African american Quote by Barack Obama

Race is not the stumbling block to progress it once was, in large part because the Civil Rights Act of 1964 made it illegal…

— Norah Vincent

There clearly is a serious race problem in the country. Just take a look at what's happening to African American communities. For example wealth,…

— Noam Chomsky

It's the sad fact of how race still works in our country. We find that over and over again.

— Michael Emerson

We've done a very poor job at really reflecting on our legacy of racial inequality... You see it in the South, but it's everywhere.

— Bryan Stevenson

“the discrimination was ignored or discounted, and the fiscal habits of Black people were blamed for the growing fiscal inequities and segregation created by…

— Ibram X. Kendi

I am convinced that the minimum-wage law is the most anti-Negro law on our statute books in its effect, not its intent.

— Milton Friedman

If, in [Federal Housing Administration] application, black folks were excluded from it, then you have to override that by going after those discriminatory practices.

— Barack Obama

We must recognize that all the civil rights laws in the world are not going to solve the problem of minority underachievement. Ultimately, blacks…

— Richard Lamm

“The core argument of this book is that African Americans were unconstitutionally denied the means and the right to integration in middle-class neighborhoods, and…

— Richard Rothstein

“The challenge is more difficult because low-income African Americans today confront not only segregation but also the income stagnation and blocked mobility faced by…

— Richard Rothstein

We can't all work in the inner city. And, I don't even think that it is incumbent upon an African-American intellectual to be concerned…

— Henry Louis Gates

You don't need to visit a prison to know that racial inequality exists. There's enough talk about it, especially in Silicon Valley, to know…

— Christine Tsai