Black Quote by C. L. R. James

I learned that [Trotskyism] were no different from the Stalinists, and they expelled me, which is the typical Marxist-Leninist way of dealing with dissenters.…

— Murray Bookchin

I had a national and international reputation. I had written the history and articles. So I brought to the Trotskyist movement some international reputation.

— C. L. R. James

In my political life I spoke before leftist groups, before black activist groups that I disagreed with, to explain my position and to support…

— David Duke

I was trained within a black radical tradition that encouraged struggle within our own movements because it sharpens collective analysis - bringing us closer…

— Patrisse Cullors

I was involved with the anti-apartheid movement through my work as an artist and also through my political commitment.

— Danny Glover

I got out of the Army - in my world - I came to New York, for instance, when the civil rights movement was…

— James Earl Jones

I marched back then - I was in a civil-rights musical, Fly Blackbird, and we met Martin Luther King.

— George Takei

Well into the 20th century, black people spoke of their flight from Mississippi in much the same manner as their runagate ancestors had.

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

What had begun as a movement to free all black people from racist oppression became a movement with its primary goal the establishment of…

— Bell Hooks

This 1965. We went to trial on our city. We were obviously borrowing tactics and strategy from the Black freedom movement, and we were…

— Bill Ayers

I've been in movement work since I was 16 years old. Black Lives Matter becomes an important part of the story, but it's not…

— Patrisse Cullors

I didn't always value the ways black people talked. I thought, in order to make art out of it, you had to change it.

— August Wilson