Complexes Quote by Andrew Young

I think we've made tremendous progress on racism. We've even made progress on war. We've made almost no progress on poverty.

— Andrew Young

We forgot that Martin Luther King, Jr. changed his discourse toward the end of his life because he understood that the real fundamental problem…

— Raoul Peck

Even in the era of the first black president, racism is still the most intractable issue in USA. Regarding poverty, half of all Americans…

— Tavis Smiley

Martin Luther King Jr's agenda was not to help Negroes overcome American apartheid in the south. It was to make America democracy a better…

— Cornel West

Martin Luther King demeans his race and retards the advancement of his people.

— Strom Thurmond

“There is no Black person here who can afford to wait to be led into positive action for survival. Each one of us must…

— Audre Lorde

If Martin Luther King came back, he'd say we need another civil rights movement built on class not race.

— Henry Louis Gates

“You can’t talk about solving the economic problem of the Negro without talking about billions of dollars. You can’t talk about ending the slums…

— John Nichols

Martin Luther King wanted to be morally consistent and speak out against various things that were wrong, not just racism.

— Cornel West

Dr. [Martin Luther] King led a very historic march here in Washington, D.C. It was a march for jobs and freedom. It was a…

— Donna Brazile

Since the day Martin Luther King was killed, the black middle classes have almost quadrupled, but the percentage of black children living on or…

— Henry Louis Gates

America certainly has made extraordinary progress. The collective unconscious of the nation has certainly shifted as a result of the civil rights movement and…

— Michael Eric Dyson