Freedom Quote by Michelle Alexander

“The ostensible culprit is liberalism’s bitterly contested remedies which asked too much of whites. Yet this ignores the long history, in the North as…

— Ian Haney López

“there is, and has always been, a persistent line of antiracist thought in this country, challenging those assimilationist and segregationist lines, and giving the…

— Ibram X. Kendi

“Both segregationist and assimilationist ideas have been wrapped up in attractive arguments to seem good, and both have made sure to re-wrap antiracist ideas…

— Ibram X. Kendi

“the confluence of racial prejudice and conservative politics is the new racism. It’s a product of almost a half-century of ethnic discourse and coded…

— Ian Haney López

“It is not enough for the Negroes to declare that color-prejudice is the sole cause of their social condition, nor for the white South…

— W.E.B. Du Bois

“Jacqueline Jones argues, “Race signifies neither a biological fact, nor a primal prejudice, and it lacks the coherence of a robust political ideology; rather,…

— Steven Stoll

“wrapping their ideas in goodness, segregationists and assimilationists have rarely confessed to their racist public policies and ideas.”

— Ibram X. Kendi

Ethical and cultural desegregation. It is a contradiction in terms to scream race pride and equality while at the same time spurning Negro teachers…

— Zora Neale Hurston

“All people—white and colored, slave and free, Union and Confederate—shared a common humanity belied by their outward differences. In a time of discord, in…

— Jennifer Chiaverini

“It is, indeed, one of the basic moral blindspots of American conservatism that its intellectual and leadership energy have never been focused in a…

— Martin Kilson

“Sentiments that glorify humanity know no racial distinction.”

— Abhijit Naskar

“This is not to portray race as simply one among many issues, each with equal weight; instead, race has been the principal weapon in…

— Ian Haney López