Civil Rights: What black folks are given in the U.S. on the installment plan, as in civil-rights bills. Not to be confused with hu...man rights, which are the dignity, stature, humanity, respect, and freedom belonging to all people by right of their birth.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color-line--the relation of the darker to the lighter races of men in A...sia and Africa, in America and the islands of the sea. It was a phase of this problem that caused the Civil War.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The Twist was a guided missile, launched from the ghetto into the very heart of suburbia. The Twist succeeded, as politics, religi...on, and law could never do, in writing in the heart and soul what the Supreme Court could only write on the books.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Americans think of themselves collectively as a huge rescue squad on twenty-four-hour call to any spot on the globe where dispute ...and conflict may erupt.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
No people can more exactly interpret the inmost meaning of the present situation in Ireland than the American Negro. The scheme is... simple. You knock a man down and then have him arrested for assault. You kill a man and then hang the corpse.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Histories of the world omitted China; if a Chinaman invented compass or movable type or gunpowder we promptly "forgot it" and name...d their European inventors. In short, we regarded China as a sort of different and quite inconsequential planet.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There are certain books in the world which every searcher for truth must know: the Bible, the Critique of Pure Reason, the Origin ...of Species, and Karl Marx's Capital.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Is a civilization naturally backward because it is different? Outside of cannibalism, which can be matched in this country, at lea...st, by lynching, there is no vice and no degradation in native African customs which can begin to touch the horrors thrust upon them by white masters. Drunkenness, terrible diseases, immorality, all these things have been gifts of European civilization.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »