Black person Quote by Yuval Noah Harari

Had it not been for James Meredith, who was willing to risk his life, the University of Mississippi would still be all white.

— Constance Baker Motley

That kind of thing happens to black people every day in this country, and they don't receive that kind of sentence he did, which…

— Ishmael Reed

“Black newspapers and their readers wasted no time in making the link between America’s inadequacy in space and the dreadful conditions facing many black…

— Margot Lee Shetterly

If you talk to the Whites in Mississippi they will tell you, 'You can go to any school you want to; we don't see…

— Bennie Thompson

“King had marched six weeks earlier through the Mississippi town where the civil rights workers Goodman, Chaney, and Schwerner were murdered. He had called…

— Rick Perlstein

“THE INSANITY OF FREEDOM It happened in Washington in 1840. A government census measured dementia among blacks in the United States. According to the…

— Eduardo Galeano

“Between 1882 and 1968, more black people were lynched in MIssissippi than in any other state.”

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

It took the United States Army to get one Negro into the University of Mississippi; it took troops to get a few Negroes in…

— Malcolm X

The thought of' the inferiority of the Negro is drilled into him in almost every class he enters and in almost every book he…

— Carter G. Woodson

In talking about the [Emmett Till murder trial], you have to repeat the atmosphere. This is Mississippi in 1955, with a long history of…

— Charles Diggs

In January of 1969, after a meeting to discuss the leadership of UCLA's new Afro-American Program, [Alprentice "Bunchy" Carter and John Huggins, Jr.] were…

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar