Armed forces Quote by Clive Lewis

The enemy has always been able to point the finger of suspicion and/or guilt to Black leaders that they are enriching themselves at the…

— Louis Farrakhan

When the charge first came up, I hated black women. Then, going to trial, I started seeing the black women that was helping me.…

— Tupac Shakur

As a black man who doesn't know another black man who hasn't had strange run-ins with police officers, it's impossible for us not to…

— Trip Lee

This feeling African-Americans have, this skepticism towards the police and the skepticism that the police show towards African-Americans is actually quite old. And it…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

I believe that when it comes to major foreign policy issues, many prefer to have black people seen and not heard.

— Cynthia McKinney

I'm about looking at each of those perceived menacing black men that you see in the streets all over the place, people that you…

— Kehinde Wiley

When I started, black people were either victims or they were the perpetrators; they were the boogie men who jumped out of the bushes…

— Joe Morton

I have witnessed and heard countless reports of young black men routinely targeted and recruited by various subversive groups. One of the leading recruiters…

— Jesse Lee Peterson

I was ignorant before I did my research of a lot of African American police officers out there who are doing their job and…

— John David Washington

We were raised in the black community not to trust the police, and I believe, in the white community, they were raised to actually…

— Courtney B. Vance

Pervasive 'whites-only' policies and hateful narratives could not be further from the values that underpin our Armed Forces: those of integrity, respect for others,…

— Amber Rudd

One of the burdens of being a black male is carrying the heavy weight of other people’s suspicions.

— Jonathan Capehart