Atlanta Quote by Jimmy Carter

I think if you worked at the community level in Chicago and then a politician on the South Side of Chicago, and worked at…

— Barack Obama

“Atlanta, Georgia. Two parts Confederate racist to two parts Negro to one part something-that-doesn't-quiet-have-a-name-for-it-yet. Neither city nor country but some odd combination, a once…

— Thomas Mullen

I was working with a number of African heads of state. And after their initial surprise, I think many of them just treated me…

— Susan Rice

There were no politics to polarize us then, to magnify every slight. The "negroes" of Washington had their public schools, restaurants, bars, movie houses,…

— Pat Buchanan

As far as I was concerned, the Panthers were 'baaaaaad.' The Party was more than bad; it was bodacious. The sheer audacity of walking…

— Assata Shakur

Like the majority of Atlanta's residents, I am Black. Our city helped birth the modern civil rights movement, and I am the daughter of…

— Lucy McBath

“To great effect, Reagan echoed white frustration in race-neutral terms through implicit racial appeals. His 'color-blind' rhetoric on crime, welfare, taxes, and states' rights…

— Michelle Alexander

“the discrimination was ignored or discounted, and the fiscal habits of Black people were blamed for the growing fiscal inequities and segregation created by…

— Ibram X. Kendi

In the 1960s, Movement Conservatives created a cast of villains. The Brown v. Board decision in 1954 and President Eisenhower's use of troops to…

— Heather Cox Richardson

Even as someone who's labeled a conservative - I'm a Republican I'm black, I'm heading up this organization in the Reagan administration - I…

— Clarence Thomas

“These southern workers were more interested in protecting their prejudices than their interests.”

— Fred Erwin Beal

The interesting thing about Georgia is, Atlanta is teeming with middle-class black people and black people with money - and yet there is still…

— Richard Benjamin