{"quotes":[{"text":"They hate you not because of what you have done but because of who you are; you are different from who they are, and you are occupying the ground they want for themselves.","author":"Bangambiki Habyarimana","tags":["hate","hate-crimes","hate","haters","racism","racism-and-culture","racism-in-america","racism","racism","segregation"],"id":10868,"author_id":"Bangambiki+Habyarimana"},{"text":"I consider myself an American African because we did not come by choice.","author":"Alafia Stewart","tags":["african-americans","america","black-people","civil-rights","racism","segregation","slavery"],"id":24177,"author_id":"Alafia+Stewart"},{"text":"[O]ur revolt was as much against the traditional black leadership structure as it was against segregation and discrimination.","author":"John Lewis","tags":["black","civil-rights","civil-rights-movement","discrimination","revolt","revolution","segregation","traditional"],"id":31950,"author_id":"John+Lewis"},{"text":"The words 'bad timing' came to be ghosts haunting our every move in Birmingham. Yet people who used this argument were ignorant of the background of our planning...They did not realize that it was ridiculous to speak of timing when the clock of history showed that the Negro had already suffered one hundred years of delay.","author":"Martin Luther King Jr.","tags":["civil-rights","civil-rights-movement","history","martin-luther-king-jr","racism","racism-in-america","segregation","timing"],"id":46042,"author_id":"Martin+Luther+King+Jr."},{"text":"Segregation in the American South was bankrolled by the wealthy eugenicist from the Northeast, Wickliffe Draper.","author":"A.E. Samaan","tags":["american-south","civil-rights","civil-rights-act","civil-rights-movement","eugenicist","eugenics","harvard","race-hygiene","racial","racial-discrimination","racism","scientific-racism","segregation"],"id":57562,"author_id":"A.E.+Samaan"},{"text":"Pick a leader who will make their citizens proud. One who will stir the hearts of the people, so that the sons and daughters of a given nation strive to emulate their leader's greatness. Only then will a nation be truly great, when a leader inspires and produces citizens worthy of becoming future leaders, honorable decision makers and peacemakers. And in these times, a great leader must be extremely brave. Their leadership must be steered only by their conscience, not a bribe.","author":"Suzy Kassem","tags":["administration","airlines","bail","bail-out","banker","bankers","banking","banking-system","banks","best-leader","big-business","big-pharma","bipartisan","blood","books","brave","bravery","bribe","bridges","build-bridges","capitalism","censor","censorship","chaos","character","citizen","common-man","companies","confident","confident-leader","conscience","conservation","convergence","corporations","corrupt","corruption","country","critic","criticism","criticsm","darkness","decisionmakers","decison-makers","democrat","destruction","diplomacy","diplomatic","discriminate","discrimination","dissent","diversity","divide","divides","division","doctor","doctors","education","educators","election","elections","employment","environment","environmental","environmentalism","environmentalist","equality","ethnic-tolerance","fair","fairness","families","farmer","fear","for-the-people","foreign-relations","freedom","freedom-of-speech","funding","furture","future-leaders","good-leader","government","government-corruption","great-leader","great-leadership","great-nation","greatness","greed","guide","hands","hate","hatred","health-care","heart-driven","hearts","homes","honest","honest-broker","honorable","human-condition","human-life","humanity","humans","humble","hypocrisy","identify","ignorance","immaturity","immorality","improvement","incentives","indentifies","inspire","integrity","intellectualism","intelligent","job","jobs","justice","law","lawlessness","lead","leader","leaders","leadership","leadership-characteristics","leadership-traits","libraries","library","lie","lies","lobbyist","losing","love","make-america-great-again","man-on-the-street","mankind","monetary","monetary-profit","money","money-driven","morality","mortage","mortages","multinational","nation","oil","oil-tycoon","peace","peaceful","peacekeeper","peacemaker","peacemakers","people","pharma","pharmaceutical","pick-a-leader","picking-sides","political-science","politics","preservation","president","presidential","protection","public","race","race-tolerance","racism","religious-tolerance","republican","school","schools","scrutiny","secrecy","security","segregation","selecting","serves-the-people","silencing-dissent","sly","society","speech","spending","stability","street","street-level","strong","teacher","teachers","team","terror","tolerance","tolerate","transparency","truth","truthfulness","understand","understanding","unite","unites","uniting","unity","vote","voter","voting","walls","war","we-the-people","weapons","wisdom","word"],"id":77345,"author_id":"Suzy+Kassem"},{"text":"Ignoring the evils of our history will only cause them to reoccur.","author":"R.M. Donaldson","tags":["evil","history","history-politics","learning-from-history","segregation","truth"],"id":82250,"author_id":"R.M.+Donaldson"},{"text":"We were like captive animals that had lost the will to fight. We even went so far as to defend the very constraints that they hadimposed upon us.","author":"Manal Al-Sharif","tags":["daring-to-drive","driving","equality","inequality","jail","manal-al-sharif","patriarchal-society","right-to-drive","saudi-arabia","saudi-women","segregation","women-s-rights","women-to-drive"],"id":88503,"author_id":"Manal+Al-Sharif"},{"text":"To be born into, to go to school, to study, to learn, to play, to worship, to love, to work and to die in segregation and not have one single person who loved, mentored or guided me convey that there was any loss.","author":"Robin DiAngelo","tags":["deconstruction","racial-division","racism","segregation","white-privilege","white-supremacy"],"id":101898,"author_id":"Robin+DiAngelo"},{"text":"Public education is not broken. It is not failing or declining. The diagnosis is wrong, and the solutions of the corporate reformers are wrong. Our urban schools are in trouble because of concentrated poverty and racial segregation. But public education is not ‘broken.’ Public education is in a crisis only so far as society is and only so far as this new narrative of crisis has destabilized it.","author":"Diane Ravitch","tags":["broken","corporate-greed","corporations","education","poverty","public-education","racism","segregation","wrong"],"id":116958,"author_id":"Diane+Ravitch"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":42,"pages":5,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}