Racist policies forcing free Blacks into menial jobs were…

“New York lawmakers stripped free Blacks of the right to own property, and then they denigrated “the free negroes of the colony” as an…

— Ibram X. Kendi

“Zurara’s inaugural racist ideas, in other words, were a product of, not a producer of, Prince Henry’s racist policies concerning African slave-trading.1”

— Ibram X. Kendi

“Hate and ignorance have not driven the history of racist ideas in America. Racist policies have driven the history of racist ideas in America.”

— Ibram X. Kendi

“The vicious housing cycle had already begun. Racist policies harmed Black neighborhoods, generating racist ideas that caused people not to want to live next…

— Ibram X. Kendi

“The fact that some African Americans have experienced great success in recent years does not mean that something akin to a racial caste system…

— Michelle Alexander

Many whites, even white Southerners told me that even though it may have seemed like the blacks were being freed (by my actions) they…

— Rosa Parks

During the Jim Crow era, we know that racially targeted and racially motivated voter suppression was often blatant. Legislators adapted overtly racist policies like…

— Alex Padilla

I think that there are some people on the so-called Left who might say we have to circle our wagons around the first African…

— Cindy Sheehan

“The confines of enslavement were producing Black people who were intellectually, psychologically, culturally, and behaviorally different, not inferior. Benjamin”

— Ibram X. Kendi

“the only thing wrong with Black people is that we think something is wrong with Black people.”

— Ibram X. Kendi

“Others channeled—or were led to channel—their economic and political frustrations into racist ideas, which then led to more hatred of Black people. It”

— Ibram X. Kendi

Hollywood is so fixated on keeping it that way because it's generating the buzz, but that representation isn't right. I definitely feel like it's…

— John Boyega

We have to build our own power. We have to win every single political office we can, where we have a majority of black…

— Fannie Lou Hamer

“In any case, white people, who had robbed black people of their liberty and who profited by this theft every hour that they lived,…

— James Baldwin

I wanted to write about voodoo tradition that I feel has been very important to survival of black people here: people of the African…

— Jesmyn Ward