Absent Quote by Condoleezza Rice

I don't believe for a minute anybody allowed people to suffer because they are African Americans.

— Condoleezza Rice

One principle I've been fighting for that doesn't endear me to a lot of people is that black people can be just as complicated…

— Henry Louis Gates

Black patients were treated much later in their disease process. They were often not given the same kind of pain management that white patients…

— Rebecca Skloot

“Those studies showed that White Americans consistently received more help than Black Americans. The only harm done to Black Americans in those studies was…

— Mahzarin R. Banaji

The same thing that Uncle Tom did on the plantation before [Abe] Lincoln issued the so-called Emancipation Proclamation.I have no thinking on the matter.…

— Malcolm X

Black people are experiencing a systemic disadvantage, and it goes back to slavery, which was not that long ago.

— Justin Simien

No one should advocate any peaceful suffering to black people, unless the black - white man is going to practice the same kind of…

— Malcolm X

Without external pressure, things might have gone very differently. That has always been true for African Americans; the better we've been at raising international…

— Michael C Dawson

That's one of the beauties, I think, of African American life. There was this thing called slavery and adjustments were made. It literally destroyed…

— John Edgar Wideman

Black people have always been more than our pain. The joy is so much a part of how we have survived and thrived.

— DeRay Mckesson

The conditions that we are suffering force us to address the real issues that affect the life and well-being of the majority of our…

— Louis Farrakhan

African-Americans are being disproportionately affected by, you know, the kind of misuse and abuse of power.

— Ras Baraka