Blacks Quotes

323 quotes by 233 authors

Too many whites still see blacks as a group apart. — Constance Baker Motley
My work on human capital began with an effort to calculate both private and social rates of return to men, women, blacks, and other groups… — Gary Becker
Their prejudice allowed white Southerners to look the other way when blacks were denied their most basic human rights, and it encouraged the worst of… — Linda Chavez
Blacks don't square dance. If you see a black person square dancing, it is definitely the seventh sign. — Tommy Davidson
I think the idea is now for blacks to write about the history of our music. It's time for that, because whites have been doing… — Dizzy Gillespie
I love blacks and gays and latinos, as long as they don't live next door. — Mojo Nixon
I would sit in my room and become hysterical about the wild incredible story I was writing. And I thought I was writing realism. It… — Chester Himes
Today, blacks are no longer the litmus paper or the barometer of social change. Blacks are in every segment of society and there are laws… — Bayard Rustin
Indeed, in US politics, 'poverty', along with 'welfare', 'unwed mothers' and 'crime', became code words for blacks. — Frances Fox Piven
Surgery for early stage non-small cell lung cancer is standard treatment and is likely curative. Yet, fewer blacks than whites undergo surgery for the disease,… — Henry Ford
Before Obama, people barely noticed skin color; that goes back 150 years. Blacks were happy and grateful for what we were given. — Benjamin Carson
Blacks in the Caribbean, Britain, Canada and sub-Saharan Africa as well as in the United States have low IQ scores relative to whites. — J. Philippe Rushton
The poor are the blacks of Europe. — Nicolas Chamfort
The Confederate flag represents the same thing to blacks as the Nazi flag represents to Jews,. — Ken Page
We may be finding that in some blacks, when the choke hold is applied, the veins or arteries do not open up like in normal… — Daryl Gates
The War on Drugs, cloaked in race-neutral language, offered whites opposed to racial reform a unique opportunity to express their hostility toward blacks and black… — Michelle Alexander
There were times when I asked myself whether I was being principled or simply a coward.... I was wrapped in the cocoon of tennis early… — Arthur Ashe
I have nothing against a community that is made up of people who are Polish, or who are Czechoslovakians, or who are French Canadians or… — Jimmy Carter
I have no desire to take all black people back to Africa; there are blacks who are no good here and will likewise be no… — Marcus Garvey
Politicians will not put forth programs aimed at the problems of poor blacks while their turnout remains so low. — Henry Louis Gates

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