Quote by Ibram X. Kendi

“The southern whites would rather have had Negroes who stole, work for them than Negroes who knew, however dimly, the worth of their own…

— Richard Wright

“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

“The confines of enslavement were producing Black people who were intellectually, psychologically, culturally, and behaviorally different, not inferior. Benjamin”

— Ibram X. Kendi

“History seemed to repeat itself. Just as the white elite had successfully driven a wedge between poor whites and blacks following Bacon's Rebellion by…

— Michelle Alexander

White men have always controlled their wives' wages. Colored men were not able to do so until they themselves became free. Then they owned…

— Susan B. Anthony

“The tightly intertwined stories of the white working class and black Americans go back to the prehistory of the United States—and the use of…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

“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

“I also found that what the white man of the South practiced for himself, he assumed to be unthinkable in white women. They could…

— Ida B. Wells-Barnett

A black male meets a white female and they both get married. But, his privilege protects and benefits him from anything the world throws…

— Anonymous

“Segregation laws were proposed as part of a deliberate effort to drive a wedge between poor whites and African Americans. These discriminatory barriers were…

— Michelle Alexander

That which commands admiration in the white woman only hastens the degradation of the female slave.

— Patricia Hill Collins

I never cease to wonder at the amazing presumption of much of white society, assuming that they have the right to bargain with the…

— Martin Luther King, Jr