Art Quote by Jonathan Lethem

What I think is different today is the lack of political connection between the black middle class and the increasing numbers of black people…

— Angela Davis

I think the legacy of the civil rights movement is that now whites are more open to being represented by people of color or…

— Carol Moseley Braun

There was a resistance movement in the white community, and there was a determined civil rights movement by our neighbors and friends in the…

— Jeff Sessions

We forgot that Martin Luther King, Jr. changed his discourse toward the end of his life because he understood that the real fundamental problem…

— Raoul Peck

Actually we've had a black bourgeoisie or the makings of a black bourgeoisie for many more decades.In a sense the quest for the emancipation…

— Angela Davis

Many thought that the abolition of slavery, the end of Jim Crow, and the legislative progress of the Civil Rights Era, among other watershed…

— Opal Tometi

The sad and tragic fact is that the civil rights movement, despite its honorable and courageous past, has over the years degenerated into a…

— Thomas Sowell

Segregation was a burden for many blacks, because the end of the civil war and the amendments added to the constitution elevated expectations beyond…

— Ed Smith

Where race is concerned, America has had a horrible, a wretched history and that came to account in the 1960s, with the Civil Rights…

— Shelby Steele

The demands of the Civil Rights era weren't limited to voting rights - they strove for an end to segregation in all aspects of…

— Alicia Garza

Racism was once just racism, a terrible bigotry that people nevertheless learned to live with, if not as a necessary evil then as an…

— Shelby Steele

“When one-third of the population of the erstwhile Confederacy had consisted of the much-maligned Sons of Ham, the blacks had really been of economic,…

— George S. Schuyler