Let us look at Jim Crow for the criminal he is and what he has done to one life multiplied millions of… — Rosa Parks Copy Share Image
As described in 'The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness,' the cyclical rebirth of caste in America is… — 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
“Every Trump voter is certainly not a white supremacist, just as every white person in the Jim Crow South was not a… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
Whenever a Republican gets in office, all of a sudden progressives realize that federalism and state's rights aren't necessarily only about defending… — Jonah Goldberg Copy Share Image
“Slavery, Jim Crow, segregation: These bonded white people into a broad aristocracy united by the salient fact of unblackness.” — Ta-Nehisi Coates 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
Two hundred fifty years of slavery. Ninety years of Jim Crow. Sixty years of separate but equal. Thirty-five years of racist housing… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
“In March 1955, Powell called for a boycott of Harlem savings banks that "practice 'Jim Crow-ism' and 'economic lynching.'" He urged Abyssinian… — Manning Marable Copy Share Image
I think the important thing to understand first and foremost about Michael Jackson is that he was the international emblem of the… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
The new racism, like God, works in mysterious ways and is quite effective in maintaining white privilege. For example, instead of saying… — Eduardo Bonilla-Silva Copy Share Image
“It seems the rate of police killings now surpasses the rate of lynchings during the worst decades of the Jim Crow era.… — Jesmyn Ward 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 grew up in Ohio, where civil-rights accomplishments had already begun to accelerate before Martin Luther King appeared. In hindsight, we know… — Rita Dove Copy Share Image
You cannot be responsible for Jim Crow. You can not be responsible for racism. This is much more a problem for the… — Raoul Peck Copy Share Image
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
“Within half a century after Butler sent Charles Mallory away from Fortress Monroe empty-handed, the children of white Union and Confederate soldiers… — Edward E. Baptist Copy Share Image
“It is also clear that structural racism is beating down the black chef. It started with segregation; black chefs in the South… — Michael W. Twitty Copy Share Image
“Back there, before Jim Crow, before the invention of the Negro or the white man or the words and concepts to describe… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
“Parents and schoolteachers counsel black children that, if they ever hope to escape this system and avoid prison time, they must be… — 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
“But by leapfrogging the United States into space, the Russians turned even local racial policy into fodder for the international conflict. In… — Margot Lee Shetterly 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
“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
(F)or 50 years, the well-meaning leftist agenda has been able to do to blacks what Jim Crow and harsh discrimination could never… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
There are more African Americans under correctional control, in prison or jail, on probation or parole, than were enslaved in 1850 a… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
“The reality was that Jim Crow filtered through the economy, north and south, and pressed down on poor and working-class people of… — Isabel Wilkerson Copy Share Image
The black press, some liberal sportswriters, and even a few politicians were banging away at those Jim Crow barriers in baseball. I… — 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
“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
Liberalism and their ideas have done more to kill black folks whom they claim so much to love than the Ku Klux… — E.W. Jackson Copy Share Image
Got a New Boy swag & this here for y'all, So they gotta keep it separate like the Jim Crow laws, I'm… — New Boyz Copy Share Image
As a teenager growing up during Jim Crow, all I wanted to do was leave Mississippi. But I came back and raised… — Mike Espy Copy Share Image
We have always policed the bodies of people of color, and black people in particular. The Jim Crow South is a classic… — Robin DiAngelo 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
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
The black family survived centuries of slavery and generations of Jim Crow, but it has disintegrated in the wake of the liberals'… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
I personally pledge myself to openly counsel, aid, and abet youth, both black and white, to quarantine any Jim Crow conscription system. — A. Philip Randolph Copy Share Image
The injustices endured by black Americans at the hands of their own government have no parallel in our history, not only during… — Jim Webb Copy Share Image
We have a long, ugly history of white supremacy in this country, ranging from Jim Crow laws to keep African Americans down… — Max Boot Copy Share Image
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