America Quote by Chokwe Lumumba

I find it really unique that the black community, who has been oppressed and is still oppressed, can find a way to oppress themselves,…

— Trevante Rhodes

It really is systematic oppression that is so deeply ingrained into the very fabric of American society... Shedding a light on it, in whatever…

— Jeffrey Bowyer-Chapman

I think we have come to a place in black America, sadly from my point of view, where we have once again begun to…

— Shelby Steele

People have got to get together and work together. I'm tired of the kind of oppression that white people have inflicted on us and…

— Fannie Lou Hamer

In America, you can segregate the people, but the problems will travel. From slavery to equal rights, from state suppression of dissent to crime,…

— June Jordan

I am disappointed that after all of the struggles that we have had in this country for such a long time, trying to get…

— Bernie Sanders

That one lesson that African American communities have learned over the centuries in America is that you can't just take for granted that things…

— Ben H. Winters

Too often, systems of oppression turn those who are the targets of the oppression against one another. It's happened in the USA between white…

— Tim Tebow

I do not share the gloomy thought that Negroes in America are doomed to be stomped out bodaciously, nor even shackled to the bottom…

— Zora Neale Hurston

I'm looking forward to it, to be able to represent the black culture... but I'm doing my best at managing it, keeping it behind…

— Bubba Wallace

The history of black people in America, it's so painful. But throughout all that history there has still been the ability of our community…

— KiKi Layne

I feel like the world we live in seems to be full of an increasingly grey area, but the culture that we live in…

— Paul Bettany