President McKinley approved a Resolution of Congress, April 20, 1898: "Whereas the abhorrent conditions which have existed for more than three years in the island of Cuba, so near our own borders, have shocked the moral sense of the people of the United States, have been a disgrace to Christian civilization ..."
Sojourner Truth, Harriet Tubman, Anna Murray-Douglass, Mary Ellen Pleasant, Clara Brown, Biddy Mason, Maggie Lena Walker, Anne Malone, Madam C.J. Walker
Past and Present of Wyandot County, Ohio: a record of settlement (1913): "At Pipetown was a considerable body of Delawares ... At this place Stewart stopped, but as the Indians were preparing for a great dance they paid but little attention to him ... Stewart took out his hymn book and began to sing."
Booker T. Washington stated: "Anyone can seek a job, but it requires a person of rare ability to create a job ... What we should do in our schools is to turn out fewer job seekers and more job creators ... At the bottom ... there must be for our race, as for all races ... economic prosperity, economic independence ... Political independence disappears without economic independence."
Santa Anna had previously told the U.S. Minister to Mexico, Joel R. Poinsett, 1824: "A hundred years to come my people will not be fit for liberty. They do not know what it is, unenlightened as they are ... A despotism is the proper government for them."
