American Quote by Ross Douthat

Segregation, in a sense, helped create and maintain black solidarity.

— Randall Kennedy

Segregation was a burden for many blacks, because the end of the civil war and the amendments added to the constitution elevated expectations beyond…

— Ed Smith

If it weren't for the likes of Sharpton, Jackson, the Congressional Black Caucus, Barack Obama, and the NAACP, racial strife in America would be…

— Jesse Lee Peterson

Rich white Protestant men have held on to some measure of power in America almost solely by getting women, blacks, and other disadvantaged groups…

— P. J. O'Rourke

I think in this phase, after the Negro emerges in and from the desegregated society, then a great deal of time must be spent…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

We reached a high point in my opinion with the passage of the civil rights legislation and Martin Luther King's success and the crusade…

— Jimmy Carter

“When everybody was, you know, pushing for multiculturalism in lead institutions, it really meant filtering a few people of color or women into university…

— Chris Hedges

“Racism was an important moral issue, one that the church needed to confront. Putting a black man in a position of honor and authority…

— Timothy B. Tyson

For most of our nation's history, whatever the inequality in wealth between the richest and poorest citizens, we maintained a cultural equality known nowhere…

— Charles Murray

The idea of voluntary segregation went against every value I had been taught. What did being born black have to do with excellence?

— Walter Dean Myers

Many Catholic parishes were segregated prior to the Civil Rights movement, and the first large contingent of African-American Catholic priests would enter into the…

— Anthea Butler

Throughout American history, whites have played a significant role in helping blacks secure freedom and equality.

— Jesse Lee Peterson