Avoided Quote by Ida B. Wells

“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

“Every hope of the existence of church and of state, and of civilization itself, hangs upon our arduous effort to defeat the doctrine of…

— Robert Lewis Dabney

The Negroes of America had taken the President, the press and the pulpit at their word when they spoke in broad terms of freedom…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

I think that the negro should reserve the right to execute.

— Malcolm X

“The goal was organized resistance to racial subjugation, and its harassing effect was probably more potent precisely because they risked so much without either…

— Derrick Bell

“Civil disobedience, as I put it to the audience, was not the problem, despite the warnings of some that it threatened social stability, that…

— Howard Zinn

Nonviolent resistance makes it possible for the Negro to remain in the South and struggle for his rights. The Negro's problem will not be…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

“Color prejudice is at the bottom of everything. If it’s not fixed, the plight of the Negro will continue long after abolition.”

— Sue Monk Kidd

“It's both a tremendous obligation and honor to undertake the unfulfilled work of the best of our abolitionist precursors--those who did not only want…

— Dylan Rodriguez

When Negroes looked for the second phase, the realization of equality, they found that many of their white allies had quietly disappeared… To stay…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

To deny people of their human rights is to challenge their very humanity. To impose on them a wretched life of huger and deprivation…

— Nelson Mandela

“The notion that racial caste systems are necessarily predicated on a desire to harm other racial groups, and that racial hostility is the essence…

— Michelle Alexander