African american history Quote by Douglas A. Blackmon

“The civil rights generation is exiting the American stage—not in a haze of nostalgia but in a cloud of gloom, troubled by the persistence…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

How blind to believe the civil rights movement ever ended. The civil rights movement never ends, and it never will. It has been marching…

— Glenn Beck

“When it comes to the Civil War, all of our popular understanding, our popular history and culture, our great films, the subtext of our…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

I think one of the tragedies of the civil rights movement was because the civil rights movement became so court-focused, I think that there…

— Barack Obama

Nothing will turn you into a Civil War buff like five years of reading. Some of the letters that people wrote from that time…

— George Saunders

I didn't know enough about the Civil War or its lingering effects as we all should. It's really easy to think that the Civil…

— Bryce Pinkham

And to me, that's why the civil rights era is about the future, not about the past, because it's great lessons of how citizens…

— Taylor Branch

America certainly has made extraordinary progress. The collective unconscious of the nation has certainly shifted as a result of the civil rights movement and…

— Michael Eric Dyson

“For realists, the true story of the Civil War illuminates the problem of ostensibly sober-minded compromise with powerful, and intractable, evil. For radicals, the…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

We've gone thorough religious wars and civil wars. America has gone through slavery, we've all gone through two world wars, segregation. Ultimately it's been…

— Michael Scheuer

“And now the lies of the Civil War and the lies of these post-racial years began to resonate with each other, and I could…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

Many thought that the abolition of slavery, the end of Jim Crow, and the legislative progress of the Civil Rights Era, among other watershed…

— Opal Tometi