“The institution of slavery was, for a quarter millennium, the conversion of human beings into currency, into machines who existed solely for the profit of their owners, to be worked as long as the owners desired, who had no rights… — Isabel Wilkerson Copy Share Image
“That one over this is the one for the use of the white people,” Judge Amistead Jones said. “Not that I am a stickler… — Isabel Wilkerson Copy Share
“...they speak like melted butter and their children speak like footsteps on pavement...” — Isabel Wilkerson Copy Share
Many immigrants do not talk about what they endured back home. They were fleeing that world, and when they left they didn't want to… — Isabel Wilkerson Copy Share
“Many of the people who left the South never exactly sat their children down to tell them these things, tell them what happened and… — Isabel Wilkerson Copy Share
“Fifteen thousand men, women, and children gathered to watch eighteen-year-old Jesse Washington as he was burned alive in Waco, Texas, in May 1916. The… — Isabel Wilkerson Copy Share
It occurred to me that no matter where I lived, geography could not save me. — Isabel Wilkerson Copy Share
Well, I'm a daughter of the great migration as, really, the majority of African Americans that you meet in the north and west are… — Isabel Wilkerson Copy Share
There were colored and white waiting rooms everywhere, from doctor's offices to the bus stations, as people may already know. But there were actually… — Isabel Wilkerson Copy Share
“I don’t see one white person in this block selling drugs. They got the nerve to be mad at the blue-eyed devil. You don’t… — Isabel Wilkerson Copy Share
“That the Negro American has survived at all is extraordinary —a lesser people might simply have died out, as indeed others have. — DANIEL… — Isabel Wilkerson Copy Share
“The reality was that Jim Crow filtered through the economy, north and south, and pressed down on poor and working-class people of all races.” — Isabel Wilkerson Copy Share
I mean my mother migrated from Georgia -Rome, Georgia, to Washington, D.C., where she then met my father, who was a Tuskegee Airman who… — Isabel Wilkerson Copy Share
You must leave this world a better place than it would have been if you had not existed. — Isabel Wilkerson Copy Share
“County supervisors relented only after losing their case in the U.S. Supreme Court, choosing finally to reopen the schools rather than face imprisonment.” — Isabel Wilkerson Copy Share
My parents sent me to a school across town, an integrated school, where I had the chance to meet and grow up with people… — Isabel Wilkerson Copy Share
