Conspiracy theory Quote by Ibram X. Kendi

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

— Angie Thomas

“the long and bitter political struggle in which he had engaged against slavery had not prepared Mr. Douglass to take up the equally difficult…

— Booker T. Washington

“The precise ancestry of a black drug dealer or cop killer is irrelevant. His blackness predicts and explains his crime. He reinforces the racist…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

“At an 1870 Anti-Slavery Society convention, Frederick Douglass proclaimed, 'I bow to no priests either of faith or of unfaith. I claim as against…

— Sikivu Hutchinson in Moral Combat Black Atheists Gender Politics and the Values Wars

“Summing up Grant’s career, Frederick Douglass wrote: “In him the Negro found a protector, the Indian a friend, a vanquished foe a brother, an…

— Ron Chernow

“considering how thorough-going was the capture of the minds of the Blacks, it is really not surprising that so many Negro scholars still faithfully…

— Chancellor Williams

“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

Up through and including Lincoln, American politicians nursed a fantasy of repatriating blacks to Africa.

— Ned Sublette

“The argument is that Black History Month dwells too much on the downside of white America's relationship to its brothers of African heritage, slavery…

— Matt Taibbi

“What had happened was that the formal pattern of black-and-white, mistress-and-servant, had been broken by the personal relation; and when a white man in…

— Doris Lessing

“Conspiracy theories tend to depend on conspirators who are unduly evil with genocide or world domination as a motive,”

— Oscar Auliq-Ice

“One of the greatest paradoxes of the Black Power movement was that it talked unceasingly about not imitating the values of white society, but…

— Martin Luther King Jr