Freedom Quote by Jodi Picoult

“The key to the future for blacks is a commitment to America and its ideals of freedom, personal responsibility, the free enterprise system, and…

— Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson

“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

“I am very much concerned that American Negroes achieve their freedom here in the United States. But I am also concerned for their dignity,…

— James Baldwin

“These white people don’t, and will never give a shit about us, so do what you got to do to survive in this society,…

— Desiree M. Granger

“if we go to the white man for school, we will just learn the way the white man wants us to learn. We will…

— Yaa Gyasi

“dismiss white people as the slightly mad victims of their own brainwashing. One watched the lives they led. One could not be fooled about…

— James Baldwin

“White people in this country will have quite enough to do in learning how to accept and love themselves and each other, and when…

— James Baldwin

“The truth is, white rage has undermined democracy, warped the Constitution, weakened the nation’s ability to compete economically, squandered billions of dollars on baseless…

— Carol Anderson

“They wrote, yes. But thousands could, if someone would bother to teach them. And everything they wrote was written for whites. Petitions. Appeals. It's…

— Sara Collins

“Oppressed people cannot remain oppressed forever. The yearning for freedom eventually manifests itself, and that is what has happened to the American Negro. Something…

— Martin Luther King Jr

“Freedom is not won by a passive acceptance of suffering. Freedom is won by a struggle against suffering. By this measure, Negroes have not…

— Martin Luther King Jr

“Is it possible for white America to really understand blacks’ distrust of the legal system, their fears of racial profiling and the police, without…

— Philip Dray