African american Quote by Barack Obama

Until racial justice and freedom is a reality in this land, our union will remain profoundly imperfect.

— Hubert H. Humphrey

“Where the really sincere white people have got to do their “proving” of themselves is not among the black victims, but out on the…

— Malcolm X

The sprinkling of people of color through elite institutions in the United States, due to affirmative action policies and the limited progress of middle-class…

— Michelle Alexander

The history of the African American community is one of enduring, relentless struggle with a vision of accepting nothing less than full social and…

— Danny K. Davis

“African American racial consciousness responds to the horrors of the Middle Passage and New World slavery as well as to the unfulfilled promise of…

— Bruce Dain

“I tell sincere white people, 'Work in conjunction with us- each of us working among our own kind.' Let sincere white individuals find all…

— Malcolm X

Well, certainly one of the ironies of the success of affirmative action is that the middle class within the black community no longer lives…

— Henry Louis Gates

“This is why many liberals have fallen into the trap of seeing integration in merely aesthetic terms, where a token number of Negroes adds…

— Martin Luther King Jr

The perception of linked fate and that feeling of being always on the spot as a representative of the race, at least in mixed…

— Randall Kennedy

“That old unionism was, however, very different from the kind we live with now. We do not live with an ideal, sometimes on the…

— Robert Penn Warren

“This promise - that you will get more because they exist to get less - is woven throughout our entire society. Our politics, our…

— Ijeoma Oluo