Democracy Quote by Hillary Rodham Clinton

“Every period of racial progress in this country is followed by a period of retrenchment. That’s what the 2016 election was about.”

— Hillary Rodham Clinton

“Race is neither an essence nor an illusion, but rather an ongoing, contradictory, self-reinforcing process subject to the macro forces of social and political…

— Ian F. Haney López

This is how the great post-partisan, post-racial, New Politics presidency ends - not with a bang, not with a whimper, but with a desperate…

— Charles Krauthammer

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

— Mat Johnson

“WHITE NATIONALISTS & BLACK LIVES MATTER: The harder you swing the pendulum one way, the more violently it will swing back.”

— A.E. Samaan

“This is not to portray race as simply one among many issues, each with equal weight; instead, race has been the principal weapon in…

— Ian Haney López

“Because of racism, he can't govern effectively' is not a great argument for re-election.”

— James Taranto

“In the midst of a national reckoning on race relations in America something extraordinary is happening. We are building a winning edge against divisiveness and…

— Germany Kent

“until the last quarter of the twentieth century, racially explicit policies of federal, state, and local governments defined where whites and African Americans should…

— Richard Rothstein

Critical Race Theory offers a critique of how law and certain law reform strategies misunderstand the actual operation of life-shortening state violence, and how…

— Dean Spade

Election days come and go. But the struggle of the people to create a government which represents all of us and not just the…

— Bernie Sanders

“But race in the United States is not a tidy matter. Only three of the submitted pieces explicitly referenced the future. Most of them…

— Jesmyn Ward