Accumulation Quote by Barack Obama

Look at the [Bill] Clinton Administration and now the [Barack] Obama administration more recently. What we believe is that we implement policies that help…

— Debbie Wasserman Schultz

We need policies that will benefit the middle class because you will not have a strong society without a strong middle class, fundamentally.

— Trish Regan

The historical basis for the gap between the black middle class and underclass shows that ending discrimination, by itself, would not eradicate black poverty…

— Henry Louis Gates

Segregations, by which I mean people living in a certain area, was a planned system. It was made that way. And what you have…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

We need to intentionally invest in health, in home ownership, in entrepreneurship, in access to democracy, in economic empowerment. If we don't do these…

— Pete Buttigieg

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

Federal government has been a gateway to the middle class for people of color for generations.

— Tom Perez

Housing programs designed to help young families and senior citizens purchase homes should be available to people of all races, including African Americans.

— Loretta Lynch

“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

When you look at the wealth gap - the racial wealth gap - all of that is very much connected to housing.

— Raphael Warnock

The black population now consists of two distinct classes-the middle class and the poor.

— Constance Baker Motley

We must develop a federal program of public works, retraining, and jobs for all - so that none, white or black, will have cause…

— Martin Luther King, Jr