Since the nations founding, African Americans repeatedly have been controlled through institutions such as slavery and Jim Crow, which appear to die… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
The president is not doing well with African Americans. His popularity rating - his approval rating - with blacks: two percent. Two… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
When people try to take your culture away from you, your essence of your culture becomes stronger. It's like even in Africa.… — Gavin Friday Copy Share Image
“Our endurance and suffering made us stronger than they can imagine. We became so strong that it takes only one of our… — De philosopher DJ Kyos Copy Share Image
America is not perfect. It took a bloody civil war to free over 4 million African Americans who lived enslaved. It took… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
I don't like to do press. But I know sometimes I need to do it because every time I do there's young… — Maverick Carter Copy Share Image
It's unfortunate that [Louis] Brandeis was not able to translate or abstract his devotion to cultural pluralism and racial equality as he… — Jeffrey Rosen Copy Share Image
I think there are profound differences between the civil rights struggle for African Americans and the civil rights struggle for gay Americans. — Christopher Rice Copy Share Image
As African-Americans, people of that generation felt pretty much if they were going to see changes in the world, they had to… — Ruby Bridges Copy Share Image
Once in a while you get people that maybe because of economic reasons, or have a social network, they get attracted. But… — Michael Emerson Copy Share Image
“In 1866, Congress enforced the abolition of slavery by passing a Civil Rights Act, prohibiting actions that it deemed perpetuated the characteristics… — Richard Rothstein Copy Share Image
One consequence of racism and segregation is that many American whites know little or nothing about the daily lives of African Americans.… — James Forman, Jr Copy Share Image
“The women work because the white folks give them jobs—washing dishes and clothes and floors and windows. The women work because for… — Ann Petry Copy Share Image
Identity is very personal...identity is political. My identity is what is and it is what it's gonna be. And I don't think… — Jamilah Lemieux Copy Share Image
African Americans, in particular, saw their cumulative wealth crash. They used to have 10 cents on the dollar of the average white… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
“The truth is, white rage has undermined democracy, warped the Constitution, weakened the nation’s ability to compete economically, squandered billions of dollars… — Carol Anderson Copy Share Image
“He went on to make a series of preposterous-sounding claims—almost all of which would be borne out in the end: he would… — Joshua Green Copy Share Image
“It is due, however, to my mistress to say of her, that she did not adopt this course of treatment immediately. She… — Frederick Douglass 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
“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
“Some people cannot afford to believe that this country isn’t that bad, that as Hillary Clinton said, “America is great because America… — Yaa Gyasi 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
“The Jim Crow South,” writes Ira Katznelson, a history and political science professor at Columbia, “was the one collaborator America’s democracy could… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
“counterparts. Although the lower-SES average is higher overall, higher-SES white men have the highest reported levels of binge drinking, of any drug… — Karl Alexander Copy Share Image
“until the last quarter of the twentieth century, racially explicit policies of federal, state, and local governments defined where whites and African… — Richard Rothstein Copy Share Image
I don't believe for a minute anybody allowed people to suffer because they are African Americans, Nobody, especially the president, would have… — Condoleezza Rice Copy Share Image
I think there is a big difference between expressing the pain and anger that many African Americans and other people of color… — Michael Nutter Copy Share Image
And when the time is right, I hope that African Americans will again look to the party of emancipation, civil liberty, and… — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
[Donald] Trump is going to appeal better to African Americans, Hispanics, and others than previous Republican candidates because he's talking about what… — Jeff Sessions Copy Share Image
Whites have more than eleven times the net worth or wealth of African Americans. They make greater salaries. Our unemployment rate is… — Randall Robinson Copy Share Image
African Americans were responsible for creating a lot of this beautiful and elaborate ironwork; we weren't just working in the cotton fields. — Philip Freelon Copy Share Image
One of the things we tell ourselves as African-Americans is if we work hard, play by the rules, we do start back… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
When black Britons draw parallels between their experiences and those of African Americans, they are not suggesting that those experiences are identical. — David Olusoga Copy Share Image
“To those who are struggling. To talk about a struggle, you're likely to forget about it. To be shown a struggle, you're… — Valerie Owens Copy Share Image
Very much like African-Americans, the history of America is taking away resources, whether it's labor or whether it's land from one racial… — Robert A. Williams, Jr Copy Share Image
“Hadar, the only time I feel black is when I look at my hands," Spencer said, spreading his fingers out in front… — Paul Beatty Copy Share Image
As you know, in this country Anglo-Americans are about 75 to 76 percent home ownership in this country, where Hispanics, African Americans… — Alphonso Jackson Copy Share Image
I'm so tired of the left trying to divide us by race. One of the things I said today in my speech,… — Bobby Jindal Copy Share Image
I do think that it's a responsibility when there are so few of us as African Americans to kind of get to… — Misty Copeland Copy Share Image
To my knowledge, no progressive educator has ever suggested that children didn't need to know the "mere facts" about the contributions of… — Sol Stern Copy Share Image
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