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Countless black citizens in the South couldn't vote. They were second-class citizens from cradle to grave. The discrimination was terrible, brutal.

John Doar
Countless black citizens in the South couldn't vote. They were second-class citizens from cradle to grave. The discrimination was terrible, brutal.

My dad and uncles were among the 125,000 proud black American volunteers who, throughout their entire lives, considered their decision to serve during WWII as their greatest honor.

Burgess Owens
My dad and uncles were among the 125,000 proud black American volunteers who, throughout their entire lives, considered their decision to serve during WWII as their greatest honor.

We do not consecrate the flag by punishing its desecration, for in doing so, we dilute the freedom this cherished emblem represents.

William J. Brennan Jr.
We do not consecrate the flag by punishing its desecration, for in doing so, we dilute the freedom this cherished emblem represents.

There are an awful lot of people who despise government precisely because it opened the door for common citizenship for people of all races and all natures in the United States.

Taylor Branch
There are an awful lot of people who despise government precisely because it opened the door for common citizenship for people of all races and all natures in the United States.

Sensing an abandonment of Reconstruction, Frederick Douglass wondered what good abolition had been for the black man if having been freed from the slaveholder's lash, he is to be subject to the...

Ron Chernow Grant
Sensing an abandonment of Reconstruction, Frederick Douglass wondered what good abolition had been for the black man if having been freed from the slaveholder's lash, he is to be subject to the slaveholder's shotgun?

Cultural differences are real, and cannot be talked away by using pejorative terms such as "stereotypes" or "racism."

Thomas Sowell Civil Rights:...
Cultural differences are real, and cannot be talked away by using pejorative terms such as "stereotypes" or "racism."

We return. We return from fighting. We return fighting. Make way for Democracy! We saved it in France, and by the Great Jehovah, we will save it in the United States of America, or know the reason...

Timothy B. Tyson The Blood of...
We return. We return from fighting. We return fighting. Make way for Democracy! We saved it in France, and by the Great Jehovah, we will save it in the United States of America, or know the reason why.

Seeing that the lynching of Emmett Till was caused by the nature and history of America itself and by a social system that has changed over the decades, but not as much as we pretend. In "Letter from...

Timothy B. Tyson The Blood of...
Seeing that the lynching of Emmett Till was caused by the nature and history of America itself and by a social system that has changed over the decades, but not as much as we pretend. In "Letter from a Birmingham Jail," Martin Luther King Jr. writes that his worst enemies are not the members of Citizens' Councils or the Ku Klux Klan but "the white moderate" who claims to support the goals of the movement but deplores its methods of protest and deprecates its timetable for change: "We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the vitriolic words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people."10
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