America Quote by Joy Reid

If you are a certain kind of white conservative, especially a white male conservative, then Roger Ailes was a hero. He constructed a world…

— Joy Reid

“Though Ailes had spent more than four decades in Washington, D.C., and New York City, he still saw himself as a scrapper from a…

— Gabriel Sherman

“The country had developed a delusional self-image, one of racial purity and hegemony, an industrialist white nation destined for progress. In reality, the country…

— Adrienne Berard

King thought he understood the white Southerner, having been born and reared in Georgia and trained a theologian.

— Constance Baker Motley

“If I liked listening to him, it was not because I believed or even respected the stuff he mouthed off every day at Café…

— André Aciman

“All the authors I studied, all the historical figures, with the exception of George Washington Carver, and all those figures I looked upon as…

— Walter Dean Myers

“So secure was his power that rumblings of discontent had finally surfaced within his own base, among black nationalists upset with his willingness to…

— Barack Obama

“It’s not that Jackson had a “dark side,” as his apologists rationalize and which all human beings have, but rather that Jackson was the…

— Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

A genius has perhaps scarcely ever appeared amongst the negroes, and the standard of their morality is almost universally so low that it is…

— Otto Weininger

“All the leading geopoliticians were conservative white male imperialists who sought, in their own way, to explain and justify imperial expansionism by their own…

— Gearoid Otuathail

“His uncles adhered to those ancient rules of southern living, for they understood how easily a colored man’s general comportment could turn into a…

— Attica Locke

Martin Luther King demeans his race and retards the advancement of his people.

— Strom Thurmond