Children Quote by Harper Lee

“Even to-day the masses of the Negroes see all too clearly the anomalies of their position and the moral crookedness of yours. You may…

— W.E.B. Du Bois

“Images of African Americans as bad mothers, ineffective mothers, and matriarchs...conceal and justify the difficult conditions in which they work and raise children. But…

— Leith Mullings

“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

“Despite the strides America has made in the civil rights movement, eradicating Jim Crow laws, teaching tolerance, and electing an African-American president, racial inequality…

— Lisa Bloom

“The opposition to Negro education in the South was at first bitter, and showed itself in ashes, insult, and blood; for the South believed…

— W.E.B. Du Bois

“This “disorganized family life” in Black neighborhoods was caused by racial discrimination, poverty, cultural pathology, and the introduction of the matriarchal Black family during…

— Ibram X. Kendi

“...Of course there was no word in the American papers, and no one at the State Department had a clue- at least not that…

— Naomi Benaron

“I also found that what the white man of the South practiced for himself, he assumed to be unthinkable in white women. They could…

— Ida B. Wells-Barnett

“I did not lie awake at night worrying about the problems of Negroes.”

— Robert F. Kennedy

“Slave masters thought they were making a difference in black people’s lives too. Saving them from their “wild African ways.”

— Angie Thomas

They should ask their parents if it would be all right for their son or daughter to marry a Negro.

— Jesse Helms