Administration Quote by Barack Obama

The discrimination is not made openly, but a Negro who goes to such places is informed that there are no accommodations, or he is…

— Ray Stannard Baker

We must confront our own racism. Discriminatory housing and employment policies are nothing more than institutionalised racism.

— Tariq Ramadan

“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

“If federal programs were not, even to this day, reinforcing racial isolation by disproportionately directing low-income African Americans who receive housing assistance into the…

— Richard Rothstein

The same would be true for something like Social Security, where historically, if you just read the law and the fact that it excluded…

— Barack Obama

“At the time, the Federal Housing Administration and Veterans Administration not only refused to insure mortgages for African Americans in designated white neighborhoods like…

— Richard Rothstein

“the discrimination was ignored or discounted, and the fiscal habits of Black people were blamed for the growing fiscal inequities and segregation created by…

— Ibram X. Kendi

“Black behavior—not the wrenching housing and economic discrimination—was blamed for these impoverished Black enclaves.”

— Ibram X. Kendi

For the rest of their lives, [black men] can be denied the right to vote, automatically excluded from juries, and legally discriminated against in…

— Michelle Alexander

Long before there was discrimination against blacks, there was discrimination against white southerners. When large numbers of these country people moved north during World…

— Ann Coulter

I am not going to use the federal government's authority deliberately to circumvent the natural inclination of people to live in ethnic homogeneous neighborhoods.

— Jimmy Carter

You Negroes are not willing to admit it yet, but integration will not work. Why, it is against the white man's nature to integrate…

— Malcolm X