Black people Quote by Kimberle Williams Crenshaw

“In early 2014, the Department of Justice and Education issued guidelines pressuring public school districts to adopt racial quotas when disciplining children. The basis…

— David E. Bernstein

Violence is black children going to school for 12 years and receiving 6 years' worth of education.

— Julian Bond

Black people are victims of an enormous amount of violence. None of those things can take place without the complicity of the people who…

— Toni Morrison

Daily the Negro is coming more and more to look upon law and justice, not as protecting safeguards, but as sources of humiliation and…

— W. E. B. Du Bois

“Today it is perfectly legal to discriminate against criminals in nearly all the ways that it was once legal to discriminate against African Americans.”

— Michelle Alexander

“A few white children were friendly, but others were hostile or simply distant. Teachers unthinkingly added to both problems by physically separating black students…

— Derrick Bell

“When the law regulates behavior it plays an indirect part in molding public sentiment. The enforcement of the law is itself a form of…

— Martin Luther King Jr

Ethical and cultural desegregation. It is a contradiction in terms to scream race pride and equality while at the same time spurning Negro teachers…

— Zora Neale Hurston

When we talk about politicization, when we talk about book banning, when we talk about Black history curriculum being picked apart - I think…

— Miguel Cardona

Whenever black folks speak candidly about the horrors of police brutality, the default reaction in the United States isn't to start disrupting and dismantling…

— Jemele Hill

It is purposeless to tell Negroes they should not be enraged when they should be. Indeed, they will be mentally healthier if they do…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

The lived experience of Black people in the United States has demonstrated countless times that we are neither seen as 'law-abiding citizens' nor worthy…

— Jonathan Capehart