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Top 25 Annette Gordon-Reed Quotes (2025 Update)

Annette Gordon-Reed Quote: “Contrary to popular belief, there are lots of actions on the part of Jefferson and Hemings that “speak” about the basic nature of their relationship.”

1. “Contrary to popular belief, there are lots of actions on the part of Jefferson and Hemings that “speak” about the basic nature of their relationship.”

— Annette Gordon-Reed

Annette Gordon-Reed Quote: “White supremacy does not demand deep conviction. Ruthless self-interest, not sincere belief, is the signature feature of the doctrine. It finds its greatest expression, and most devastating effect, in the determination to state, live by, and act on the basis of ideas one knows are untrue when doing so will yield important benefits and privileges that one does not care to relinquish.”

2. “White supremacy does not demand deep conviction. Ruthless self-interest, not sincere belief, is the signature feature of the doctrine. It finds its greatest expression, and most devastating effect, in the determination to state, live by, and act on the basis of ideas one knows are untrue when doing so will yield important benefits and privileges that one does not care to relinquish.”

— Annette Gordon-Reed

Annette Gordon-Reed Quote: “I find it more than a little disingenuous to act as if this were something that set Jefferson apart from all mankind.”

3. “I find it more than a little disingenuous to act as if this were something that set Jefferson apart from all mankind.”

— Annette Gordon-Reed

Annette Gordon-Reed Quote: “I do believe that actions often speak louder than words.”

4. “I do believe that actions often speak louder than words.”

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Annette Gordon-Reed Quote: “Laws are sometimes put on the books not for purposes of strict enforcement but as statements about the community’s values.”

5. “Laws are sometimes put on the books not for purposes of strict enforcement but as statements about the community’s values.”

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Annette Gordon-Reed Quote: “I am enormously pleased to become a part of the Harvard community once again. I look forward to working with the students and faculty members at the Law School and in the History Department, and to experiencing the rich interdisciplinary environment at the Radcliffe Institute.”

6. “I am enormously pleased to become a part of the Harvard community once again. I look forward to working with the students and faculty members at the Law School and in the History Department, and to experiencing the rich interdisciplinary environment at the Radcliffe Institute.”

— Annette Gordon-Reed

Annette Gordon-Reed Quote: “Inventing the rules of slavery, in 1662, Virginians decided to adopt the Roman rule partus sequitur ventrem, which says that you were what your mother was. 14.”

7. “Inventing the rules of slavery, in 1662, Virginians decided to adopt the Roman rule partus sequitur ventrem, which says that you were what your mother was. 14.”

— Annette Gordon-Reed

Annette Gordon-Reed Quote: “Even white males who owned no slaves could contribute to the problem by producing, with enslaved black women, children who would be born free, thus destroying a critical component of the master’s property right: the ability to capture the value of the “increase” when female slaves gave birth.”

8. “Even white males who owned no slaves could contribute to the problem by producing, with enslaved black women, children who would be born free, thus destroying a critical component of the master’s property right: the ability to capture the value of the “increase” when female slaves gave birth.”

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Annette Gordon-Reed Quote: “Founder’s Chic: Our Reverence for the Founding Fathers Has Gotten out of Hand,” Atlantic Monthly, Sept. 2003.”

9. “Founder’s Chic: Our Reverence for the Founding Fathers Has Gotten out of Hand,” Atlantic Monthly, Sept. 2003.”

— Annette Gordon-Reed

Annette Gordon-Reed Quote: “Yet we would never expect law and even extreme social opprobrium to remove from a population jealousy, hatred, greed, sympathy, mirth, possessiveness – the entire palette of human emotions.”

10. “Yet we would never expect law and even extreme social opprobrium to remove from a population jealousy, hatred, greed, sympathy, mirth, possessiveness – the entire palette of human emotions.”

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Annette Gordon-Reed Quote: “History is not just about the things we like or the people we want to love and admire – a fantasy date with our favorite dead person.”

11. “History is not just about the things we like or the people we want to love and admire – a fantasy date with our favorite dead person.”

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Annette Gordon-Reed Quote: “Of great importance, as I have said in another context, the image of Texas has a gender and a race: “Texas is a White man.”

12. “Of great importance, as I have said in another context, the image of Texas has a gender and a race: “Texas is a White man.”

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Annette Gordon-Reed Quote: “History is always being revised, as new information, comes to light and when different people see known documents and have their own responses to them, shaped by their individual experiences.”

13. “History is always being revised, as new information, comes to light and when different people see known documents and have their own responses to them, shaped by their individual experiences.”

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Annette Gordon-Reed Quote: “Calling such people “mulattoes,” from the Spanish word meaning “mule,” insinuated that blacks and whites, though related, were close to being separate species, as a mule is the offspring of a horse and a donkey.”

14. “Calling such people “mulattoes,” from the Spanish word meaning “mule,” insinuated that blacks and whites, though related, were close to being separate species, as a mule is the offspring of a horse and a donkey.”

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Annette Gordon-Reed Quote: “Can we fairly say that the strength of convictions that existed during this time would have been weaker than the zeal and fervor of abolitionists who had won their struggle by the time Madison Hemings was interviewed in 1873?”

15. “Can we fairly say that the strength of convictions that existed during this time would have been weaker than the zeal and fervor of abolitionists who had won their struggle by the time Madison Hemings was interviewed in 1873?”

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Annette Gordon-Reed Quote: “I get the distinct impression that the prominence of Parker’s husband and son shaped the presentation of how she ended up as part of the Comanche community in the first place. Parker’s life is judged by the men to whom she was attached: a powerful and important husband and a powerful and important son. That she was kidnapped is fine because she married well.”

16. “I get the distinct impression that the prominence of Parker’s husband and son shaped the presentation of how she ended up as part of the Comanche community in the first place. Parker’s life is judged by the men to whom she was attached: a powerful and important husband and a powerful and important son. That she was kidnapped is fine because she married well.”

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Annette Gordon-Reed Quote: “The law might say I could go to a school or into a store. But it could not ensure that I would be welcome when I came to these places.”

17. “The law might say I could go to a school or into a store. But it could not ensure that I would be welcome when I came to these places.”

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Annette Gordon-Reed Quote: “I don’t adhere to the idea that you don’t make moral judgments. I think history is a moral profession. We don’t just look back and say, oh, and here is how they slaughtered the innocents, and go move on.”

18. “I don’t adhere to the idea that you don’t make moral judgments. I think history is a moral profession. We don’t just look back and say, oh, and here is how they slaughtered the innocents, and go move on.”

— Annette Gordon-Reed

Annette Gordon-Reed Quote: “Because slavery in the United States was racially based, it was easy to graft the legally imposed incapacities of slavery onto Black people as a group, making incapacity an inherent feature of the race.”

19. “Because slavery in the United States was racially based, it was easy to graft the legally imposed incapacities of slavery onto Black people as a group, making incapacity an inherent feature of the race.”

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Annette Gordon-Reed Quote: “Land taken from Native peoples in Texas was then cleared by enslaved people, who were then put to work planting, tending, and harvesting crops.”

20. “Land taken from Native peoples in Texas was then cleared by enslaved people, who were then put to work planting, tending, and harvesting crops.”

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Annette Gordon-Reed Quote: “Some have cited race and religion as the deciding factors, allowing men who jealously guarded their liberty to obliterate the liberty of others who were of a different color and different faiths.”

21. “Some have cited race and religion as the deciding factors, allowing men who jealously guarded their liberty to obliterate the liberty of others who were of a different color and different faiths.”

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Annette Gordon-Reed Quote: “Empowered Black people made the intangible benefits derived from Whiteness less valuable.”

22. “Empowered Black people made the intangible benefits derived from Whiteness less valuable.”

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Annette Gordon-Reed Quote: “Being powerful and successful on earth through evildoing was not a true mark of superiority.”

23. “Being powerful and successful on earth through evildoing was not a true mark of superiority.”

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Annette Gordon-Reed Quote: “Love does not require taking an uncritical stance toward the object of one’s affections.”

24. “Love does not require taking an uncritical stance toward the object of one’s affections.”

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Annette Gordon-Reed Quote: “The truth of Voltaire’s observation offers itself perpetually,” he told Bellini, that every man in Europe “must be either the hammer or the anvil.”

25. “The truth of Voltaire’s observation offers itself perpetually,” he told Bellini, that every man in Europe “must be either the hammer or the anvil.”

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Annette Gordon-Reed Quote: “Even if Africans chose to adopt the mores of the English, they could never overcome the powerful view that the differences between the groups were elemental and largely insurmountable.”

26. “Even if Africans chose to adopt the mores of the English, they could never overcome the powerful view that the differences between the groups were elemental and largely insurmountable.”

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Annette Gordon-Reed Quote: “People want the individuals from the past they admire to be “right” on the question of race – no matter how wrong they actually were – so that admiring such people poses no problem. The difficulty is that not many European-Americans in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries were what we would consider to be “right” on the question of race, which, at a minimum, requires believing in the equal humanity of African Americans.”

27. “People want the individuals from the past they admire to be “right” on the question of race – no matter how wrong they actually were – so that admiring such people poses no problem. The difficulty is that not many European-Americans in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries were what we would consider to be “right” on the question of race, which, at a minimum, requires believing in the equal humanity of African Americans.”

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Annette Gordon-Reed Quote: “We would consider the nearly twelve-year-old a child. By the standards of Elizabeth’s day, twelve marked the beginning of the end of childhood for most females, but particularly for female slaves whose status as property made the designation “child” short-lived.”

28. “We would consider the nearly twelve-year-old a child. By the standards of Elizabeth’s day, twelve marked the beginning of the end of childhood for most females, but particularly for female slaves whose status as property made the designation “child” short-lived.”

— Annette Gordon-Reed

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