African american Quote by Ta-Nehisi Coates

“for far longer: Blacks were enslaved in this country for 244 years, from 1619 to 1863. As of 2010, they have been free for 147 years.”

— Isabel Wilkerson

You take a look at the history of African Americans in the US. There's been about thirty years of relative freedom. There was a…

— Noam Chomsky

Even in the United States, the enslavement of African descendants continued until the presidency of Abraham Lincoln. That brutal form of slavery was abolished…

— Fidel Castro

“More African American adults are under correctional control today – in prison or jail, on probation or parole – than were enslaved in 1850,…

— Michelle Alexander

Two hundred fifty years of slavery. Ninety years of Jim Crow. Sixty years of separate but equal. Thirty-five years of racist housing policy. Until…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

It is over one hundred years since the abolition of slavery. The Negro people in the United States have taken plenty and they have…

— C. L. R. James

“And despite the unprecedented levels of incarceration in the African American community, the civil rights community is oddly quiet.”

— Michelle Alexander

Well, when you think about it black American culture evolved over three and a half centuries. Every minute under which they lived under oppression…

— Shelby Steele

If incarceration had come to define the lives of men from impoverished black neighborhoods, eviction was shaping the lives of women. Poor black men…

— Matthew Desmond

“The institution of slavery was, for a quarter millennium, the conversion of human beings into currency, into machines who existed solely for the profit…

— Isabel Wilkerson

“The abolition of slavery, apart from preservation of the Union, was the most important result of our Civil War. But the transition was badly…

— William Silverman

Since the nations founding, African Americans repeatedly have been controlled through institutions such as slavery and Jim Crow, which appear to die but then…

— Michelle Alexander