Goals Quote by Derrick Bell

The War on Drugs, cloaked in race-neutral language, offered whites opposed to racial reform a unique opportunity to express their hostility toward blacks and…

— Michelle Alexander

“The more antiracist W. E. B. Du Bois became, the more he realized that trying to persuade powerful racists was a waste of time,…

— Ibram X. Kendi

“Segregation laws were proposed as part of a deliberate effort to drive a wedge between poor whites and African Americans. These discriminatory barriers were…

— Michelle Alexander

“Regrettably, I paid far less attention to all those students less able to overcome the hostility and the sense of alienation they faced in…

— Derrick Bell

“History seemed to repeat itself. Just as the white elite had successfully driven a wedge between poor whites and blacks following Bacon's Rebellion by…

— Michelle Alexander

“There was a Race Relations Act, supported by socialists and conservatives alike, which made the incitement of racial hatred a crime but there was…

— Joseph Pearce

“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

“One of the greatest paradoxes of the Black Power movement was that it talked unceasingly about not imitating the values of white society, but…

— Martin Luther King Jr

“Curing America’s racial pathology couldn’t be done with good intentions or presidential elections.”

— Mat Johnson

There was a resistance movement in the white community, and there was a determined civil rights movement by our neighbors and friends in the…

— Jeff Sessions

“Sometimes, in periods of oppression and mass insanity, the most decisive form of resistance is simply the decision to not engage.”

— Lauren Oliver

“Whites were fools and one had constantly to fight in order not to underestimate their power and danger, because a powerful and dangerous fool…

— Sam Greenlee