The whole future of America's black community is at risk. One out of every three young black men in Washington, D.C., is under one arm or the other of the criminal justice system. These are the continuing consequences of slavery. — Randall Robinson Copy Share Image
The U.S. has the largest prison population in the world: two million people. One out of every eight prisoners in the world is an African American. We are warehousing people as a profit to shareholders or for benefits to communities… — Randall Robinson Copy Share Image
I'm aware that because America is so powerful - with its tentacles reaching out to the world - one doesn't escape it by leaving.… — Randall Robinson Copy Share Image
Democracy requires that if you who don't like the outcome of elections you have to tolerate it and then pursue your interest the next… — Randall Robinson Copy Share Image
Black people in America have to, for their own protection, develop a defense mechanism, and I just grew terribly tired of it. When you sustain that kind of affront, and sustain it and sustain it and sustain it, something happens to you. You try to steer a course in American society that's not self-destructive. But America is a country that… — Randall Robinson Copy Share
Whites have more than eleven times the net worth or wealth of African Americans. They make greater salaries. Our unemployment rate is twice theirs.… — Randall Robinson Copy Share Image
“Unbalanced power poisons introspection. In its vacated space lay living society's imperative questions, unseen, unphrased, unasked, unanswered.” — Randall Robinson Copy Share Image
I think people involved with institutions find it harder to know the time to go than the time to come. — Randall Robinson Copy Share Image
I've never had any trouble opposing people I've been close to. I've never worried about offending or bothering people I feel strongly about. — Randall Robinson Copy Share Image
Reagan was conservative, but he didn't approach global management with an unbending religious zeal. — Randall Robinson Copy Share Image
The whole future of America's black community is at risk. One out of every three young black men in Washington, D.C., is under one… — Randall Robinson Copy Share Image
I don't know of any situation where you're going to have an officeholder in a country of eight million people who's cut off at… — Randall Robinson Copy Share Image
We all have to die, and I preferred to have just one death. It seems to me that to suffer insult without response is… — Randall Robinson Copy Share Image
I got a chance to be in a society where the barriers between classes - social and economic - are not insuperable, where money… — Randall Robinson Copy Share Image
