Absolutes Quote by June Jordan

“White Americans cannot deny their long history of abusive transactions with people of color. These offenses, it should be noted out of fairness, can…

— Richard Kluger

I'll start with the reality. If we're having problems nationally, we're having problems on the state level and then on the local level, what…

— Louis Farrakhan

I'm from South Carolina. I'm from a real cultured state, where there's still racism daily. Still, places are segregated.

— DeAndre Hopkins

The share of Americans who say race relations are bad in this country is the highest it's been in decades, much of it amplified…

— Lester Holt

I'm black. I grew up poor. I grew up in New York during the stop-and-frisk era. I've been stopped because I fit a description…

— Brian Flores

We live in a world where if you're white, an upper-class male of extreme privilege, and able-bodied, and you're nothing that takes you away…

— Michaela Coel

It is utterly exhausting being Black in America - physically, mentally, and emotionally. While many minority groups and women feel similar stress, there is…

— Marian Wright Edelman

Screw State! State's always on the side of the blacks. The hell with them!

— Richard M. Nixon

The share of Americans who say race relations are bad in this country is the highest it's been in decades, much of it amplified…

— Lester Holt

It is important that the strongest pressures against the continuation of segregation, North or South, be continually and constantly manifested. Probably, as much as…

— Thurgood Marshall

You have young men of color in many communities who are more likely to end up in jail or in the criminal justice system…

— Barack Obama

America is a place where you can be born into a low-income household but still lift yourself up, and it doesn't matter what color…

— Alphonso Jackson