I come out of the environment of the Deep South, where I had seen the millstone of racial discrimination weighting down my… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
Despite what some people have said, President Bush did not want black people to die in New Orleans. However, he did hope… — Scott McClellan Copy Share Image
The government harasses everything. The government must keep a constant surveillance of all activities by black people in order to maintain their… — John Kani Copy Share Image
I think that we are all deeply, deeply committed to the liberation of black people. And so, when you put people together… — Alicia Garza Copy Share Image
If the [Vestiges] be true, the labours of sober induction are in vain; religion is a lie; human law is a mass… — Adam Sedgwick Copy Share Image
Music in the U.K. is not racialised in the same way as it is in the U.S. In the U.S.. it's more… — Kelela Copy Share Image
There is still an assumption among many people that to be black is to be lower class. In the last fifteen to… — Ayana Mathis Copy Share Image
“The official erasure of any existence before enslavement – as if black Americans did not exist before the yolk and the chains… — Bonnie Greer Copy Share Image
There is some group of Americans who are really, really curious to understand how we ended up at this point, where every… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
My struggle has allowed me to transcend that sense of shame and stigma identified with my being a Black gay man. Having… — Marlon Riggs Copy Share Image
I'm the descendant of enslaved black people in this country. You could've been born in 1820 if you were black and looked… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
I think until Britain acknowledges just how much of a presence black people had here before the Sixties, then there are certain… — David Oyelowo Copy Share Image
“Aurit argued that for the person with more power in a relationship to refuse to take seriously the unhappiness of the other,… — Adelle Waldman Copy Share Image
Jim Crow segregation was bipartisan. The refusal of women suffrage was bipartisan. The denial of the basic dignity of members of the… — Raphael Warnock Copy Share Image
Segregation was wrong when it was forced by white people, and I believe it is still wrong when it is requested by… — Coretta Scott King Copy Share Image
What I want to know is how the white man, with the blood of black people dripping off his fingers, can have… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
I love "Phenomenal Woman." The experiences she had of being African American in the U.S. - that itself is a task. I… — Serena Williams Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, as I tell my white friends, we as black people, we're never going to be successful not because of you white… — Charles Barkley Copy Share Image
Maybe divisions like that are easy for people to accept, because then you don't have to make an effort to understand people… — Burhan Sonmez Copy Share Image
“It is character that should be the sole measure of judgement in the society of thinking humanity, and nothing short of that… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Black people in America will never be free so long as they're on the white man's land. We can't be free until… — Muhammad Ali Copy Share Image
“You know what Black means? BLACK means Brave, BLACK means Leaderly, BLACK means Adventurous, BLACK means Considerate, BLACK means Kind.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“I understand we all have our differences. But while learning about history I've read about white people coming together, Jews coming together,… — Jonathan Anthony Burkett Copy Share Image