Boycotts have been a critical part of social justice in American history, particularly for African-Americans. — Stacey Abrams Copy Share Image
As African Americans, we always have to fight for inclusion, despite your moral background: Christian, Muslim, Jewish - it doesn't matter. — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
Delaware State is no longer a college for African Americans without other choices, it is a university of choice. — Michael N. Castle Copy Share Image
African Americans have always known that a little bit of paranoia was healthy for us. — Cynthia McKinney Copy Share Image
“I swear that white folks need to just shut the hell up sometimes. Y'all make it hard for everybody.” — Kiese Laymon Copy Share Image
Happy black history month to all my African Americans thanks to all the African American men and women who lead us so… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I saw him enthusiastically greet a hulking big African American (Do they call them African Americans here?).” — Brett Kiellerop-Morris Copy Share Image
I need to point out that African-Americans are not a monolith and do not operate in groupthink. — Omarosa Manigault Newman Copy Share Image
According to the American Heart Association, the prevalence of hypertension in African Americans in the United States is among the highest in… — Xavier Becerra Copy Share Image
Most African Americans, especially the men and women from my generation, would accept the nationalist gambit that says only European Americans can… — Anthony Braxton Copy Share Image
For African-Americans, it's still going to be - some people say double hard - I'd say four times as hard. Be an… — Claudette Colvin Copy Share Image
“Since the white man's personality is greatly distorted by segregation, and his soul is greatly scarred, he needs the love of the… — Martin Luther King Jr Copy Share Image
The national media which I consider to be very racist against European Americans and I think they have caused the incitement of… — David Duke Copy Share Image
“For African Americans, unfreedom is the historical norm. Enslavement lasted for nearly 250 years. The 150 years that followed have encompassed debt… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
Clearly, a large number of African-Americans don't have faith that the laws are being executed fairly in Ferguson, and that's a problem...… — Claire McCaskill Copy Share Image
Once there are more African Americans and Asian Americans behind the scenes as producers, writers, and directors, I think more inclusive casting… — Nicole Ari Parker Copy Share Image
“Merely reducing sentence length, by itself, does not disturb the basic architecture of the New Jim Crow. So long as large numbers… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
“If I knew anything about being black in America it was that nothing was guaranteed, you couldn't count on a thing, and… — Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah Copy Share Image
Yeah, remember, under the Bush administration, welfare — I mean, excuse me, poverty among African Americans and among single unmarried women, poverty… — Rick Santorum Copy Share Image
I'll tell you what, our inner cities are so, so bad right now. The danger, the crime, the lack of education, no… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
“African-American writers with an independent vision are often consigned to obscurity. The white critics can only tolerate one black writer at a… — Ishmael Reed Copy Share Image
“That morning, like every morning, the first decision he made regarded his Blackness. His skin was a deep, constant brown. In public,… — Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah Copy Share Image
All my playmates were black. I lived in a little community called Archery (ph) in a rural area. And I didn't have… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
“If federal programs were not, even to this day, reinforcing racial isolation by disproportionately directing low-income African Americans who receive housing assistance… — Richard Rothstein Copy Share Image
“Lieutenant Thomas R. Gilligan, thirty-seven, was off duty and out of uniform, checking out TVs in an electronics store. He went to… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
“So much was lost - names, faces, ages, ethnic identities - that African Americans must do what no other ethnic group writ… — Michael W. Twitty Copy Share Image
“I have often wondered whether the white people who know we are kin actually see us as family. It's critical for me… — Michael W. Twitty Copy Share Image
Jim Jones started out as a civil rights crusader in Indianapolis. As a young preacher in the mid-50s, he used members of… — Julia Scheeres Copy Share Image
“In the American way of life pleasure involves comfort, convenience, and sexual stimulation. Pleasure, so defined, has little to do with the… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
“Rev. [Martin Luther] King continued, chanting, singing his prophetic litany. We were one people, indivisible in the sight of God, responsible to… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
“what do African Americans get in return for our loyalty? Very little. Democrats do not champion black causes with the same passion… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
“In America the magazines in which one can frequently publish stories or poems about Negroes are very few, and most of these… — Langston Hughes Copy Share Image
The South has not always been the friendliest place for African-Americans. — Mary Landrieu Copy Share Image
African American history is really American history because African Americans really helped build this country. — Don Lemon Copy Share Image
As African-Americans, we often spend our time and energy blaming other people for the problems we see around us. — Pearl Cleage Copy Share Image
The highest percentage of African Americans own their own homes today than ever in our nation's history. — Ed Gillespie Copy Share Image
Our most polluted neighborhoods are disproportionately home to Latinos, African Americans, and other communities of color. — Jimmy Gomez Copy Share Image
Civil rights was not an impossible dream. Thousands of brave African Americans stepped forward to make it happen. — Martin O'Malley Copy Share Image
“because white men can't police their imagination black people are dying” — Claudia Rankine Copy Share Image
If Black and African-Americans could participate in our economy at the same level that others do, it'd be a boost to GDP… — Doug McMillon Copy Share Image
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