Checks Quote by Ron Paul

“By treating blacks as inferior, such policies were an affront to their dignity. This would be true even if these policies had not been…

— John Corvino

There was no welfare state, and people had to rely mainly on the Poor Law - that was all the state provided. It was…

— Barbara Castle

I'm one of the people who believes that our losses were greater than our gains. Because before the Civil Rights movement we had entrepreneurship…

— John Henrik Clarke

“Terrorism carried the day. Federal troops withdrew from the South in 1877. The dream of Reconstruction died. For the next century, political violence was…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

“Following the July 1919 race riot in Washington, DC, Johnson investigated and offered this assessment of how and why peace was restored. “The Negroes…

— Nicholas Johnson

“Most of the blacks who took part in the riots of 1966 and 1967 apparently did not expect much in the way of tangible…

— James T. Patterson

Many whites, even white Southerners told me that even though it may have seemed like the blacks were being freed (by my actions) they…

— Rosa Parks

“The new black conservatives claim that transfer payments to the black needy engender a mentality of dependence which undercuts the value of self-reliance and…

— Cornel West

“Since 1865, when the [Thirteenth] Amendment was passed, Black men were getting charged, set up, arrested, and convicted for the pettiest of offenses--like child…

— Amy Watkins

“the discrimination was ignored or discounted, and the fiscal habits of Black people were blamed for the growing fiscal inequities and segregation created by…

— Ibram X. Kendi

'Blacks were too scared to do anything, but they came out to greet James Meredith': That would have been the story in the evening…

— James Meredith

All those people who went out [to Occupy Wall Street] missed work, didn't get paid. Those were individuals who were already feeling the effects…

— Edward Snowden