Administration Quote by Bayard Rustin

America certainly has made extraordinary progress. The collective unconscious of the nation has certainly shifted as a result of the civil rights movement and…

— Michael Eric Dyson

I think one of the great things that I have seen happen since the rise of the movement for black lives is the growth…

— Eugene Puryear

The backlash against gains of African Americans in the Reconstruction Era was swift and severe.

— Michelle Alexander

Let me tell you, never before in the history of this planet has anybody made the progress that African-Americans have made in a 30-year…

— Dick Gregory

The sprinkling of people of color through elite institutions in the United States, due to affirmative action policies and the limited progress of middle-class…

— Michelle Alexander

It is over one hundred years since the abolition of slavery. The Negro people in the United States have taken plenty and they have…

— C. L. R. James

Black people have been qualified to be president for hundreds of years. George Washington Carver could have been president. I could go on with…

— Chris Rock

I think what happened during the Great Depression was that African Americans understood that Republicans championed citizenship and voting rights but they became impatient…

— Rand Paul

Progress has always been understood to be driven by exceptional white men. Whether it's the military victories we've achieved, the philosophical foundations that are…

— Kerry James Marshall

The thing that has made the so-called Negro in America fail, more than any other thing, is your, my, lack of knowledge concerning history.…

— Malcolm X

I think in this phase, after the Negro emerges in and from the desegregated society, then a great deal of time must be spent…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

The feelings, myths and prejudices about the Negro American which now seem so valid and real to some of our white contemporaries will take…

— Margaret Halsey