African american Quote by Barack Obama

We had particular policies in this country that resulted in the larger share of poverty that we have in African-American communities.

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

I don't want to exaggerate; having as many African American men as we've had in the criminal-justice system, and the amount of time it…

— Barack Obama

If you want to get at African American poverty, the income gap, wealth gap, achievement gap, that the most important thing is to make…

— Barack Obama

Free markets, hard work, and morality will benefit blacks and all Americans.

— Jesse Lee Peterson

African-Americans now 45 percent poverty in the inner cities. The education is a disaster. Jobs are essentially nonexistent.

— Donald Trump

Too many American families go bankrupt from healthcare expenses, and low wage workers have to hold two or three jobs just to make ends…

— Deb Haaland

Despite all of the civil rights gains of the past several decades, when it comes to economic opportunity, African Americans and Latinos still experience…

— Sasha Abramsky

To see, once again, that African American students are more likely to have a limited math curriculum and an underpaid novice teacher is disheartening…

— Chaka Fattah

Imagine if you had genuine, high-quality early-childhood education for every child, and suddenly every black child in America - but also every poor white…

— Barack Obama

From their resilience through the brutalities of slavery to the ongoing fight for equity, African Americans have played a critical role as the economic…

— Al N. Green

There are too many African-Americans with too much money for us to have to go to anybody else for anything in terms of schools,…

— James Avery

African American children can't be educationally disadvantaged for 12 years and then experience a miracle cure when it comes time for admission into college.

— Chaka Fattah