America Quote by Malcolm X

“To have a museum chronicling the great crime that was African slavery in the United States of America would be to acknowledge that the…

— Susan Sontag

Lynching is an important aspect of racial history and racial inequality in America, because it was visible, it was so public, it was so…

— Bryan Stevenson

“African slavery lacked two elements that made American slavery the most cruel form of slavery in history: the frenzy for limitless profit that comes…

— Howard Zinn

“…the racial divides in the United States will not be overcome until lynchings of all kinds are as painful to nonblacks as they are…

— Julius Lester

“The American imagination has never been able to fully recover from its white-supremacist beginnings. Consequently, our laws and attitudes have been straining against the…

— Claudia Rankine

“In American, the history of racism is taught like this: 'There was slavery and then there was Jim Crow and then there was Martin…

— Trevor Noah

“All that a man has in this world is his own will, the freedom to do what he desires. Taking away that is the…

— Alec Hutson

In my opinion while lynchings were quite possibly the most heinous crimes ever witnessed in American history, they helped in bringing people together for…

— Assata Shakur

History shows that black people have been second-class citizens, less than human. That's what had to happen with slavery. You had to dehumanise a…

— John Barnes

“The American Negro has the great advantage of having never believed the collection of myths to which white Americans cling: that their ancestors were…

— James Baldwin

“The degree of ignorance cannot easily be expressed. We may say, for instance, that nearly two-thirds of them cannot read or write. This but…

— W.E.B. Du Bois

By the time I was at college, I became very alert to the question of racial discrimination, and I remember one of my first…

— Albert Maltz