The plunder of black communities is not a bump along the…

“The institution of slavery was, for a quarter millennium, the conversion of human beings into currency, into machines who existed solely for the profit…

— Isabel Wilkerson

“Black-on-black crime’ is jargon, violence to language, which vanishes the men who engineered the covenants, who fixed the loans, who planned the projects, who…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

“For African Americans, unfreedom is the historical norm. Enslavement lasted for nearly 250 years. The 150 years that followed have encompassed debt peonage, convict…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

So, I would appeal to my fellow Americans by saying, the only real road to progress for free people is through the process of…

— Lyndon B. Johnson

“Those who speak of our rights as if they were privileges have as their objective the plunder of our property, and our eventual enslavement.”

— Joseph Befumo

How could they say that my religion, Islam was a 'race hate' religion after all the plunder and enslavement and domination of my people…

— Muhammad Ali

“The Jim Crow South,” writes Ira Katznelson, a history and political science professor at Columbia, “was the one collaborator America’s democracy could not do…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

Two hundred fifty years of slavery. Ninety years of Jim Crow. Sixty years of separate but equal. Thirty-five years of racist housing policy. Until…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

[Barack Obama] grew up in Hawaii, far, far removed from the most, you know, sort of violent, you know, tendencies of Jim Crow and…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

For nearly a century and a half, this country deluded itself into thinking that its greatest calamity, the Civil War, had nothing to do…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

“Enslavement was not merely the antiseptic borrowing of labor -- it is not so easy to get a human being to commit their body…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

“Every Trump voter is certainly not a white supremacist, just as every white person in the Jim Crow South was not a white supremacist.…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

“In the 1920s, Jim Crow Mississippi was, in all facets of society, a kleptocracy.”

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

“Never forget that for 250 years black people were born into chains—whole generations followed by more generations who knew nothing but chains. You must…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

“I know that “gentrification” is but a more pleasing name for white supremacy, is the interest on enslavement, the interest on Jim Crow, the…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates