George w Quote by Hugh Brogan

“I know I grew up in the time when a young man in a baggy suit and slicked-down hair stood spraddle-legged in the crossroads…

— Rick Bragg

“Rarely bothering to temper his language, Wallace made the racial subtexts of issues like busing and promiscuity clear. His strong showings in the Wisconsin…

— Craig Werner

“Donald Trump, whose signature contribution to political debate had been his relentless propagation of the lie that Barack Obama is not an American citizen,…

— James Forman Jr

“George Bush is a WASP. George Wallace may have been a white Protestant of Anglo-Saxon descent, and even rather vocal on all three points,…

— Christopher Hitchens

“In the 1920s, Jim Crow Mississippi was, in all facets of society, a kleptocracy.”

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

“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

“I suppose he represented the worst of what rural life can do to a man: he was racist, uneducated, and badly in need of…

— Reif Larsen

We should not forget that in the '60s, George Wallace's motto was 'segregation forever,' and that he did nothing to deter bombings and other…

— Coretta Scott King

“The overseer beat him, tried to starve him, wouldn't let him have any shoes, treated him so badly that he had a very intense,…

— Rosa Parks

“Walker identified and decried America’s favorite racist pastime: denying Blacks access to education and jobs and then calling their resultant impoverished state “natural.”

— Ibram X. Kendi

It was difficult to realize, 'I'm lieutenant governor.' And Brown appropriately reminded me of that.

— Gavin Newsom

“For that more ennobling narrative, as for much of American history, the fact of black people is a problem.”

— Ta-Nehisi Coates