Black Activist Quotes

In my political life I spoke before leftist groups, before black activist groups that I disagreed with, to explain my position and…

— David Duke

It is not a new tactic for people to use any avenue they can to silence black activists.

— DeRay Mckesson

The South actually has a very strong tradition of activism. The civil rights movement came from down here! It was black activists…

— John Darnielle

“THESE MANIFESTATIONS OF BACKLASH—against family breakup, illegitimacy, welfare, crime, riots, black activists, anti-war demonstrators, long-haired hippies, government programs that favored minorities, elitists,…

— James T. Patterson

“In a post-Ferguson world, young black activists were eager to work outside the system. “I voted for Barack Obama twice,” Tef Poe…

— Wesley Lowery

For a black activist, for an activist of all walks of life, the Internet has become this kind of meeting place where…

— Franchesca Ramsey

I think overtly political novels - those that never transcend or contest their author's conscious intentions and prejudices - are problematic. This…

— Pankaj Mishra

“[W]hat is historically new is the alliance with the cultural left. Back in the 1960s, many economically minded New Deal liberals and…

— Kim R. Holmes

“As an Asian American woman within black radical circles, Grace surely was anomalous, but this raised no significant concerns or barriers to…

— Stephen M. Ward

“Equal protection under the law is not a hard principle to convince Americans of. The difficulty comes in persuading them that it…

— Mark Lilla