Also Quote by Jim Webb

Although black and white Americans live, work, and learn together now, there is still injustice in America.

— Kathleen Sebelius

So more and more black folk tend to be well-adjusted to [Barack] Obama's presidency, but does that mean they're well-adjusted to injustice? Because we…

— Cornel West

The challenges African-Americans are facing today are rooted in the system of slavery.

— Anonymous

Only by acknowledging the full extent of slavery's full grip on U.S. Society - its intimate connections to present day wealth and power, the…

— Douglas A. Blackmon

Black people are experiencing a systemic disadvantage, and it goes back to slavery, which was not that long ago.

— Justin Simien

Systemically, there hasn't been an oppression more overt and long-lasting than economic oppression against black people and minorities in this country.

— Kerby Jean-Raymond

White America has seen to it that Black history has been suppressed in schools and in American history books. The bravery of hundreds of…

— Huey Newton

I'll also say, yes, I think the change in black consciuosness in recent years has made me more sensitive to injustice in every area…

— Curt Flood

As an African American woman and the descendant of slaves, I do not condone any form of racism or oppression. I most certainly do…

— Phaedra Parks

I've been reading about and writing about the Civil War period and it is so striking that slavery was never made right - [Abraham]…

— George Saunders

Blacks have experienced a history of victimization in America, beginning obviously in slavery and then another 100 years of segregation. I grew up in…

— Shelby Steele

My grandmother's grandparents were slaves. My grandmother Big Mama would tell me about the stories she heard as a child growing up in the…

— Michelle Singletary