Bill of rights Quote by Claudette Colvin

Quite frankly, black folks have always been at the core of what it's meant to make this nation human.

— Alicia Garza

Blacks have no rights - in fact they were three - fifths human according to the constitution to give slave owners more voting rights.…

— Noam Chomsky

The Constitution they wrote was designed to protect the rights of white, male citizens. As there were no black Founding Fathers, there were no…

— Shirley Chisholm

I maintain that every civil rights bill in this country was passed for white people, not for black people.

— Stokely Carmichael

It comes down to this: black people were stripped of our identities when we were brought here, and it's been a quest since then…

— Spike Lee

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

A lot of the time, black people, we don't introduce ourselves as black.

— Jessica Williams

Twenty-five, 30 years ago, the barometer of human rights in the United States were black people. That is no longer true. The barometer for…

— Bayard Rustin

The Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the Bill of Rights were all written by affluent white males, but to discuss them in any…

— Russell Freedman

The very rights that we supposedly won for African Americans in the civil rights movement no longer exist for those labeled felons. That's why…

— Michelle Alexander

The history of black America was from slavery, oppression, civil rights, and you felt kind of isolated as an entity in our country.

— Rza