I think there is a big difference between expressing the pain and anger that many African Americans and other people of color… — Michael Nutter Copy Share Image
I think young people don't really know that much about the Civil Rights Movement and about the history of African Americans in… — Don Lemon Copy Share Image
Barack Obama's victories in 2008 and 2012 were dismissed by some of his critics as merely symbolic for African Americans. But there… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
I would be a president for all of the people, African- Americans, the inner cities. Devastating what's happening to our inner cities.… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
Without external pressure, things might have gone very differently. That has always been true for African Americans; the better we've been at… — Michael C Dawson Copy Share Image
Let me tell you, never before in the history of this planet has anybody made the progress that African-Americans have made in… — Dick Gregory Copy Share Image
There is a reason that many African Americans have a healthy mistrust for law enforcement. We don't always feel protected or served… — Sterling K. Brown Copy Share Image
“I had seen a photograph of Emmett Till's body just after it was pulled from the river. I had seen photographs of… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
When you're dealing with African Americans, family is everything. Because we spend so much time talking about how one treats one's family.… — Cheo Hodari Coker Copy Share Image
My school was pretty much all African Americans, but it was still a little tough to be in because I didn't have… — Ryan Coogler Copy Share Image
I don't think there are any pure Africans of the African Americans, but the African part of our history was pretty much… — Herbie Hancock Copy Share Image
Black Panther is a historic opportunity to be a part of something important and special, particularly at a time when African Americans… — Joe Robert Cole Copy Share Image
One of the ongoing crises in America is institutional racism. We have a very broken criminal justice system. We live in a… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
“The gap that was created during those transatlantic voyages hundreds of years ago. That gap is the matrix of Saudade – The… — Bonnie Greer Copy Share Image
Despite all of the civil rights gains of the past several decades, when it comes to economic opportunity, African Americans and Latinos… — Sasha Abramsky Copy Share Image
You take for example the environmental movement is a big deal in my district. You know, you might say, yeah, more African… — Keith Ellison Copy Share Image
“While appreciating its accomplishments, we must acknowledge that the legal end of segregation fell short of bringing African Americans to full equality.… — Bobby Seale Copy Share Image
“Rochester became a magnet for African Americans in the twentieth century, one of many northern industrial cities that blacks flocked to during… — Rick Wartzman Copy Share Image
“Human Rights Watch reported in 2000 that, in seven states, African Americans constitute 80 to 90 percent of all drug offenders sent… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
“...(I)t can be stated that the spread of the ideology connecting Africa and black people in general with the Jews has been… — Tudor Parfitt Copy Share Image
“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
“Streets like the one she lived on were no accident. They were the North’s lynch mobs, she thought bitterly; the method the… — Ann Petry Copy Share Image
“There is no reason for you to try to become like white people and there is no basis whatever for their impertinent… — James Baldwin 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
African-Americans want to be safe in their community, like any other nationality that lives in America. They don't want to be robbed.… — Ras Baraka Copy Share Image
“Programmed in self-hatred, many of us shadow-box the light of day away and chase everything meaningless the night through until we perish… — D. Allen Miller Copy Share Image
As long as white people put people of color, African Americans and Latinos, in the same dispensable bag, and look at our… — Claudette Colvin Copy Share Image
Just knowing the history of WWE, I know there haven't been a lot of African Americans that have come through and been… — Naomi Copy Share Image
I think you will find that a lot of young African-Americans are really searching for, 'Who am I?' and 'Where did I… — Linda Johnson Rice Copy Share Image
Eight generations of African-Americans are still waiting to achieve their rights - compensation and restitution for the hundreds of years during which… — Cynthia McKinney Copy Share Image
I have a very personal interest. I am a Miami-Dade voter. One of the issues is that my vote and so many… — Patricia Ireland Copy Share Image
I am the executive director of the Black Alliance for Just Immigration, which is the country's only national immigrant rights organization for… — Opal Tometi Copy Share Image
Groups like the NAACP, The Anti-Defamation League, NOW and GLAAD, will respond to derisive language directed at their constituents. The price paid… — John C. McGinley Copy Share Image
During the Great Depression African Americans understood that Republicans championed citizenship and voting rights, but they became impatient for economic emancipation. — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
As African-Americans, we don't start with a blank slate, while other people may. In our position, there's always some sort of stereotype… — Xavier Woods Copy Share Image
They are trying to lock up as many of us up as possible to put us in penitentiaries for free labor. You… — Eddie Griffin Copy Share Image
African-Americans are as fair as any other group, but they bring their life experiences to bear as just as whites bring their… — Alan Dershowitz Copy Share Image
The Great Migration can get forgotten if we don't pay attention or bear witness to it. It's part of my personal history… — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
During the Great Depression, African Americans were faced with problems that were not unlike those experienced by the most disadvantaged groups in… — William Julius Wilson Copy Share Image
Well, I'm a daughter of the great migration as, really, the majority of African Americans that you meet in the north and… — Isabel Wilkerson Copy Share Image
