Authority Quote by Jesse Lee Peterson

Blacks have no rights - in fact they were three - fifths human according to the constitution to give slave owners more voting rights.…

— Noam Chomsky

But blacks make little to no progress and, worse, the preoccupation with injustice only leaves them eternally inconsolable and cut off from their own…

— Shelby Steele

I have a long history in fighting for civil rights. I understand that many people in the African-American community may not understand that.

— Bernie Sanders

You are losing because blacks are getting their civil rights in the cities.

— David Remnick

In my judgment, the slogan "black power" and what has been associated with it has set the civil rights movement back considerably in the…

— Robert Kennedy

Blacks abandoned morals, fathers, and real belief in God.

— Jesse Lee Peterson

They [the blacks] had no rights which the white man was bound to respect.

— Roger Brooke Taney

“Blacks must learn that true freedom from poverty is available only through hard work and perseverance, not through affirmative action programs, protesting, or blind…

— Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson

The liberation of Blacks is not for Blacks only.

— Jesse Jackson

So much has to do with going beyond treating black people as cosmetic and symbolic items, as opposed to genuine personalities and human beings.…

— Cornel West

“The sober truth is that the most important civil rights battles were fought and won four decades before the Obama presidency. The black underclass…

— Jason L. Riley

The sad truth is that the civil rights movement cannot be reborn until we identify the causes of black suffering, some of them self-inflicted.…

— Henry Louis Gates