Black Quote by Joe Biden

“This book argues that mass incarceration is, metaphorically, the New Jim Crow and that all those who care about social justice should fully commit…

— Michelle Alexander

I can only tell you that when long soul-searching and a combination of circumstances delivered me of my last prejudices, there was an exalted…

— Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

Abraham Lincoln freed the black man. In many ways, Dr. King freed the white man. How did he accomplish this tremendous feat? Where others…

— Ronald Reagan

“[T]he slave went free; stood a brief moment in the sun; then moved back again toward slavery. —W.E.B Du Bois, Black Reconstruction in America…

— Michelle Alexander

For the Negro, Andrew Johnson did less than nothing when once he realized that the chief beneficiary of labor and economic reform in the…

— W. E. B. Du Bois

For a black male, the sound of the blues is pre-Civil Rights. It's oppression.

— Gary Clark, Jr

“The negroes been freed.' 'Well, I ain't.”

— Andrew Lytle

When President Kennedy was elected, many black Americans, like so many Americans, were captivated by his youth and energy and promise and were especially…

— Marian Wright Edelman

The Negro fought and bled and died in every war the white man waged, and he still won't give you justice. You nursed his…

— Malcolm X

You discover that the education the Negro gets is designed to keep him subservient. The poor black man is exploited by whites and by…

— Medgar Evers

You go through the Civil Rights struggle, everybody knew the songs - 'We shall overcome.' Everybody would sing it. Music helped us. James Brown,…

— Geoffrey Canada

“Ninety percent of those admitted to prison for drug offenses in many states were black or Latino, yet the mass incarceration of communities of…

— Michelle Alexander