Community Quote by Patrisse Cullors

These events are swirling around them. In the white community, people felt like they had no control over their neighborhoods, their destiny. In the…

— Sara Paretsky

My personal history, along with the history of many black people in this country, is rife with trauma born out of anti-black policies aided…

— Patrisse Cullors

My slice of the millennial generation, as we grew up, became - to the dismay of the GOP - a bloc of fairly consistently…

— Kristen Soltis Anderson

I vividly remember the summer of 1964 with its voter registration drives, boiling racial tensions, and the erupting awareness of the cruelty of racism.…

— Sue Monk Kidd

When I was younger, I remember families like mine who had to deal with the disastrous policies of the 1970s.

— Andrew Scheer

I think what happened during the Great Depression was that African Americans understood that Republicans championed citizenship and voting rights but they became impatient…

— Rand Paul

Growing up black in America, and with Southern roots in my family, I was informed in my own life.

— Rob Morgan

I grew up in Detroit. I grew up in an environment where you were supposed to be Democrat, where they told you that Republicans…

— Benjamin Carson

When I think back, I felt like I had the life that a lot of white American kids grew up with in the suburbs…

— St. Lucia

I do remember being teased by my cousins on my mom's side for not being black enough. And then I'd spend the summer with…

— Lauren London

I, like many members of my generation, was concerned with segregation and the repeated violation of civil rights.

— Anonymous

I know I'm going back some decades, but I'll never forget the discomfort of being one of the few Black kids in a predominantly…

— Jonathan Capehart