Forced Quote by Bryan Stevenson

Well for one, the 13th amendment to the constitution of the US which abolished slavery - did not abolish slavery for those convicted of…

— Angela Davis

In the Constitution of the United States, Negroes are referred to as fellows although the word 'slave' is carefully avoided before the thirteenth amendment.

— W. E. B. Du Bois

So many white people don't want to talk about race; it's uncomfortable. Many reason that slavery happened more than a century ago, and people…

— Beth Macy

The First Amendment of the US Constitution ... is an eloquent repudiation of the First Commandment's prohibition of religious freedom. It is also a…

— Frank Zindler

Black history is American history. You cannot tell one story without telling the other.

— William Barr

When you say I want to talk about racial justice, that`s not the same as saying I want to do something about racial justice.

— Marco Rubio

“Since 1865, when the [Thirteenth] Amendment was passed, Black men were getting charged, set up, arrested, and convicted for the pettiest of offenses--like child…

— Amy Watkins

Everybody has told the story of black people in struggle except black people. The black people in the struggle haven't had the means to…

— DeRay Mckesson

As a matter of history, the Fourteenth Amendment was not understood to ban segregation on the basis of race.

— Cass Sunstein

I don't think a white person can write accurately and convincingly about what black people experience of oppression.

— Alice Mattison

The North has no interest in the particular Negro, but talks of justice for the whole. The South has not interest, and pretends none,…

— Zora Neale Hurston

“I know that readers truly committed to racial equality will join me on this journey of interrogating and shedding our racist ideas. But if…

— Ibram X. Kendi