Black Quote by Ann Coulter

“Members of Congress, outraged by the events at Selma, forty times interrupted his address with applause. Johnson closed by raising his thumbs, fists clenched,…

— James T. Patterson

“South Carolina authorities reprimanded Bryan. They wanted evangelists preaching a racist Christianity for submission, not an antiracist Christianity for liberation.20 Hugh”

— Ibram X. Kendi

“Wallace, Goldwater, and Nixon recognized and sought to take advantage of existing bigotry in the voting public, bigotry they did not create but which…

— Ian Haney López

Jim Jones started out as a civil rights crusader in Indianapolis. As a young preacher in the mid-50s, he used members of his congregation…

— Julia Scheeres

“Before the president spoke, George Zimmerman was arguably the most reviled man in America. After the president spoke, Zimmerman became the patron saint of…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

“The victim had been John Lewis, the theology student. He had been attacked by thugs in a white restroom in Rock Hill, South Carolina.”

— Ken Follett

Jim Jones wanted his people to believe the establishment was trying to kill him because whites were threatened by his message of racial equality.…

— Julia Scheeres

“Following the July 1919 race riot in Washington, DC, Johnson investigated and offered this assessment of how and why peace was restored. “The Negroes…

— Nicholas Johnson

“Republicans, white and black, heaped scorn upon “respectables” who did not participate directly in the violence but “could not stop their sons from murdering…

— Eric Foner

“If there was a single event that galvanized conservative donors to try to wrest control of higher education in America, it might have been…

— Jane Mayer

“I remember it was a quiet, heat-hushed evening. Walking with Mrs. McDonald up a dusty, unpaved road toward her modest home, I asked, "Where…

— Derrick Bell

You want to shut up every Negro who has the courage to stand up and fight for the rights of his people, for the…

— Paul Robeson