Happens Quote by Bret Stephens

I find it really unique that the black community, who has been oppressed and is still oppressed, can find a way to oppress themselves,…

— Trevante Rhodes

For people of color - especially African Americans - the idea that racist cops might frame members of their community is no abstract notion,…

— Tim Wise

Whenever black folks speak candidly about the horrors of police brutality, the default reaction in the United States isn't to start disrupting and dismantling…

— Jemele Hill

“Unfortunately, oppression does not automatically produce only meaningful struggle. It has the ability to call into being a wide range of responses between partial…

— Chinua Achebe

Many White people are not sensitive to the kind of abuse that African Americans, especially younger African Americans, receive at the hands of police…

— Bernie Sanders

I think the sad fact is, there's a long history in this country at looking at African-American as subhuman. And I think that's reflected…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

Too many of our fellow Americans have to struggle each day against the obstacles imposed by racism, history and original sin. These obstacles are…

— Conor Lamb

What we're dealing with is institutional, and unless systems are put into place that will ensure accountability, we can expect racially biased police practices…

— Michelle Alexander

In communities of color, such as Ferguson, it often feels like the police are protecting the white community from us instead of protecting our…

— W. Kamau Bell

We have to have a national conversation about how police forces should interact with the African-American community, who happens to be paying their salary,…

— William Lacy Clay, Jr

I talked to a lot of Black Lives activists in various states. What I learned is that the relationship of police departments around the…

— Bernie Sanders

We inadvertently keep oppressing Africans when we label them by an approximated color - and even when we confuse a specific socio-cultural group such…

— Jens Martin Skibsted