Negroes Quote by Ibram X. Kendi

“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 negroes been freed.' 'Well, I ain't.”

— Andrew Lytle

“I am very much concerned that American Negroes achieve their freedom here in the United States. But I am also concerned for their dignity,…

— James Baldwin

“Virginia lawmakers made slave patrols compulsory for non-slaveholding Whites; these groups of White citizens were charged with policing slaves, enforcing discipline, and guarding routes…

— Ibram X. Kendi

“Vagrancy laws and other laws defining activities such as "mischief" and "insulting gestures" as crimes were enforced vigorously against blacks. The aggressive enforcement of…

— Michelle Alexander

“Black behavior—not the wrenching housing and economic discrimination—was blamed for these impoverished Black enclaves.”

— Ibram X. Kendi

“The core argument of this book is that African Americans were unconstitutionally denied the means and the right to integration in middle-class neighborhoods, and…

— Richard Rothstein

“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

“It was a grand opportunity for the low whites, who had no negroes of their own to scourge. They exulted in such a chance…

— Harriet Ann Jacobs

“We jumped into a waiting bus, and two Negro laborers followed us. We did not drop any money in the slot; the Negroes took…

— Carlos Bulosan

“the discrimination was ignored or discounted, and the fiscal habits of Black people were blamed for the growing fiscal inequities and segregation created by…

— Ibram X. Kendi

“If Blacks did not violently resist, then they were cast as naturally servile. And yet, whenever they did fight, reactionary commentators, in both North…

— Ibram X. Kendi