African american Quote by Noam Chomsky

My grandmother's grandparents were slaves. My grandmother Big Mama would tell me about the stories she heard as a child growing up in the…

— Michelle Singletary

They [the blacks] had no rights which the white man was bound to respect.

— Roger Brooke Taney

Most blacks have lost the moral authority to claim the mantle of civil rights because they refuse to stand for what is right.

— Jesse Lee Peterson

Blacks were not enslaved because they were black but because they were available. Slavery has existed in the world for thousands of years. Whites…

— Thomas Sowell

For the rest of their lives, [black men] can be denied the right to vote, automatically excluded from juries, and legally discriminated against in…

— Michelle Alexander

As a result of America's efforts to realize the ideals of equality and freedom, blacks in America are now the freest and richest black…

— David Horowitz

When our founding fathers drafted the Constitution and Bill of Rights, black people weren't even considered human.

— Claudette Colvin

Poor whites didn't have rights. They made all kind of restrictions on voting. So person meant relatively well - off, free white man.

— Noam Chomsky

The liberation of Blacks is not for Blacks only.

— Jesse Jackson

Blacks in America want to forget about slavery - the stigma, the shame. If you can't be who you are, who can you be?…

— August Wilson

I think that the black people in this country have the reached the point where they should reserve the right to do whatever is…

— Malcolm X

When and under what conditions is the black man to have a free ballot? When is he in fact to have those full civil…

— Benjamin Harrison