Indians were here first - it's about time. We're way behind the African Americans and Hispanic Americans in getting politically involved, but… — Ben Nighthorse Campbell Copy Share Image
What happens is sometimes these congregations will still have the white style of worship, even though they're mixed, because folks are willing… — Michael Emerson Copy Share Image
Everything African-Americans - every freedom they have obtained - came from Republicans, not Democrats. All the way back to the Emancipation Proclamation,… — Rafael Cruz Copy Share Image
I think that America could not become America until it dealt with the disenfranchisement of women and African Americans in the last… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
The funny thing about cinema is, usually when they do a story that has African Americans in it, there always has to… — Jim Brown Copy Share Image
You know, being an 'other' in this world, you're walking around in a horror movie at all times, you're always on edge… — Misha Green Copy Share Image
American high school culture was impenetrable to me, and very cliquey: you had the Hispanics, the African Americans, the surfer guys and… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
It is extremely rough to follow through with my goals, but I felt a responsibility to show the world what the African… — Ida B. Wells Copy Share Image
“It is because of religious dogma, (black health care professional Thelma) Delgado says, that young African Americans believe "God will make a… — Sikivu Hutchinson in Moral Combat Black Atheists Gender Politics and the Values Wars Copy Share Image
My sister is a good story of resiliency. She had a full ride at UC Davis, but she left school to go… — Chili Davis Copy Share Image
“Far too often, historians treat African Americans as if white segregationists had succeeded, as if blacks lived in their own separate world,… — Shane White Copy Share Image
Let's say hypothetically, knowing what we know now about public policy, that we could close the education gap so that it was… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“Just as African Americans had learned that they did not have enough strength to make good the promises of emancipation, working people… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
My mom is a nurse; my dad is a pediatrician. They were born in the 1940s, and they were both inspired to… — Jake Tapper Copy Share Image
“This is a point with which Pritchard, at the Critical Flame, agrees, writing that "as far as mainstream literary culture is concerned,… — Daniel Pritchard Copy Share Image
“Alabama in 1927 alone, 27,701 men were arrested on misdemeanor charges and offered for sale by county sheriffs. In Blackmon’s estimation, “roughly… — Ian Haney López Copy Share Image
“All over the world there are enormous numbers of smart, even gifted, people who harbor a passion for science. But that passion… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“The Society for the Colonization of Free People of Color of America, better known as the American Colonization Society was a group… — Captain Hank Bracker Copy Share Image
“A survey was conducted in 1995 asking the following question: “Would you close your eyes for a second, envision a drug user,… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
“1. Close Friend, someone who got yo back, yo "main nigga." 2. Rooted in blackness and the Black experience. From a middle-aged… — H. Sammy Alim and Geneva Smitherman Copy Share Image
“Streets like the one she lived on were no accident. They were the North’s lynch mobs, she thought bitterly; the method the… — Ann Petry Copy Share Image
“...(I)t can be stated that the spread of the ideology connecting Africa and black people in general with the Jews has been… — Tudor Parfitt Copy Share Image
“public statements condemning segregation, sharply worded telegrams to Washington, and meetings with White House officials—were demonstrably ineffectual. New and more dramatic measures… — Stephen M. Ward Copy Share Image
“Human Rights Watch reported in 2000 that, in seven states, African Americans constitute 80 to 90 percent of all drug offenders sent… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
I think what happened during the Great Depression was that African Americans understood that Republicans championed citizenship and voting rights but they… — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
After the Civil War, Black Mississippians had economic power, voting rights, and citizenship. They used their majority to elect African-Americans to office… — Mike Espy Copy Share Image
The Democratic Party, the mainstream media are using fear to control people and to control African Americans in particular. You cannot function… — Jason Whitlock Copy Share Image
I think it was a good and necessary thing that the American upper class diversified, and that more African-Americans and Jews and… — Ross Douthat Copy Share Image
“The ironic thing is though, at Williamson I don't have to "play it cool"--I'm cool by default because I'm one of the… — Angie Thomas Copy Share Image
I know that if a team had a derogatory name for African Americans, I would help those who helped extinguish that name.… — Mike Carey Copy Share Image
You have to admit that Trump is endlessly creative. He has insulted the disabled, the dead, the parents of the dead, women,… — Richard Cohen Copy Share Image
We as African Americans knew that if we wanted to see change, we had to step up to the plate and make… — Ruby Bridges Copy Share Image
It may be changing, but still it's the one place, that total control of an institution, that African Americans have. So sometimes,… — Michael Emerson Copy Share Image
If you think back , the Academy was doing a better job. Think about how many more African Americans were nominated.We need… — George Clooney Copy Share Image
The fact is, yes, statistically, African Americans and Latinos are getting hit harder, but it's something that we can have real solidarity… — Keith Ellison Copy Share Image
I mean it used to be, there was a time … when lynchings of African Americans were not that incredibly rare. Now… — Ben Stein Copy Share Image
All the struggles that were fought for here in the United States for African Americans, you now enjoy the privileges of. You… — Danai Gurira Copy Share Image
I do think, however, that there's a very diverse point of view in the African-American community. There's a lot of different voices… — J. C. Watts Copy Share Image
There are so many families who do not come up in a traditional household. African Americans, Latins, and, I'm sure, whites as… — Salim Akil Copy Share Image
What we forget is that African Americans made the largest contribution to America, economically, before the Civil War of any sector of… — Andrew Young Copy Share Image
