Michael Moore Quotes

Slavery, our country's original sin, sat on a foundation codified by laws enforced by police, by slave-catchers.

I refuse to play the game of American scholars who only see genocide when it occurs for Europeans. American slavery was just as much a genocide as ever occurred in Nazi Germany.

American history is not clean.

For the white man to ask the black man if he hates him is just like the rapist asking the raped, or the wolf asking the sheep, 'Do you hate me?' The white man is in no moral position to accuse anyone else of hate! Why, when all of my ancestors are snake-bitten, and I'm snake-bitten, and I warn my children to avoid snakes, what does that snake sound like accusing me of hate-teaching?

Modern capitalist nations are the fruit of a history of slavery, genocide, violence and exploitation every bit as abhorrent as Mao's China or Stalin's Soviet Union.

America was built on an attempted genocide, anyway. Guns were completely necessary.

Think of all the hate there is in Red China, then take a look around to Selma, Alabama.

With black people, there are 50 Hitlers over the course of history.

America has been killing people on this continent since it was started. This country is not worth dying for.

'The Accursed' is very much a novel about social injustice as the consequence of the terrible, tragic division of classes - the exploitation not only of poor and immigrant workers but of their young children in factories and mills - and as the consequence of race hatred in the aftermath of the Civil War and the freeing of the slaves.

Slavery exists. It is black in the South, and white in the North.

The challenges African-Americans are facing today are rooted in the system of slavery.

No pen can give an adequate description of the all-pervading corruption produced by slavery.

The prolonged slavery of women is the darkest page in human history.

Every two, three years there is a movie about the Holocaust because they want you to remember and they want you to be reminded of what it was. When was the last time you seen a movie about slavery?

Nations sometimes flourish by denying the crimes that brought them into being. Only when the original invasion, occupation, extermination or usurpation has been safely thrust into the political unconscious can sovereignty feel secure.

Racism and injustice and violence sweep our world, bringing a tragic harvest of heartache and death.

And it also became clear that these conditions of inequality and historical injustice have given rise to a feeling of hate in the world - a deeply felt hate that cannot easily be overcome with a few good words.

The legacy of slavery comes from the sustained political, legal and economic effort to link permanently an entire group of people to poverty - and to mystify that systematic disenfranchisement by making up something called race, which could serve as a distraction.

It will probably be asked, Why not retain and incorporate the blacks into the State [instead of colonizing them]? 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 the one or the other race.

What is it in our society that encourages us to periodically to turn on each other? What is it in our society that leads us to the cycle of violence.

The enslavement of Africans [in America] built the world's strongest economy.

Slavery was once a tradition. Killing Indians like animals was once a tradition.

America is yours [Whites] today because of crime and violence.

They are God’s people, these innocents, whom you destroyed. By what right do you make them die? …. By what right to you unleash enslaving wars upon them? They lived in peace in this land before you came, in peace in their own homes. They did nothing to cause you to slaughter them wholesale …. Are you out of your souls, out of your minds?