African american Quote by Maya Angelou

People have been killing because of racial differences since the time of Adam and Eve, but in this country racism has been primarily aimed…

— Bob Cousy

There was no black or white. Someone who had been good her entire life could, in fact, do something evil. People were just as…

— Jodi Picoult

Brown people and black people and red people swarmed through our great halls, until those who were white looked simply faded-out human beings beside…

— Candace Wheeler

The black people of America have been victims of violence at the hands of the white men for four hundred years, and following the…

— Malcolm X

Their prejudice allowed white Southerners to look the other way when blacks were denied their most basic human rights, and it encouraged the worst…

— Linda Chavez

America has allowed white people to kill and brutalize those they don't like.

— Malcolm X

The Klan had used fear, intimidation and murder to brutally oppress over African-Americans who sought justice and equality and it sought to respond to…

— Anonymous

The racist conscience of America is such that murder does not register as murder really, unless the victim is white... blacks knew that white…

— Eldridge Cleaver

“The white mobs followed blacks into the surrounding forests and marshes and shot many victims in the back as they fled. Several bodies were…

— E.R. Bills

The whites have always had the say in America. White people made Jesus white, angels white, the Last Supper white. If I threaten you,…

— Muhammad Ali

These events are swirling around them. In the white community, people felt like they had no control over their neighborhoods, their destiny. In the…

— Sara Paretsky

The misfortune of the man of color is having been enslaved. The misfortune and inhumanity of the white man are having killed man somewhere.

— Frantz Fanon