Black Quote by Muhammad Ali

I don't understand why black people have been so quiescent, so passive over the hundreds of years of American history. Why hasn't there been…

— John Edgar Wideman

The violence that we had in the 60's was limited. The next time it will be unlimited because the violence in the 60's was…

— Robert F. Williams

I feel that non-violence is really the only way that we can follow because violence is just so self-defeating. A riot ends up creating…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Every community has crime and violence; it's a part of being human. This idea that black communities are more violent than others is just…

— Patrisse Cullors

We will not stop fighting until every single black life is provided the type of love and support we so desperately deserve.

— Patrisse Cullors

It's not that tens of millions of people all want to be violent. But they share the worldview that then, at its extreme, gives…

— Tony Blair

We may never be strong enough to be entirely non-violent in thought, word and deed. But we must keep non-violence as our goal and…

— Mahatma Gandhi

I am for violence if non-violence means we continue postponing a solution to the American black man's problem just to avoid violence.

— Malcolm X

We cannot assume that people by virtue of the fact that they are black are going to associate themselves with progressive political struggles. We…

— Angela Davis

One principle I've been fighting for that doesn't endear me to a lot of people is that black people can be just as complicated…

— Henry Louis Gates

Violence as a way of achieving racial justice is both impractical and immoral. I am not unmindful of the fact that violence often brings…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

While violence is part of what it means to be part of the black diaspora in the United States, that is not all it…

— Clint Smith