Black people Quote by Ibram X. Kendi

In the course of his long, turbulent career, W. E. B. Du Bois attempted virtually every possible solution to the problem of twentieth-century racism...scholarship,…

— David Levering Lewis

“Black Americans were hardly losing any moral or cultural battles. They were being violently and nonviolently defeated in political and economic battles, as Du…

— Ibram X. Kendi

“[T]he slave went free; stood a brief moment in the sun; then moved back again toward slavery. —W.E.B Du Bois, Black Reconstruction in America…

— Michelle Alexander

“Often dismayed by but generally unflinching in the face of perpetual adversity, he [W.E.B. Du Bois] engaged the battle for equal human rights and…

— Aberjhani

Du Bois marked a great stage in the history of Negro struggles when he said that Negroes could no longer accept the subordination which…

— C. L. R. James

“For nearly six centuries, antiracist ideas have been pitted against two kinds of racist ideas: segregationist and assimilationist.”

— Ibram X. Kendi

“Added to the shock of the routine violation of their bodies was the trauma of having to relinquish their children to unknown slave-holders. [W.E.B.]…

— Aberjhani

“From the beginning, it has been a three-sided battle, a battle of antiracist ideas being pitted against two kinds of racist ideas at the…

— Ibram X. Kendi

“If there was one thing that South Carolina feared more than bad Negro government,” wrote Du Bois, “it was good Negro government.”

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

“the soon-to-be first president sounded one of the first drumbeats of supposed racial progress to drown out the passionate arguments of antiracism.10 Thomas”

— Ibram X. Kendi

I read a lot of W.E.B. Du Bois, who wrote 'The Souls of Black Folk.'

— Andre Holland

“With every Black first, the blame shifted to those Black people who failed to break away. Du Bois’s The Crisis tried to assign blame…

— Ibram X. Kendi