Black Quote by Ward Connerly

“For African Americans, unfreedom is the historical norm. Enslavement lasted for nearly 250 years. The 150 years that followed have encompassed debt peonage, convict…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree came as a…

— Anonymous

“The civil rights generation is exiting the American stage—not in a haze of nostalgia but in a cloud of gloom, troubled by the persistence…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

“The confines of enslavement were producing Black people who were intellectually, psychologically, culturally, and behaviorally different, not inferior. Benjamin”

— Ibram X. Kendi

Eight generations of African-Americans are still waiting to achieve their rights - compensation and restitution for the hundreds of years during which they were…

— Cynthia McKinney

“There are always those who aspire to deprive minorities of their equality and civil rights. They NEVER sleep – they wait for an opportunity…

— Christina Engela

Justice Harry A. Blackmun, a quirky but pivotal member of the Supreme Court for 24 years, was a hoarder. He seems to have kept…

— Cliff Sloan

I can only tell you that when long soul-searching and a combination of circumstances delivered me of my last prejudices, there was an exalted…

— Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

The time will come when the Negro in the South will be accorded all the political rights which his ability, character, and material possessions…

— Booker T. Washington

“The Supreme Court has now closed the courthouse doors to claims of racial bias at every stage of the criminal justice process, from stops…

— Michelle Alexander

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