African americans Quotes

The criminal justice system is rigged against African Americans.

— Eddie Griffin

“No one likes being stereotyped, not African-Americans and not cops.”

— David O. Brown

What we, as African Americans, stood on was our faith.

— Ruby Bridges

The police killings of unarmed African Americans has got to stop.

— Bernie Sanders

The struggle of African Americans is everybody's struggle.

— Eric Garcetti

African-Americans are underrepresented.

— Arlen Specter

Liberal whites are the greatest enemy of African Americans.

— James Meredith

“An inch of gold can't buy an inch of time”

— Nicole Mones

African-Americans have rarely been the beneficiaries of Presidential rhetorical excess.

— Julianne Malveaux

“& lord knows I have been called by what I look like more than I have been called by what I actually am”

— Hanif Abdurraqib

From politics and business to music and food to culture, African-Americans have helped to shape our state's colourful past and its future.

— Mary Landrieu

I was very fortunate to be able to represent an icon to many African Americans.

— Usher

To me, Harlem is one of the most important places on the earth, particularly when it comes to talking about African Americans.

— Cheo Hodari Coker

“African-Americans are just as likely to harbor racist attitudes as white people.”

— Ben Carson

The people who suffer in the Obama economy have been young people, African Americans, Hispanics, single moms.

— Ted Cruz

There were many African Americans - many, many stories similar to my story.

— Claudette Colvin

It's unfortunate that [Louis] Brandeis was not able to translate or abstract his devotion to cultural pluralism and racial equality as he…

— Jeffrey Rosen

I think there are profound differences between the civil rights struggle for African Americans and the civil rights struggle for gay Americans.

— Christopher Rice

“until the last quarter of the twentieth century, racially explicit policies of federal, state, and local governments defined where whites and African…

— Richard Rothstein

The president is not doing well with African Americans. His popularity rating - his approval rating - with blacks: two percent. Two…

— Bill Maher

Since the nations founding, African Americans repeatedly have been controlled through institutions such as slavery and Jim Crow, which appear to die…

— Michelle Alexander

“Our endurance and suffering made us stronger than they can imagine. We became so strong that it takes only one of our…

— De philosopher DJ Kyos

When people try to take your culture away from you, your essence of your culture becomes stronger. It's like even in Africa.…

— Gavin Friday

America is not perfect. It took a bloody civil war to free over 4 million African Americans who lived enslaved. It took…

— Marco Rubio

We have seen a man dragged to death in Texas simply because he was black. A young man murdered in Wyoming simply…

— William J. Clinton

“those African Americans who did manage to penetrate the skilled trades mostly were consigned to low-wage work. According to Social Security Administration…

— Karl Alexander

But at the end of the day, I refuse to believe there arent more qualified African-Americans, women, people of color in general…

— Tony Clark

“[I] would argue that native-born blacks are so vastly less "African" than actual Africans that calling ourselves 'African American' is not only…

— John McWhorter

For complicated historical and political reasons, we associate 'poor' in our public consciousness with 'black.' Terms such as 'welfare queen' and 'culture…

— J. D. Vance

“In the month of his inauguration, 63 percent of African Americans held a favorable view of race relations in America. By July…

— Jack Cashill

Will African-Americans break away from the pack thinking and reject immorality-- because that's the reason the family's breaking apart--alcohol, drugs, infidelity. You…

— Bill O'Reilly

We've had now eight years and there's this prideful sense among many African Americans. When you think about how elated they are…

— Ed Gordon

“And she got the feeling that Boots Smith's relationship to this swiftly moving car was no ordinary one. He wasn't just a…

— Ann Petry

“Within half a century after Butler sent Charles Mallory away from Fortress Monroe empty-handed, the children of white Union and Confederate soldiers…

— Edward E. Baptist

The Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the Bill of Rights were all written by affluent white males, but to discuss them…

— Russell Freedman

“She told him the origins of the “buck dance,” when “white people would come up and say ‘N____r, dance’, and then start…

— Stephen M. Ward

“I don't want people to think I mind being mistaken for African American. I don't. There are, however, many African immigrants in…

— Nadia Owusu

“I thought about how Juneteenth is a holiday that inspires so much celebration, born from circumstances imbued with so much tragedy. Enslavers…

— Clint Smith

Most Americans who made it past the fourth grade have a pretty good idea who Thurgood Marshall, Rosa Parks, and Martin Luther…

— Louis Menand

“We need a powerful sense of determination to banish the ugly blemish of racism scarring the image of America. We can, of…

— Martin Luther King Jr