Experience Quote by Patrisse Cullors

A black agenda is jobs, jobs, jobs, quality education, investment in infrastructure and strong democratic regulation of corporations. The black agenda, at its best,…

— Cornel West

By dismantling the narrow politics of racial identity and selective self-interest, by going beyond 'black' and 'white,' we may construct new values, new institutions…

— Manning Marable

The black agenda, from Frederick Douglas to Ida B. Wells to Martin King, has always been the most broad, deep, inclusive, embracing agenda of…

— Cornel West

“An old radical idea, 'Black and white, unite and fight', was about to come into its own.”

— B.J. Widick

Obama's ascendancy unhinged the radical right, offering a unified target to competing camps of racial, nativist and religious animus.

— Barton Gellman

Before BLM, there was a dormancy in our black freedom movement. Obviously many of us were doing work, but we've been able to reignite…

— Patrisse Cullors

In trying to address the systemic problem of racial injustice, we would do well to look at abolitionism, because here is a movement of…

— Manisha Sinha

“It's both a tremendous obligation and honor to undertake the unfulfilled work of the best of our abolitionist precursors--those who did not only want…

— Dylan Rodriguez

It is a call for black people in this country to unite, to recognize their heritage, to build a sense of community. It is…

— Stokely Carmichael

For black America needs a politics whose first mission isn't the reinforcement of the idea of black America; and a discourse of race that…

— Anonymous

A very hurting thing for Black Americans - to feel that we can't love our enemies. People forget what a great tradition we have…

— Bell Hooks

To challenge norms, presuppositions, practices in communities across this country - where the unconscious valorization and celebration of whiteness and conscious resistance to trying…

— Michael Eric Dyson