Citizenship Quote by James A. Garfield

Well, certainly one of the ironies of the success of affirmative action is that the middle class within the black community no longer lives…

— Henry Louis Gates

The black experience isn't exclusively slavery/civil rights/Obama.

— Margot Lee Shetterly

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

We incarcerate more African-American men today than were slaves in 1850.

— Marianne Williamson

Negroes aren't seeking anything which is not good for the nation as well as ourselves. In order for America to be 100 percent strong…

— Jackie Robinson

To be a slaveholder meant one had to regard the African American as inferior in every way.

— Stephen Ambrose

I don't think that the objective of the American negro is white middle-class values because what are white middle-class values?

— Malcolm X

Slavery is not the only question which comes up in this controversy. There is a far more important one to you, and that is,…

— Anonymous

The thing people have to remember is there's nothing natural about racism as it exists in America. I mean, we know this historically. We…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

A good many observers have remarked that if equality could come at once, the Negro would not be ready for it. I submit that…

— Anonymous

We do not show the Negro how to overcome segregation, but we teach him how to accept it as final and just.

— Carter G. Woodson

“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