Blacks Quotes
323 quotes by 233 authors
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Too many whites still see blacks as a group apart.
— Constance Baker Motley
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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
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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
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Blacks don't square dance. If you see a black person square dancing, it is definitely the seventh sign.
— Tommy Davidson
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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
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I love blacks and gays and latinos, as long as they don't live next door.
— Mojo Nixon
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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
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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
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Indeed, in US politics, 'poverty', along with 'welfare', 'unwed mothers' and 'crime', became code words for blacks.
— Frances Fox Piven
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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
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Before Obama, people barely noticed skin color; that goes back 150 years. Blacks were happy and grateful for what we were given.
— Benjamin Carson
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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
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The poor are the blacks of Europe.
— Nicolas Chamfort
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The Confederate flag represents the same thing to blacks as the Nazi flag represents to Jews,.
— Ken Page
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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