Alex Quote by Manning Marable

We should not forget that in the '60s, George Wallace's motto was 'segregation forever,' and that he did nothing to deter bombings and other…

— Coretta Scott King

The Negro does not want love. He wants justice . . . I believe it would be better for the Negro's soul to be…

— E. Franklin Frazier

The War on Drugs, cloaked in race-neutral language, offered whites opposed to racial reform a unique opportunity to express their hostility toward blacks and…

— Michelle Alexander

[Alex] Haley's objective was quite different. Haley was a republican. He was an integrationist. He was very opposed to black nationalism.

— Manning Marable

“The goal was organized resistance to racial subjugation, and its harassing effect was probably more potent precisely because they risked so much without either…

— Derrick Bell

“Others channeled—or were led to channel—their economic and political frustrations into racist ideas, which then led to more hatred of Black people. It”

— Ibram X. Kendi

“Racial hatred in America still exists but never was it anything like the time immediately after the Civil War. The western history of our…

— William Silverman

I would like to say that whites jumped right behind Malcolm X. They’re makin’ a book about him, it’s required readin’ in all colleges…

— Muhammad Ali

“Within the Nation, he [Malcolm] explained that his purpose was to present the views of Elijah Muhammad and to challenge distortions about their religion.…

— Manning Marable

Negrophobes exist. It is not hatred of the Negro, however, that motivates them; they lack the courage for that, or they have lost it.…

— Frantz Fanon

“There was a Race Relations Act, supported by socialists and conservatives alike, which made the incitement of racial hatred a crime but there was…

— Joseph Pearce

[Alex Haley] objective was to illustrate that the racial separatism of the N.O.I. was a kind of pathological or a kind of - it…

— Manning Marable