Quotes About Reparations

#1. Obama's entire economic program is reparations.

Rush Limbaugh

#2. You can oppose reparations all you want, but you got to know the facts. You really, really do.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

#3. There is fear as to whether Japan, reduced to such a predicament, could ever manage to pay reparations to certain designated Allied Powers without shifting the burden upon the other Allied Powers.

Shigeru Yoshida

#4. Over the course of a fifty-year marriage, one bad year isn't very significant. Your marriage might still be there to be saved. But you'll never know if you keep indulging your hate and anger like the world owes you reparations.

Jonathan Tropper

#5. Fortunately, in President Obama, the child of an African and an American, we finally have a leader who is uniquely positioned to bridge the great reparations divide.

Henry Louis Gates

#6. When people think about reparations, they immediately think about people who've been dead for 100 years.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

#7. Our crimes, for which we are responsible: as taxpayers, for failing to provide massive reparations, for granting refuge and immunity to the perpetrators, and for allowing the terrible facts to be sunk deep in the memory hole. All of this is of great significance, as it has been in the past.

Noam Chomsky

#8. I starred in a Broadway play that was Sidney Poitier's first directing job and the cast was Lou Gossett, Cicely Tyson, Diana Ladd and I played a Jewish kid who offered himself as a slave to two Columbia University students as reparations.

David Steinberg

#9. Being black, I'm involved in the reparations movement. It's focused toward the African-American audience. We could begin to heal.

Cassandra Wilson

#10. Ralph Nader has slavery reparations on his platform, which makes me think he's not serious. If he thought he could win he wouldn't even say that.

Dave Chappelle

#11. There are considerations even before my consideration for you; reparations to be made-ties you know nothing of. If you repent of marrying, so do I.

Thomas Hardy

#12. The committee's work is not about whether or how we should pay reparations. That was never the intent nor will the payment of reparations be the outcome. This is an effort designed to involve the campus community in a discovery of the meaning of our past.

Ruth J. Simmons

#13. The capitalist system only allows us to heap up waste. I would like to propose that the trillions of money earmarked for war should be channeled to make good the damage to the environment, to make reparations to the earth.

Evo Morales

#14. If we had intellectual vigour enough to ascend from effects to causes, we would explain political, economical and social phenomena less by credit sheets, balance of trade and reparations than by our attitude towards God.

Fulton J. Sheen

#15. That was the principle of reparations to which President Truman agreed at Potsdam. And the United States will not agree to the taking from Germany of greater reparations than was provided by the Potsdam Agreement.

James F. Byrnes

#16. The great question of the seventies is, shall we surrender to our surroundings, or shall we make our peace with nature and begin to make reparations for the damage we have done to our air, to our land, and to our water?

Richard M. Nixon

#17. The country in which reparations actually happen is a very different one than the one we live in.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

#18. Five million Palestinians have not had a home for 60 years. It is amazing really: You have been paying reparations for the Holocaust for 60 years and will have to keep paying up for another 100 years. Why then is the fate of the Palestinians no issue here?

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

#19. What Obama is about, in my opinion, is he is a Global redistributionist. He's pursuing reparations but it's not racial reparations. It's global reparations for the sins and conquest of colonism.

Dinesh D'Souza

#20. The popular mocking of reparations as a harebrained scheme authored by wild-eyed lefties and intellectually unserious black nationalists is fear masquerading as laughter.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

#21. A free man will ask neither what his country can do for him nor what he can do for his country.

Milton Friedman

#22. Life gets so ridiculous, you just have to brush it off like sand and laugh. I think the laughter is good medicine for crap-itis.

Ace Antonio Hall

#23. You don't right the wrongs of past by wronging the people of the present. (character Norm Woodruff)

Phil Valentine

#24. REPARATION, n. Satisfaction that is made for a wrong and deducted from the satisfaction felt in committing it.

Ambrose Bierce

#25. The man who while he gives thinks of what he will get in return, deserves to be deceived.

Seneca The Younger

#26. REDRESS, n. Reparation without satisfaction.

Ambrose Bierce

#27. Love is the beauty; love is the truth. Love is the creative and sustaining energy of life

Debasish Mridha

#28. Mistakes from our collective past are like any other: they require intervention--a remedy--to correct. They don't erase themselves over time.

Jonathan R. Miller

#29. Kids in North Lawndale need not be confused about their prospects: Cook County's Juvenile Temporary Detention Center sits directly adjacent to the neighborhood.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

#30. I try to stay clear of karaoke because it normally involves an excess amount of drinking.

Sam Palladio