America Quote by Fannie Lou Hamer

I mean we just simply can't stand for the systemic racism, social injustice and police brutality against the black community anymore. And it's really…

— Erik Spoelstra

When you're Black in the United States, you grudgingly grow accustomed to having people deny that your existence is integral to everything that makes…

— Jonathan Capehart

There's a class divide in black America that doesn't seem to trouble black Americans so much, but whites use it and exploit it. The…

— Darryl Pinckney

Black people are the only segment in American society that is defined by its weakest elements. Every other segment is defined by its highest…

— Jewell Jackson McCabe

Most of the things that are asked of me as a representative black person, would suggest never are we equal Americans.

— Alex Haley

“Segregation has it all wrong. We should be protected from the people who will leave us in the end, from all the people who…

— Lauren Oliver

Sometimes black people really want to hold onto our oppression - 'This is ours! This belongs to us.' You can't just talk about equality…

— Wanda Sykes

America was built on segregation. It's gonna stay segregated until everyone's equal, and that ain't gonna happen when it's a capitalistic society.

— MC Ren

We have a tendency in this country that when we say Black it automatically means Black Americans. But that's a big mistake, and that…

— Irene Cara

Sadly, black people disassociate ourselves from the things which make us who we are, identifying them as lesser, or inferior. It's a form of…

— Nate Parker

“We can move in that direction as a country, in greater polarization - black people amongst blacks, and white amongst whites, filled with hatred…

— Robert F. Kennedy

What is our greatest enemy? Segregation.

— Major Owens