Able Quote by Walter E. Williams

Jim Crow laws stripped blacks of basic rights. Despite landmark civil rights laws, many public schools were still segregated, blacks still faced barriers to…

— Bob Beckel

The black family survived centuries of slavery and generations of Jim Crow, but it has disintegrated in the wake of the liberals' expansion of…

— Thomas Sowell

I grew up in Ohio, where civil-rights accomplishments had already begun to accelerate before Martin Luther King appeared. In hindsight, we know that many…

— Rita Dove

Many thought that the abolition of slavery, the end of Jim Crow, and the legislative progress of the Civil Rights Era, among other watershed…

— Opal Tometi

“The Left would like to believe that racism—not the breakdown of marriage and family, the absence of religious norms, a degraded popular culture, and…

— Dennis Prager

“The ostensible culprit is liberalism’s bitterly contested remedies which asked too much of whites. Yet this ignores the long history, in the North as…

— Ian Haney López

People talk about Jim Crow as if it's dead. Jim Crow isn't gone. It's adjusted. Look at the disproportionate sentences meted out to blacks…

— Aldis Hodge

“More than 2 million people found themselves behind bars at the turn of the twenty-first century, and millions more were relegated to the margins…

— Michelle Alexander

“Liberals today mostly view racism not as an active, distinct evil but as a relative of white poverty and inequality. They ignore the long…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

Jim Crow had unintended benefits. It forced blacks to build and rely on their own economic, educational and social systems.

— Jason Whitlock