Black people Quote by Robin DiAngelo

Attacking school segregation requires all hands on deck. We in the charter sector must move beyond our traditional comfort zone, serving disadvantaged students, and…

— Eva Moskowitz

“Most school desegregation suits were brought on behalf of blacks, but Mexican Americans also suffered various forms of school segregation throughout the southwestern states,…

— Derrick Bell

“By the turn of the twentieth century, every state in the South had laws on the books that disenfranchised blacks and discriminated against them…

— Michelle Alexander

“Slavery, Jim Crow, segregation: These bonded white people into a broad aristocracy united by the salient fact of unblackness.”

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

In a sense, mass incarceration has emerged as a far more extreme form of physical and residential segregation than Jim Crow segregation. Rather than…

— Michelle Alexander

In studying food, you embrace everything. Food exposes the long, complex history of the South - slavery, Jim Crow segregation, class struggle, extreme hunger,…

— Marcie Cohen Ferris

Jim Crow is alive and it's dressed in a Brooks Brothers suit, my friend, instead of a white robe.

— Myrlie Evers-Williams

People have said over the years that the reason I did not give up my seat was because I was tired. I did not…

— Rosa Parks

Poor minorities live in a new age of Jim Crow, one in which the ravages of segregation, racism, poverty and dashed hopes are amplified…

— Henry Giroux

You know if we were to look back and how we were in 1955 living in Jim Crow, living in segregation, living in segregated…

— Anna Deavere Smith

[Barack Obama] grew up in Hawaii, far, far removed from the most, you know, sort of violent, you know, tendencies of Jim Crow and…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

Let me be clear: I support the Civil Rights Act because I overwhelmingly agree with the intent of the legislation, which was to stop…

— Rand Paul

“Got orders from headquarters. They makin' coffins fuh all de white folks. 'Tain't nothin' but cheap pine, but dat's better'n nothin'. Don't dump no…

— Zora Neale Hurston

“In the 1920s, Jim Crow Mississippi was, in all facets of society, a kleptocracy.”

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

Arguably the most important parallel between mass incarceration and Jim Crow is that both have served to define the meaning and significance of race…

— Michelle Alexander