Country Quote by Clint Smith

There is an unbroken line of police violence in the United States that takes us all the way back to the days of slavery,…

— Angela Davis

When someone asks me about violence, I just find it incredible, because what it means is that the person who’s asking that question has…

— Angela Davis

There is so much history of this racist violence that simply to bring one person to justice is not going to disturb the whole…

— Angela Davis

For all of the continued awareness of systemic violence and oppression, there isn't a lot of talk about that psychological toll of racism, at…

— Tavi Gevinson

I think we have come to a place in black America, sadly from my point of view, where we have once again begun to…

— Shelby Steele

Whenever black folks speak candidly about the horrors of police brutality, the default reaction in the United States isn't to start disrupting and dismantling…

— Jemele Hill

“I suggest that those who live in the past don't want a confrontation with the present. I believe that white Americans welcome the present…

— Saul D. Alinsky

The media role in highlighting racial incidents only serves to exacerbate tension. We rarely write about racial harmony.

— Bob Beckel

This violence is so pervasive. We see it in our schools, where we have more security guards now than teachers. We see it in…

— Henry Giroux

Violence as a way of achieving racial justice is both impractical and immoral. I am not unmindful of the fact that violence often brings…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

We must all stand against both the continual, systematic, and structural racial inequities that normalize daily violence as well as against extreme acts of…

— Kimberle Williams Crenshaw

I think everyone is aware there's something wrong about the way violence is enacted against Black people in this country.

— Nia DaCosta