Quote by Attica Locke

Daily the Negro is coming more and more to look upon law and justice, not as protecting safeguards, but as sources of humiliation and…

— W. E. B. Du Bois

“The witnesses for the state, with the exception of the sheriff of Maycomb County, have presented themselves to you gentlemen, to this court, in…

— Harper Lee To Kill A Mockingbird

“the shrewdest and most powerful anti-Black criminals have legalized their criminal activities, have managed to define their crimes of slave trading and enslaving and…

— Ibram X. Kendi

“The southern whites would rather have had Negroes who stole, work for them than Negroes who knew, however dimly, the worth of their own…

— Richard Wright

It was the law that if a white man was caught trying to educate a Negro slave, he was liable to prosecution entailing a…

— John W. Campbell

There's an old saying in the black community that everybody else is protected and served but we are policed, we don't want to be…

— Benjamin Crump

“These were not idle threats. Suspected labor agents were arrested routinely whenever a trainload of African Americans left or when the fields were empty…

— Carol Anderson

“Is it possible for white America to really understand blacks’ distrust of the legal system, their fears of racial profiling and the police, without…

— Philip Dray

“One law prohibited blacks from testifying against whites in court, and carefully defined “negro” as anyone who had one nonwhite grandparent.”

— Gail Collins

The lived experience of Black people in the United States has demonstrated countless times that we are neither seen as 'law-abiding citizens' nor worthy…

— Jonathan Capehart

No defender of slavery, I concede that it has its benevolent aspects in lifting the Negro from savagery and helping prepare him for that…

— Thomas Jefferson