Black Quote by Shirley Chisholm

As there were no black Founding Fathers, there were no founding mothers - a great pity, on both counts.

— Shirley Chisholm

When our founding fathers drafted the Constitution and Bill of Rights, black people weren't even considered human.

— Claudette Colvin

The Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the Bill of Rights were all written by affluent white males, but to discuss them in any…

— Russell Freedman

The advent of the civil rights movement during the 50s and 60s made it very plain crystal clear to me that we had an…

— John Lewis

“The founders were not democrats and socialists like Hertzberg. They were conservatives who had a healthy distrust of political passions and who devised a…

— David Horowitz

Today's Constitution is a realistic document of freedom only because of several corrective amendments. Those amendments speak to a sense of decency and fairness…

— Thurgood Marshall

Until the killing of black men, black mothers' sons, becomes as important to the rest of the country as the killing of a white…

— Ella Baker

The Constitution of this government was written by men who accepted Jesus Christ as the Savior of mankind. Let men and women in these…

— David O. McKay

America was made for white men. Literally, at the time of the writing of the new country's Constitution, only white men could own land,…

— Amanda Seales

“Here's what we're not taught [about the Declaration and Constitution]: Those words at the time they were written were blazingly, electrifyingly subversive. If you…

— Naomi Wolf

“The document that heralded our national revolution, the Declaration of Independence, was penned by Thomas Jefferson. Within that text, he did not cover any…

— Honorée Fanonne Jeffers

“The protection of our Constitution, and, moreover, of written law itself, has been laughed to scorn by traitors in black dresses who have the…

— Joseph Befumo