I'm one of the few Black writers, or African American writers, who managed to work my way through the system so that… — James McBride Copy Share Image
This is America, where a white Catholic male Republican judge was murdered on his way to greet a Democratic Jewish woman member… — Mark Shields Copy Share Image
“One of the most commonly used American history textbooks is The Americans: Reconstruction to the 21st Century. A thousand-page volume, published by… — Richard Rothstein Copy Share Image
Money is no good unless it contributes something to the community, unless it builds a bridge to a better life. Any man… — A. G. Gaston Copy Share Image
“More African American adults are under correctional control today – in prison or jail, on probation or parole – than were enslaved… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
Reinvigorating the Civil Rights Division of the Justice Department, making sure that in our Department of Education, where we see evidence of… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Many White people are not sensitive to the kind of abuse that African Americans, especially younger African Americans, receive at the hands… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
“African American racial consciousness responds to the horrors of the Middle Passage and New World slavery as well as to the unfulfilled… — Bruce Dain Copy Share Image
I get tired of hearing people, well-meaning people, talking about African-American kids or Hispanic kids as if they're all the same. Which… — Jeb Bush Copy Share Image
Currently, more than 4.7 million African Americans receive Social Security benefits, and nearly 8 million people with disabilities depend on Social Security… — Chaka Fattah Copy Share Image
“Some of us have been hiding, shrinking, betraying ourselves, faking the funk, and playing small for so long that we believe that… — Abiola Abrams Copy Share Image
I get so tickled when that pilot happens to be an African American because I rarely see that. The same is true… — Marcus Samuelsson Copy Share Image
“The racial dimension of mass incarceration is its most striking feature. No other country in the world imprisons so many of its… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
One thing that sticks in my mind is that jazz means freedom and openness. It's a music that, although it developed out… — Herbie Hancock Copy Share Image
What I consider to be the barometer for what is a rock artist and what is not, is somebody who has a… — Ian Astbury Copy Share Image
I find that people today tend to use them interchangeably. I use African-American, because I teach African Studies as well as African-American… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
Oh, I love labels, as long as they are numerous. I'm an American writer. I'm a Nigerian writer. I'm a Nigerian American… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
If it were in our national security to deploy to South Africa under apartheid, would we have found it acceptable or customary… — Martha McSally Copy Share Image
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“public statements condemning segregation, sharply worded telegrams to Washington, and meetings with White House officials—were demonstrably ineffectual. New and more dramatic measures… — Stephen M. Ward Copy Share Image
Funny enough though, despite what Donald Trump has to say and the way African-American people are portrayed so often in media, African-American… — Lynn Whitfield Copy Share Image
African-American men are more likely to be killed in police incidents, stopped and searched, and sentenced to longer prison terms than white… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
I have been guilty of watching Westerns without acknowledging that Native Americans have gone through the same madness as African Americans. Isn't… — Judith Jamison Copy Share Image
Black people are dying in this country because we have a criminal justice system which is out of control, a system in… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
My father was one of the first Tae Kwon Do Masters to come to the states in the '60s. He had one… — Will Yun Lee Copy Share Image
I will never again play anything that does not have social significance. We American jazz musicians of African descent have proved beyond… — Max Roach Copy Share Image
There could be no more powerful argument against mixing religion and government than the success of independent African American churches in placing… — Susan Jacoby Copy Share Image
I do believe that there are African Americans who have thick accents. My mom has a thick accent; my relatives have thick… — Viola Davis Copy Share Image
I have much more confidence in my ability, or any president or any leader's ability, to mobilize the American people around a… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Of course, we have leaders in the African American community as well that we've all worked with. One of the great rewards… — Dolores Huerta Copy Share Image
The tyranny of Harvard and Yale is another thing that transcends this problem of the set point. But what's so striking about… — Jeffrey Rosen Copy Share Image
“To review briefly, in the late 1960s, men got paid more than women (usually double) for doing the exact same job. Women… — Susan J. Douglas Copy Share Image
I was just so honored to play the role of Cinderella and to just be the first African-American princess, that's just historic… — Brandy Norwood Copy Share Image
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'The Cosby Show' - no one thought there's doctors and lawyers who are married and live in brownstones! Back then no one… — Keshia Knight Pulliam Copy Share Image
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You make real progress when somebody is honest enough to say something that's really uncomfortable. Of course when you're a candidate's wife… — Jodi Kantor Copy Share Image
Well, what I will tell you is the support from the world - it's not just an African-American citizen. There are people… — Sharon Cooper Copy Share Image
Black people dominate sports in the United States. 20% of the population and 90% of the final four. We own this shit.… — Chris Rock Copy Share Image
I think what Donald [Trump] is saying is that it's unacceptable to him that members of the African-American community - and I'm… — Chris Christie Copy Share Image
![“The tyranny of Harvard and Yale is another thing that transcends this problem of the set point. But what's so striking about [Louis] Brandeis is he had this vision of cultural pluralism that completely gave the lie to the idea that there was any inconsistency between being Jewish or being a woman…” quote by Jeffrey Rosen](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/862/jeffrey-rosen-13180_african-american_the-tyranny-of-harvard-and-yale-is-anoth_2229543.jpg)
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