The first Republican I knew was my father and he is still the Republican I most admire. He joined our party because… — Condoleezza Rice Copy Share Image
More than 2 million people found themselves behind bars at the turn of the twenty-first century, and millions more were relegated to… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
The plunder of black communities is not a bump along the road, but it is, in fact, the road itself that you… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
“The Quakers, or Society of Friends, taught the concept of a human family within which everyone is equal, contrary to the politics… — Don Weise 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
“This piece of land was our original sin, except we had found no baptismal rite to expunge it from our lives. That… — James Lee Burke Copy Share Image
“The Society for the Colonization of Free People of Color of America, better known as the American Colonization Society was a group… — Captain Hank Bracker Copy Share Image
So more and more black folk tend to be well-adjusted to [Barack] Obama's presidency, but does that mean they're well-adjusted to injustice?… — Cornel West 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
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
That conclusion is inescapable, given the well-established evidence that voter-ID laws don't disenfranchise minorities or reduce minority voting, and in many instances… — Edwin Meese 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
“The temptation is to insist that black men 'choose' to be criminals; the system does not make them criminals, at least not… — 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
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 Journey of Reconciliation was organized not only to devise techniques for eliminating Jim Crow in travel, but also as a training… — Bayard Rustin Copy Share Image
“Many of us like to ask ourselves, "What would I do if I was alive during slavery? Or the Jim Crow South?… — Aaron Bushnell Copy Share Image
When I look back at what I had to go through in black baseball, I can only marvel at the many black… — Jackie Robinson Copy Share Image
“This book argues that mass incarceration is, metaphorically, the New Jim Crow and that all those who care about social justice should… — Michelle Alexander 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
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
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
A fatherless boy raised in Jim Crow Texas, my dad was a tenacious autodidact, the first in his family to get a… — Thomas Chatterton Williams 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
I was raised by people who, like my father, came out of the Jim Crow South because Michigan was the place that… — John E. James Copy Share Image
