African Americans Quotes
145 quotes by 118 authors
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Latinos, Asians, African-Americans, women - we're all trying to find our place in this world of cinema and television and theater. And the great thing…
— Sandra Bullock
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African-Americans have been brainwashed into not being open-minded, not even considering a conservative point of view. I have received some of that same vitriol simply…
— Herman Cain
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This whole notion that all African-Americans are not going to vote for Obama is not necessarily true. I believe a third would vote for me,…
— Herman Cain
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When you talk about evangelicals, don't forget that a significant proportion of the evangelical community is African American. And most African Americans - well over…
— Tony Campolo
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Indians were here first - it's about time. We're way behind the African Americans and Hispanic Americans in getting politically involved, but we're beginning to…
— Ben Nighthorse Campbell
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During the days of segregation, there was not a place of higher learning for African Americans. They were simply not welcome in many of the…
— Michael N. Castle
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In the United States, the Supreme Court's decision of 1954, outlawing segregation in school systems, was greeted with mixed feelings of hope and skepticism by…
— John Henrik Clarke
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When I was 17, I worked in a mentoring program in Harlem designed to improve the community. That's when I first gained an appreciation of…
— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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Most African Americans, if given a chance, would have chosen to be 'just Americans' ever since the first of us was brought here to Jamestown…
— Clarence Page
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People have been killing because of racial differences since the time of Adam and Eve, but in this country racism has been primarily aimed at…
— Bob Cousy
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When women got the vote, they did not redefine voting. When African-Americans got the right to sit at a lunch counter alongside white people, they…
— Cynthia Nixon
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Well, I'm a daughter of the great migration as, really, the majority of African Americans that you meet in the north and west are products…
— Isabel Wilkerson
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African-American women who develop breast cancer are more likely to die from the disease than White women of the same age. Survival rates are worse…
— Frank C. Garland
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It's often said that you learn more from defeat than victory and the RNC has certainly taken that to heart. After difficult losses in 2012,…
— Alice Stewart
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How is this any different than the big boat argument of people when it came to African-Americans after the Civil War, decided, 'Put them on…
— Chris Matthews
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An environmental revolution is taking shape in the United States. This revolution has touched communities of color from New York to California and from Florida…
— Robert D Bullard
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African Americans watch the same news at night that ordinary Americans do.
— William J. Clinton
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We were born with natural rights. We don't need civil rights. [African-Americans] don't need civil rights. They don't need them. They have inalienable rights granted…
— Chuck Woolery
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I don’t believe it is possible to transcend race in this country. Race is a factor in this society. The legacy of Jim Crow and…
— Barack Obama
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Will African-Americans break away from the pack thinking and reject immorality-- because that's the reason the family's breaking apart--alcohol, drugs, infidelity. You have to reject…
— Bill O'Reilly
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