Alive Quote by Bob Beckel

The history of African-American repression in this country rose from government-sanctioned racism. Jim Crow laws were a product of bigoted state and local governments.

— Rand Paul

People talk about Jim Crow as if it's dead. Jim Crow isn't gone. It's adjusted. Look at the disproportionate sentences meted out to blacks…

— Aldis Hodge

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

What has changed since the collapse of Jim Crow has less to do with the basic structure of our society than with the language…

— Michelle Alexander

I grew up in Ohio, where civil-rights accomplishments had already begun to accelerate before Martin Luther King appeared. In hindsight, we know that many…

— Rita Dove

Racism is not just slavery and Jim Crow. It is the daily violence that is enacted on our communities each and every day we…

— Cori Bush

“More than 2 million people found themselves behind bars at the turn of the twenty-first century, and millions more were relegated to the margins…

— Michelle Alexander

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

“In American, the history of racism is taught like this: 'There was slavery and then there was Jim Crow and then there was Martin…

— Trevor Noah

The extraordinary nature of individual black achievement in formerly white domain certainly does suggest that the old Jim Crow is dead, but it doesn't…

— Michelle Alexander

By the 1960s, many of us believed that the Civil Rights Movement could eliminate racism in America during our lifetime. But despite significant progress,…

— Bill Cosby

Poor minorities live in a new age of Jim Crow, one in which the ravages of segregation, racism, poverty and dashed hopes are amplified…

— Henry Giroux