May you have a wonderful celebration of the birth of Jesus Christ! Please don't let His birth be hiddenhistory on His on birthday. It is all about Jesus!

"It is a horrid thought that in the 19th Century there should be found educated men, who were so weak or so ignorant, as to suppose the title to the great inalienable, God-given rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, depend upon the complexion of a human being." --Alvan Stewart, 1845

"There is a theory of prophecy which holds that prophetic voices of great clarity, and with a quality of insight equal to that of any age, are speaking all of the time." --Robert K. Greenleaf, author of "Servant Leadership"

Behold bleeding Africa, for three hundred years her bleeding side has flowed, and yet flows on, unstaunched by the humanity of the nations. Behold this accursed crime, which has crawled up with beastly impudence, and enthroned itself as one of the laws of nations -- that Christendom had a common right to plunder, burn, murder, enslave irredeemably, and make property of the inhabitants of that ill-fated continent, in and through all coming generations for their posterity." --Alvan Stewart 1845

"Institution of slavery! Institution of horse-stealing and institution of highwaymen, sound equally sensible to a just and philosophical thinker." Alvan Stewart 1845

"To acknowledge the legacies of racism is not a call to be paralyzed by guilt or anger or division. Rather honesty is the beginning of the struggle to create relationships of trust and hope and a common social good from which healing might come." --Rita Nakashima Brook