Civil society Quote by Nelson Mandela

Martin Luther King Jr's agenda was not to help Negroes overcome American apartheid in the south. It was to make America democracy a better…

— Cornel West

Well, you know, in the fundamentalist milieu of the Afrikaners, there was a sense that they were a chosen people, that they were bringing…

— Nadine Gordimer

Regarding African education in this country, there was a time when the government took no interest whatsoever in African education. It was the churches,…

— Nelson Mandela

We had particular policies in this country that resulted in the larger share of poverty that we have in African-American communities.

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

There was a resistance movement in the white community, and there was a determined civil rights movement by our neighbors and friends in the…

— Jeff Sessions

For decades, many blacks were reluctant to pursue a profession that was associated with servitude. If you went to school, it was to become…

— Marcus Samuelsson

The black masses want not to be shrunk from as though they are plague-ridden. They want not to be walled up in slums, in…

— Malcolm X

This propaganda of dis-associating Western Negroes from Africa is not a new one. For many years white propagandists have been printing tons of literature…

— Marcus Garvey

The idea of African brotherhood is often just a cover-up for laziness. We must see what is achievable in our circumstances and evaluate all…

— Benjamin Mkapa

There wasn't much white people would allow us to do in those days. You could be a schoolteacher or an athlete to get away…

— Hank Aaron

For centuries, Europeans dominated the African continent. The white man arrogated to himself the right to rule and to be obeyed by the non-white;…

— Kwame Nkrumah

“Planters responded to labor demands and laborers’ unity by purchasing more African people and luring Whiteness away from Blackness.”

— Ibram X. Kendi