Quote by James Baldwin

“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

“As the historian David Krugler explains, “African Americans were not so much rioting as fighting back, counterattacking, repelling violence; above all, resisting.”79”

— James Forman Jr

“Every February, my classmates and I were herded into assemblies for a ritual review of the Civil Rights Movement. Our teachers urged us toward…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

“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

“Despite the strides America has made in the civil rights movement, eradicating Jim Crow laws, teaching tolerance, and electing an African-American president, racial inequality…

— Lisa Bloom

“As far as i was concerned, the police in the Black communities were nothing but a foreign, occupying army, beating, torturing, and murdering people…

— Assata Shakur

When we hear men are the greater victims of crime, we tend to say, 'Well, it's men hurting other men.' When we hear that…

— Warren Farrell

“legal violence by our own government poses a greater threat to the future of this country—and certainly to individual black men—than illegal violence by…

— Paul Butler

Blacks who lack a proper killing rage are merely victims.

— bell hooks

“There's more to blackness than bludgeoning people with memories of past atrocities and injustices or the discussion of how difficult it is to be…

— Touré