Quote by Gail Collins

“Today it is perfectly legal to discriminate against criminals in nearly all the ways that it was once legal to discriminate against African Americans.”

— Michelle Alexander

“The witnesses for the state, with the exception of the sheriff of Maycomb County, have presented themselves to you gentlemen, to this court, in…

— Harper Lee To Kill A Mockingbird

“Only black people can use controversial racial terms such as “Negro.”

— Matthew Quick

The children of the white families in town were not permitted to associate with me, because my father was committing the then unpardonable crime,…

— Lee De Forest

Racial discrimination against a white is as unconstitutional as race discrimination against a black.

— William O. Douglas

“It was awful to be Negro and have no control over my life. It was brutal to be young and already trained to sit…

— Maya Angelou

In talking about the [Emmett Till murder trial], you have to repeat the atmosphere. This is Mississippi in 1955, with a long history of…

— Charles Diggs

“In any case, white people, who had robbed black people of their liberty and who profited by this theft every hour that they lived,…

— James Baldwin

“The story would be told many times in American history: Black property legally or illegally seized; the resulting Black destitution blamed on Black inferiority;”

— Ibram X. Kendi

“Whenever a Black person or group used White people as a standard of measurement, and cast another Black person or group as inferior, it…

— Ibram X. Kendi

“My grandfather said white people can't exist without speaking. He said they're all just imitations of each other, so it's like they have to…

— Jessica Anthony

“He was suggesting that all Negroes were held in a state of supreme tension between the difficult, dangerous relationship in which they stood to…

— James Baldwin