“Black community, I think as a whole America is dealing with the issue of homophobia. We got to be really honest about whether we believe in civil rights for all people or not. As Black people we need to remember the moment that we say it's okay to disenfranchise one segment of society, we're opening the door to move backward on ourselves.” PeopleThinkingNeedsBelieveWholeMomentsAmericaRememberMovingBlackIssuesRightsDoorsHonestOkayOpeningCivil RightsBlack PeopleHomophobia Author:Kerry Washington
“Martin Luther King said America had given a bad check to black people.” PeopleSaidAmericaGivenBlackRaceKingsChecksBlack PeopleLuther Author:Andrew Young
“Frederick Douglas's agenda was an agenda, not for black people to get out of slavery. It was for America to become a better democracy. And it's spilt over for women's rights; it's split over for worker's rights and so forth.” PeopleAmericaBlackDemocracyRightsSlaveryWorkersAgendasBlack PeopleSplitsWomens RightsFrederick Douglas Author:Cornel West
“If we have learned anything in the past ten years, it is that these lovely things about America were never lovely. We have been expansionist and aggressive and mean to other people from the beginning. And we've been aggressive and mean to people in this country, and we've allocated the wealth of this country in a very unjust way. We've never had justice in our courts for the poor people, for black people, for radicals. Now how can we boast that America is a very special place? It's not that special. It really isn't.” PeopleIfsWayYearsMeanHas BeensCountryAmericaPastBlackWealthJusticePoorSpecialTenCourtLovelyRadicalAggressiveBlack PeopleUnjustPoor PeopleBoastSpecial PlacesLovely Things Author:Howard Zinn
“I am not a conservative but I have spoken out for years against the staggering amount blind hatred directed at black conservatives by liberals. Liberals are shockingly quick to demean and dismiss brilliant black people like Rice, Carson, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, U.S. Senator Tim Scott (R-SC), Professor Walter E. Williams and economist Thomas Sowell because they don't fit into the role they have carved out for a black person in America. Black Americans must be obedient liberals on all things or risk being called a race traitor or an Uncle Tom.” PeopleYearsPersonsAmericaBlackJusticeRaceEducationRolesRiskAmountFitRacismAll ThingsHatredBlindCourtConservativeBrilliantSupremeProfessorsBlack PeopleCensorshipTomsSenatorsUnclesSupreme CourtEconomistRiceObedientTraitorStaggeringBlack PersonSupreme Court JusticeCourt JusticeUncle Tom Author:Juan Williams
“In black America there's such a thing as passing, the black people who are light skinned and they will pass for white.” PeopleLightAmericaBlackWhitePassingPassingsBlack PeopleBlack America Author:Juan Williams
“A lot of young black people in America, and even in Africa and Brazil, would say that they are telling their story, but most of the films are like application forms with the formulaic ideas of Hollywood.” PeopleIdeasStoriesAmericaFilmFormYoungBlackHollywoodApplicationBlack PeopleBrazil Author:Haile Gerima
“Racial oppression of black people in America has done what neither class oppression or sexual oppression, with all their perniciousness, has ever done: destroyed an entire people and their culture.” PeopleDoneAmericaCultureBlackClassRacismOppressionDestroyedBlack People Author:Eleanor Holmes Norton
“What would America be like if we loved black people as much as we loved black culture?” PeopleIfsAmericaCultureBlackBlack PeopleAppropriationBlack Culture Author:Amandla Stenberg
“Black people in America will never be free so long as they're on the white man's land. We can't be free until we get our own land and our own country in North America. When we separate from America and take maybe ten states, then we'll be free.” PeopleMenLongCountryStatesAmericaBlackWhiteLandTenBlack PeopleWhite ManNorth America Author:Muhammad Ali
“America don't have no future! America's going to be destroyed! Allah's going to divinely chastise America! Violence, crimes, earthquakes - there's gonna be all kinds of trouble. America's going to pay for all its lynchings and killings of slaves and what it's done to black people.” PeopleKindDoneAmericaBlackPayViolenceTroubleCrimeSlaveKillingAll KindsDestroyedBlack PeopleEarthquakesLynching Author:Muhammad Ali
“During the 19th-century struggle for womens rights in America, many saw a competition between rights for black people and those for women.” PeopleAmericaBlackStruggleSawsRightsCenturyCompetitionBlack PeopleWomens Rights19th CenturyRights In America Author:Karen DeCrow