American history Quote by Charles Abrams

So as soon as the land was worth something and there was money in the bank, all of a sudden everybody got interested in…

— Neil Abercrombie

“The Nuremberg judges added illegal hanging atrocities to violent Hitlerian racist ferocities.”

— Saiom Shriver

It is obvious today that America has defaulted on this promissory note insofar as her citizens of color are concerned. Instead of honoring this…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Individuals who have been wronged by unlawful racial discrimination should be made whole; but under our Constitution there can be no such thing as…

— Antonin Scalia

“The crime of the Nuremberg Laws was a national crime; it violated national, constitutional rights and liberties, but it was of no concern to…

— Hannah Arendt

“the discrimination was ignored or discounted, and the fiscal habits of Black people were blamed for the growing fiscal inequities and segregation created by…

— Ibram X. Kendi

“New laws, new restrictions, new regulations, were put in place regularly. The purpose was always to crush, to destroy, not to aid. They were…

— Barbara Morgenroth

“Frank claimed that law was meant to serve the race, and so what seemed good for the race was therefore the law. With arguments…

— Timothy Snyder

“By treating blacks as inferior, such policies were an affront to their dignity. This would be true even if these policies had not been…

— John Corvino

“the black folks say that only colored boys are sent to jail, and they not because they are guilty, but because the State needs…

— W.E.B. Du Bois

America has given the Negro people a bad check, a check which has come back marked 'insufficient funds.'

— Martin Luther King, Jr

“Law had no purpose beyond the codification of a Führer’s momentary intuitions about the good of his race.”

— Timothy Snyder