Quote by John Howard Griffin

“newspaper reports of rape constructed white defendants as individual offenders and black defendants as representative of the failings of their racial group,”

— Ibram X. Kendi

“Not only is it true that many of the alleged cases of rape against the Negro, are like the foregoing, but the same crime…

— Ida B. Wells-Barnett

“I also found that what the white man of the South practiced for himself, he assumed to be unthinkable in white women. They could…

— Ida B. Wells-Barnett

“They would owe most of their success to a curious rape mania that rides on the shoulder of American journalism like some jeering, masturbating…

— Hunter S. Thompson

“aggressive hypersexual African femininity. Such portrayals served both to exonerate White men of their inhuman rapes and to mask their human attractions to the…

— Ibram X. Kendi

“Is a newspaper prints a sex crime, it's smut, but when The New York Times prints it, it's a sociological study. [Adolph S. Ochs…

— Adolph S. Ochs

“I feel enormously blessed to be a successful black woman writer in this culture, but I have found my small fame, such as it…

— Bell Hooks

“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

“She held the paper in her hand for a long time, trying to follow the reasoning by which that thin ragged boy had become…

— Ann Petry

“We have an abundance of rape and violence against women in this country and on this Earth, though it’s almost never treated as a…

— Rebecca Solnit

“The witnesses for the state, with the exception of the sheriff of Maycomb County, have presented themselves to you gentlemen, to this court, in…

— Harper Lee To Kill A Mockingbird

“Whites don't know a goddamned thing about what's gone wrong here. They say 'Detroit had this, Detroit had that.... But economic power is still…

— Arthur L. Johnson