Condescension Quote by James Forman Jr

“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

“They wore their professional clothes like armor. They wielded their work like weapons, warding off the presumption of inferiority because they were Negro or…

— Margot Lee Shetterly

“We were three hours from Chicago, so my blackness was less of a curiosity, more of a threat. And there were the black students…

— Roxane Gay

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

— Ibram X. Kendi

“It was the lot of the Fifity-fourth to bear the brunt of the struggle against the bitter injustice of inferior pay to which black…

— Luis Fenollosa Emilio

“It was awful to be Negro and have no control over my life. It was brutal to be young and already trained to sit…

— Maya Angelou

“In Harlem, Negro policemen are feared more than whites, for they have more to prove and fewer ways to prove it”

— James Baldwin

“Black behavior—not the wrenching housing and economic discrimination—was blamed for these impoverished Black enclaves.”

— Ibram X. Kendi

“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

“Garrison kept arriving in the same racist place as his enslaving enemies—subhuman Black inferiority.”

— Ibram X. Kendi

“In any case, white people, who had robbed black people of their liberty and who profited by this theft every hour that they lived,…

— James Baldwin

“The region now entered by the police was one of traditionally evil repute, substantially unknown and untraversed by white men.”

— H.P. Lovecraft