Tao Te Ching

“Johnson vetoed bills to help Negroes; he made it easy for Confederate states to come back into the Union without guaranteeing equal rights to blacks... made the freed slaves like serfs, still working the plantations [with] labor contracts they could not break under penalty of prison... provided that the courts could assign black children to forced labor with punishment for runaways.”

— Howard Zinn 1922 – 2010 CE
Historian of the oppressed and defeated

from A People's History of the United States​