African american Quote by Michelle Alexander

“Segregation laws were proposed as part of a deliberate effort to drive a wedge between poor whites and African Americans. These discriminatory barriers were…

— Michelle Alexander

“Scholars are beginning to understand that segregation does not reflect the preferences of whites alone.”

— Jared Taylor

“What neither Warren nor most of the rest of us recognized was that segregation was not, as Nirej Sekhorn put it, simply a "taint"…

— Derrick Bell

“Here is a foundation for understanding today what was clear to only a few fifty years earlier. Now we can see how the state-mandated…

— Derrick Bell

“Still later, I read Ira Katznelson’s history of discrimination, When Affirmative Action Was White, which argued that similar exclusions applied to other “color-blind” New…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

“It shames me to admit that in the white-defined society in which I was raised, blacks were considered merely background. This was worse than…

— Jonathan Odell

Segregation, in a sense, helped create and maintain black solidarity.

— Randall Kennedy

“The challenge is more difficult because low-income African Americans today confront not only segregation but also the income stagnation and blocked mobility faced by…

— Richard Rothstein

“History seemed to repeat itself. Just as the white elite had successfully driven a wedge between poor whites and blacks following Bacon's Rebellion by…

— Michelle Alexander

“When they are beyond the reach of the law, Americans revert to the patterns of segregation the law forbids. Why is this?”

— Jared Taylor

“Just like in the old days before Roosevelt, segregationists were given the power to locally administer and racially discriminate the relief coming from these…

— Ibram X. Kendi

It is important that the strongest pressures against the continuation of segregation, North or South, be continually and constantly manifested. Probably, as much as…

— Thurgood Marshall