Air Quote by Maya Angelou

Sometimes black people really want to hold onto our oppression - 'This is ours! This belongs to us.' You can't just talk about equality…

— Wanda Sykes

When the world's moving towards being the most inclusive it's ever been, it's unthinkable that certain basic aspects of life are still so unfair…

— Troy Deeney

It's not just a struggle for blacks to be accepted by whites, but the other way around as well. A lot of people don't…

— Q-Tip

The struggle of African Americans is everybody's struggle.

— Eric Garcetti

What whites have rarely had to think about—because being the dominant group, we are so used to having our will done, with a little…

— Tim Wise

A good many observers have remarked that if equality could come at once, the Negro would not be ready for it. I submit that…

— Anonymous

I have no purpose to introduce political and social equality between the white and black races. There is physical difference between the two which,…

— Abraham Lincoln

Economic justice is not just something blacks are crying out for; whites are desperate for it, too. But in the public imagination, the face…

— Darryl Pinckney

“Across the political spectrum, Americans assert that any form of white racial consciousness or solidarity is despicable. Whites, therefore, have tried to keep their…

— Jared Taylor

“Freedom is not won by a passive acceptance of suffering. Freedom is won by a struggle against suffering. By this measure, Negroes have not…

— Martin Luther King Jr

Negroes must be free in order to be equal, and they must be equal in order to be free... Men cannot win freedom unless…

— A. Philip Randolph

It is our experience that the nation doesn't move around questions of genuine equality for the poor and for black people until it is…

— Martin Luther King, Jr