Ability Quote by Artur Davis

“They all followed Mississippi’s example, instituting race-veiled voting restrictions, from literacy tests to poll taxes, that would purge their voting rolls of the remaining…

— Ibram X. Kendi

There was never a time you could get the majority of people in Alabama or Mississippi, or even southern Delaware, to vote to end…

— Bryan Stevenson

“History reveals that the seeds of the new system of control were planted well before the end of the Civil Rights Movement. A new…

— Michelle Alexander

“The core argument of this book is that African Americans were unconstitutionally denied the means and the right to integration in middle-class neighborhoods, and…

— Richard Rothstein

The only way that residual racist feelings could affect legislation, in my opinion, is through a lack of priorities, from not doing things.

— Anonymous

The next step has to be the necessary step. It's always to put the immigrant community and the civil rights movement ahead of partisan…

— Luis Gutierrez

“But where Lincoln’s absent hand was felt most keenly was in race relations. Black codes were passed in state after state across the South—as…

— Jay Winik

Many thought that the abolition of slavery, the end of Jim Crow, and the legislative progress of the Civil Rights Era, among other watershed…

— Opal Tometi

I hope that as Alabama continues to make progress, we remember the lessons of history.

— Kay Ivey

A law is unjust if it is inflicted on a minority that, as a result of being denied the right to vote, had no…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Race is not the stumbling block to progress it once was, in large part because the Civil Rights Act of 1964 made it illegal…

— Norah Vincent

“We’ve driven wedges between parents and children, between liberals and conservatives, between whites and ethnic groups, and between the religious and non religious. We’ve…

— Robert Goddard