Groups that work in black neighborhoods around the country…

I was brought up in black neighborhoods in South Baltimore. And we really felt like we were very black. We acted black and we…

— Jerry Leiber

Subprime lending is growing faster in black areas than in white areas.

— Bill Dedman

What began as a subprime lending problem has spread to other, less risky mortgages and contributed to excess home inventories that have pushed down…

— Henry Paulson

Home ownership was the fig leaf for the rise in subprime lending. But that was really about cash-out refinancings, not buying homes.

— Bethany McLean

I look at subprime lending and I see the American dream in action.

— Phil Gramm

“Hispanic and African American neighborhoods had been targeted by the subprime lending industry: renters were lured into buying bad mortgages, and homeowners were encouraged…

— Matthew Desmond

We also must pull from our highest ideals of justice and protect against those ills that destabilized our economy - like predatory lending, over-leveraged…

— Cory Booker

The mortgage crisis is a clear instance of consumers who needed protection. There was predatory lending to people who didn't know what they were…

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

North Carolina's approach in crafting its law ensured the creation of the best possible law and, consequently, North Carolina is now the acknowledged leader…

— Mel Watt

Why don't we call on the credit card companies to be accountable? They need to be held accountable for their predatory lending practices.

— Paul Wellstone

When I was the Attorney General of California, running the second largest Department of Justice only to the United States Department of Justice, it…

— Kamala Harris

There are clear patterns of discrimination against Blacks and Latinos. The big banks targeted Blacks and Latinos with toxic packages of subprime predatory lending.

— Jesse Jackson

“The vicious housing cycle had already begun. Racist policies harmed Black neighborhoods, generating racist ideas that caused people not to want to live next…

— Ibram X. Kendi

I lived in a little working-class town that had no black neighborhoods at all - one high school. We all played together. Everybody was…

— Toni Morrison

I grew up in predominantly black neighborhoods and went to predominantly black schools. And hip-hop is what I grew up listening to in my…

— Mark Wahlberg