“Ending feudalism, ending slavery, enacting labor laws, winning universal suffrage, ending Jim Crow laws, overcoming much of the mindset and practice of… — Michael Albert Copy Share Image
During the Jim Crow era, poll taxes and literacy tests kept the African-Americans from polls. But today, felon disenfranchisement laws accomplished what… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
Poor minorities live in a new age of Jim Crow, one in which the ravages of segregation, racism, poverty and dashed hopes… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
I have much more confidence in my ability, or any president or any leader's ability, to mobilize the American people around a… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
If a person is homosexual by nature - that is, if one's sexuality is as intrinsic a part of one's identity as… — Jon Meacham Copy Share Image
In studying food, you embrace everything. Food exposes the long, complex history of the South - slavery, Jim Crow segregation, class struggle,… — Marcie Cohen Ferris Copy Share Image
“Ninety percent of those admitted to prison for drug offenses in many states were black or Latino, yet the mass incarceration of… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
In our state, I'm really proud of the fact that the ones who overturned Jim Crow in Kentucky were Republicans fighting against… — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
“The black newspaper writers were nearly unanimous in their support for integration, and so were the owners of Negro-league teams, even though… — Jonathan Eig Copy Share Image
“Atrocities, including the lynching of more than five hundred Mississippi Negroes—more than any other state—were ennobled as righteous. Lynching went unpunished, murder… — Bruce Watson Copy Share Image
“There is another, grimmer history to the filibuster, though, one that carries special relevance for me. For almost a century, the filibuster… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“Who will protect your rights better? A king, president or you? Who will protect the truth? A reporter, a labor union or… — Glenn Beck Copy Share Image
We started America with the sin of slavery that led right into the post-reconstruction period which was the greatest period of domestic… — Cory Booker Copy Share Image
Theoretically, you can make, obviously, a powerful argument that centuries of slavery, Jim Crow, discrimination are the primary cause for all those… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“Time and again politicians have betrayed the very racial and ethnic groups they belong to and claim to represent, while also being… — Tipu's Tiger 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
In a sense, mass incarceration has emerged as a far more extreme form of physical and residential segregation than Jim Crow segregation.… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
In the pioneer West Whitopias, immigration tended to be the dominant social and racial issue. In Forsyth County, Georgia, immigration is still… — Richard Benjamin Copy Share Image
There are black Christians, and black Muslims in Africa who are being slaughtered, they don't want to hear about the Jim Crow… — Mark Levin Copy Share Image
“I know that “gentrification” is but a more pleasing name for white supremacy, is the interest on enslavement, the interest on Jim… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
I'm not pessimistic, because poor people tend to bounce back. We've been through worse than this - working people been through worse… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
I don’t believe it is possible to transcend race in this country. Race is a factor in this society. The legacy of… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The welfare state has done to Black Americans what slavery (and Jim Crow and racism) could not have done. . .break up… — John Stossel Copy Share Image
As a southerner born after the epic events of the civil rights movement, I've always wondered how on earth people of good… — Jon Meacham Copy Share Image
The government can back up its tastes and beliefs with the police power. That is why it cannot be permitted tastes and… — Charles A. Murray Copy Share Image
“The fact that some African Americans have experienced great success in recent years does not mean that something akin to a racial… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
When Trump says, 'Make America great again,' he is referencing an era when people were singled out and harmed because of their… — DeRay Mckesson Copy Share Image
After reading The New Jim Crow, Michelle Alexander's stunning work of scholarship, one gains the terrible realization that, for people of color,… — David Levering Lewis Copy Share Image
Let me be clear: I support the Civil Rights Act because I overwhelmingly agree with the intent of the legislation, which was… — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
“For African Americans, unfreedom is the historical norm. Enslavement lasted for nearly 250 years. The 150 years that followed have encompassed debt… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
Those labeled felons may be denied the right to vote, are automatically excluded from juries, and may be legally discriminated against in… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
And lest we get on our high horse and think this is unique to some other place, remember that during the Crusades… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“Despite the strides America has made in the civil rights movement, eradicating Jim Crow laws, teaching tolerance, and electing an African-American president,… — Lisa Bloom Copy Share Image
“I believe that there are four institutions in American history that have shaped our approach to race and justice but remain poorly… — Bryan Stevenson Copy Share Image
Many of the old forms of discrimination that we supposedly left behind during the Jim Crow era are suddenly legal again, once… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
I can tell you as a black person in South Carolina whose grandparents grew up through Jim Crow, when you lose the… — Jaime Harrison Copy Share Image
“A generation or so after slavery ended, segregationists enacted Jim Crow laws that made it impossible for most blacks to vote in… — Patricia T. O'Conner Copy Share Image
My father joined our party because the Democrats in Jim Crow Alabama of 1952 would not register him to vote. The Republicans did. — Condoleezza Rice Copy Share Image
Jim Crow was king... and I heard a game in which Jackie Robinson was playing, and I felt pride in being alive — Lou Brock Copy Share Image
The South was very segregated. I mean, all through my childhood, long after Jim Crow was supposed to not be in existence,… — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
