Honor Quote by Shelby Steele

“The whites got what they deserved. For enslaving her people, for massacring another race, for stealing the very land itself. Let them burn by…

— Colson Whitehead

“One of the greatest paradoxes of the Black Power movement was that it talked unceasingly about not imitating the values of white society, but…

— Martin Luther King Jr

“So secure was his power that rumblings of discontent had finally surfaced within his own base, among black nationalists upset with his willingness to…

— Barack Obama

The Klan had used fear, intimidation and murder to brutally oppress over African-Americans who sought justice and equality and it sought to respond to…

— Anonymous

If O.J. had been accused of killing his black wife, you would not have seen the same passion stirred up.

— Al Sharpton

The whites were really brutishly ignorant, blitheringly, so they killed people sometimes - just came into the African-American community and maimed people because they…

— Maya Angelou

I think that the response to the OJ Simpson trial was based on a kind of sensibility that emerged out of the many campaigns…

— Angela Davis

“The goal was organized resistance to racial subjugation, and its harassing effect was probably more potent precisely because they risked so much without either…

— Derrick Bell

It was the wish of the Americans that their red brethren should remain peacefully round their own fires, and not embroil themselves in any…

— Zebulon Pike

“The weakness in the case for integration was that it ultimately rested on a critical mass of white people playing along, either out of…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

[Martin Luther] King subpoened the nation's conscience. He was killed for it.

— Bill Moyers

Their prejudice allowed white Southerners to look the other way when blacks were denied their most basic human rights, and it encouraged the worst…

— Linda Chavez