African american Quote by Claudette Colvin

A good many observers have remarked that if equality could come at once, the Negro would not be ready for it. I submit that…

— Anonymous

I do not think white America is committed to granting equality to the American Negro... this is a passionately racist country; it will continue…

— Susan Sontag

All men are created equal and all women are created equal as well, but [equality] seems much clearer when it comes to race issues.…

— Carly Simon

For as long as the power of America's diversity is diminished by acts of discrimination and violence against people just because they are black,…

— Ron Kind

What we hope to achieve is a society that doesn't value a white man because he's a white man, but also doesn't value a…

— Elizabeth Edwards

We all ought to be equal and not see discrimination based on gender, race, or sexual orientation.

— Niki Ashton

As members of the judiciary tasked with intervening to carry out the guarantee of equal protection, we ought not sit back and wish away,…

— Sonia Sotomayor

“When we let "RACE" to become the narrative in everything we do, then we'll never have an "America" of its true quality, that, "all…

— Henry Johnson Jr

Most of the things that are asked of me as a representative black person, would suggest never are we equal Americans.

— Alex Haley

Blacks as a group will never be equal while they have this situation going on, where the vast majority of children do not have…

— Amy Wax

We have to deconstruct the idea of racial superiority. We have had it for hundreds of years so it is not going to happen…

— John Barnes

It is paramount that we take control of the story behind our movement, which is that we seek equality for all Americans, no matter…

— Eric Reid