“I never doubted my ability, but when you hear all your life you're inferior, it makes you wonder if the other guys have something you've never seen before. If they do, I'm still looking for it.”— Hank Aaron
“For me, the most terrible thing about South Africa is not the great injustices, but the little personal injustices.”— Peter Abrahams
“To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships.”— W. E. B. Du Bois
“The 'educated Negroes' have the attitude of contempt toward their own people because in their own as well as in their mixed schools they are taught to admire the Hebrew, the Greek, the Latin and the Teuton and to despise the African.”— Carter G. Woodson
“The thought of the inferiority of the Negro is drilled into him in almost every class he enters and in almost every book he studies.”— Carter G. Woodson
“On the field, blacks have been able to be superstars. But once our playing days are over, this is the end of it and we go back to the back of the bus.”— Hank Aaron
“The logic behind white domination is to prepare the black man for the subservient role in this country.”— Steve Biko
“White people are the major beneficiaries of the social system they have created, and they are not about to give it up voluntarily.”— John Henrik Clarke
“When feminism does not explicitly oppose racism, and when anti-racism does not incorporate opposition to patriarchy, race and gender politics often end up being counterproductive.”— Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw