Blacks have been in the position of having to rebel since day one. It's only natural. Black people are the lowest on… — Laurence Fishburne Copy Share Image
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The Jewish background is not that far from the black groove. Blacks are downtrodden, Jews are downtrodden, therefore they have something in… — Jerry Leiber Copy Share Image
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I'm old enough to remember when there were no black quarterbacks - there were no blacks on TV. I hope my son… — Chris Rock Copy Share Image
It's depressing to see blacks wanting to dive into the mainstream of American commercial life. They come from a magnificent African culture… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
Liberals believe that they own blacks - still. They believe they're something proprietary about being black in this country, and if you… — Candace Owens Copy Share Image
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“But Palestinians do respond overwhelmingly with love. Just as the Indigenous populations of an entire hemisphere, subjected to the largest genocide in… — Omar El Akkad Copy Share Image
“It would be easy to quit if it was just about me, Khalil, that night, and that cop. It's about way more… — Angie Thomas Copy Share Image
The schemes to set up blacks in cleaning stores, gas stations, hamburger stands and fried-chicken franchises, all the low-profit, low-capital enterprises, will… — Louis O. Kelso Copy Share Image
“On Slavery: The saddest slap in the face is we have NO monument, no real statues or memorials, no special day of… — Brandi L. Bates Copy Share Image
The blacks, those magnificent examples of the African race who have conserved their racial purity by a lack of affinity with washing,… — Che Guevara Copy Share Image
The ethic of liberal individualism has so deeply permeated the psyches of blacks... of all classes that we have little support for… — bell hooks Copy Share Image
All token Blacks have the same experience. I have been pointed at as a solution to things that have not yet begun… — Leontyne Price Copy Share Image
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For the better part of two centuries, outsiders have been offering explanations that range from racist to learned-sounding - the supposed inferiority… — Adam Hochschild Copy Share Image
“Since the white man's personality is greatly distorted by segregation, and his soul is greatly scarred, he needs the love of the… — Martin Luther King Jr Copy Share Image
“She's scared, he thought. She's scared deaf, dumb, and blind. She thinks I'm going to rape her. I'm due to rape her,… — Ann Petry Copy Share Image
Why don't we hear more about and from Asians when it comes to race in America? Are Asians the new Invisible Man… — John Ridley Copy Share Image
While he was in the service, in the South and in Oklahoma, he was refused service at a couple of places where… — Eric Holder Copy Share Image
After the Civil War, when blacks fought along whites to secure freedom for all, southern states enacted Black Codes, laws that restricted… — Niger Innis Copy Share Image
All right-wing antigovernment rage in America bears a racial component, because liberalism is understood, consciously or unconsciously, as the ideology that steals… — Rick Perlstein Copy Share Image
The most valuable blacks are those in prison, those who have the warrior spirit, who had a sense of being African. They… — August Wilson Copy Share Image
I never, with my eyes, saw the mistreatment of any black person. Not once. Where we lived was all farmers. The blacks… — Phil Robertson Copy Share Image
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We must recognize that all the civil rights laws in the world are not going to solve the problem of minority underachievement.… — Richard Lamm Copy Share Image
That's the way blacks have been encouraged to think: that we got to stick together. You've got a situation today where if… — J. C. Watts Copy Share Image
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I'm really busted up over this and I'm very, very sorry to those people in the audience, the blacks, the Hispanics, whites… — Michael Richards Copy Share Image
I grew up on the north side of Chicago, in West Rogers Park, an overwhelmingly Jewish neighborhood. When I was 13, my… — Scott Turow Copy Share Image
The Afrocentric exploration of the black past only scratches the surface. A full examination of the ancestry of those who are referred… — Ishmael Reed Copy Share Image
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It's hard to pin down what it means to be an evangelical today. It's been diluted quite a bit. It is a… — Franklin Graham 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
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