Groups like the NAACP, The Anti-Defamation League, NOW and GLAAD, will respond to derisive language directed at their constituents. The price paid… — John C. McGinley Copy Share Image
As African-Americans, we don't start with a blank slate, while other people may. In our position, there's always some sort of stereotype… — Xavier Woods Copy Share Image
“Programmed in self-hatred, many of us shadow-box the light of day away and chase everything meaningless the night through until we perish… — D. Allen Miller Copy Share Image
African-Americans want to be safe in their community, like any other nationality that lives in America. They don't want to be robbed.… — Ras Baraka Copy Share Image
“I had seen a photograph of Emmett Till's body just after it was pulled from the river. I had seen photographs of… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
Eight generations of African-Americans are still waiting to achieve their rights - compensation and restitution for the hundreds of years during which… — Cynthia McKinney Copy Share Image
As long as white people put people of color, African Americans and Latinos, in the same dispensable bag, and look at our… — Claudette Colvin Copy Share Image
I think young people don't really know that much about the Civil Rights Movement and about the history of African Americans in… — Don Lemon Copy Share Image
Despite our founding principles and the many ways our constitution has protected individual liberties, we do, let's admit it, have a long… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
You take for example the environmental movement is a big deal in my district. You know, you might say, yeah, more African… — Keith Ellison Copy Share Image
Despite all of the civil rights gains of the past several decades, when it comes to economic opportunity, African Americans and Latinos… — Sasha Abramsky Copy Share Image
When the students were asked to identify their race on a pretest questionnaire, that simple act was sufficient to prime them with… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
One of the ongoing crises in America is institutional racism. We have a very broken criminal justice system. We live in a… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
Black Panther is a historic opportunity to be a part of something important and special, particularly at a time when African Americans… — Joe Robert Cole Copy Share Image
Unlike [Woodrow] Wilson, Louis Brandeis did not support the segregation of the federal government. He was personally courteous to African Americans. He… — Jeffrey Rosen Copy Share Image
“Has this situation made you fearful of cops?" she eventually asks. "I don't know," I say truthfully. "My uncle's a cop. I… — Angie Thomas Copy Share Image
“Another group with a vital role to play in the present crisis is the white Northern liberals. The racial issue that we… — Martin Luther King Jr Copy Share Image
“Got orders from headquarters. They makin' coffins fuh all de white folks. 'Tain't nothin' but cheap pine, but dat's better'n nothin'. Don't… — Zora Neale Hurston Copy Share Image
“The next speaker, Dr. Joseph Bonds, a little rat-faced Negro with protruding teeth stained by countless plugs of chewing tobacco and wearing… — George S. Schuyler Copy Share Image
“What are you complaining about? If they don’t want you over here, why don’t you go over on Hastings Street and get… — Stephen M. Ward Copy Share Image
“The wounding legacy of segregation and growing up knowing adults who had worked for civil rights and equal opportunities for African Americans… — Chelsea Clinton Copy Share Image
“You may have heard the talk of diversity, sensitivity training, and body cameras. These are all fine and applicable, but they understate… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
“There was something lacking in these ofay places of amusement or else there was something present that one didn’t find in the… — George S. Schuyler Copy Share Image
“First, I must confess that over the past few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost… — Martin Luther King Jr Copy Share Image
There is a reason that many African Americans have a healthy mistrust for law enforcement. We don't always feel protected or served… — Sterling K. Brown Copy Share Image
Let me tell you, never before in the history of this planet has anybody made the progress that African-Americans have made in… — Dick Gregory Copy Share Image
Without external pressure, things might have gone very differently. That has always been true for African Americans; the better we've been at… — Michael C Dawson Copy Share Image
I would be a president for all of the people, African- Americans, the inner cities. Devastating what's happening to our inner cities.… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
When you talk about evangelicals, don't forget that a significant proportion of the evangelical community is African American. And most African Americans… — Tony Campolo Copy Share Image
One of the great things about African-Americans is that we've always had this attitude: We make do with what we got. It… — Spike Lee Copy Share Image
“When's the election?" "Next Tuesday. Y'all niggers going to vote for me?" A slender snaggle-toothed boy waved his hand in front of… — Paul Beatty Copy Share Image
I wouldn't be surprised to see a lot of guns going off, you know, guns held by white men acting as vigilantes,… — Allan Nairn Copy Share Image
“How's that training coming along, Griff? Good old Max says you're a natural." Turner frowned. Any time a white man asked you… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
When no other schools in the Southeastern Conference or the former Southwestern Conference would award them athletic scholarships, African Americans had been… — Solomon Ortiz Copy Share Image
Out of 30 years of Second City I was probably the third African-American with the main stage cast. I was surprised when… — Tim Meadows Copy Share Image
“Americans are generally incapable of perceiving class differences among blacks and are quick to ascribe antisocial underclass behavior to all African Americans.” — Leon Dash Copy Share Image
“So much was lost—names, faces, ages, ethnic identities—that African Americans must do what no other ethnic group writ large must do: take… — Michael W. Twitty Copy Share Image
People know Tyler Perry, and there are standards they've come to expect from him. His brand is uplifting, and it's something a… — Michael Jai White Copy Share Image
In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, we did create Color of Change, an organization which focused on African-Americans in particular, because we… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
The large ensemble cast and the fact that it was being shot in New York, combined with a lot of strong positive… — Taye Diggs Copy Share Image
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