you. They will destroy you."