Black Power Quotes

“In many instances Christianity provides Communism with its justification. Communism is paying the unpaid bills of the Christian church.”
― Richard Wright, Black Power: The Color Curtain / Black Power / White Man, Listen!

“One of the greatest ironies of the twentieth century is that when communication has reached its zenith, when the human voice can encircle the globe in a matter of seconds, when man can project the image of his face thousands of miles, it is almost impossible to know with any degree of accuracy the truth of a political situation only a hundred miles distant! Propaganda jams the media of communication.”
― Richard Wright, Black Power: The Color Curtain / Black Power / White Man, Listen!

“Contrite words cannot now stop profound processes which white men set in motion on this earth some four hundred years ago; four hundred years is a long time…time enough for habits, reactions, to be converted into culture, tradition, into a raison d’être for millions….”
― Richard Wright, Black Power: The Color Curtain / Black Power / White Man, Listen!

“As the importance of ideology declined, I began to feel that maybe ideology was a weapon that suited only certain hostile conditions of life.”
― Richard Wright, Black Power: The Color Curtain / Black Power / White Man, Listen!

“threats of war can frighten into submission no one who is determined to resist. They can only place the threat-makers in a more isolated and confused position.”
― Richard Wright, Black Power: The Color Curtain / Black Power / White Man, Listen!