Constitution Quote by Susan B. Anthony

Discrimination is a hellhound that gnaws at Negroes in every waking moment of their lives to remind them that the lie of their inferiority…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

“Color prejudice is at the bottom of everything. If it’s not fixed, the plight of the Negro will continue long after abolition.”

— Sue Monk Kidd

“Nine Southern states adopted vagrancy laws - which essentially made it a criminal offense not to work and were applied selectively to blacks -…

— Michelle Alexander

Profound as race prejudice is against the Negro American, it is not practically as far-reaching as the prejudice against women. For stripping away the…

— Pearl S. Buck

“blatant, intentional discrimination against women is far from being something merely to be read about in history books.”

— Cordelia Fine

Although the doctrine of innate equality of the race has been proclaimed, yet so far as woman is concerned it has been a standing…

— Amelia Bloomer

Racial discrimination against a white is as unconstitutional as race discrimination against a black.

— William O. Douglas

“The prevailing discriminatory practices during the sixties, whose targets were working people, women, and people of color, were atrocious. Thus, an enforceable race-based --…

— Cornel West

My seeking has been to explain and illuminate the Negro condition in America and obliquely that of all human kind,

— Langston Hughes

“Today it is perfectly legal to discriminate against criminals in nearly all the ways that it was once legal to discriminate against African Americans.”

— Michelle Alexander

Only the BLACK WOMAN can say 'when and where I enter, in the quiet, undisputed dignity of my womanhood, without violence and without suing…

— Anna Julia Cooper

If the Negroes are to remain forever removed from the producing atmosphere, and the present discrimination continues, there will be nothing left for them…

— Carter G. Woodson