Bar Quote by Danny K. Davis

“We also need to understand that white supremacy is at the heart of the problem—not just a racially associated economic inequality.”

— Becky Bond

It is our experience that the nation doesn't move around questions of genuine equality for the poor and for black people until it is…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Sometimes black people really want to hold onto our oppression - 'This is ours! This belongs to us.' You can't just talk about equality…

— Wanda Sykes

As members of the judiciary tasked with intervening to carry out the guarantee of equal protection, we ought not sit back and wish away,…

— Sonia Sotomayor

The Black Lives Matter movement has brought to the national conversation many of the inequalities I've worked to confront here in Braddock. I'm so…

— John Fetterman

We need to intentionally invest in health, in home ownership, in entrepreneurship, in access to democracy, in economic empowerment. If we don't do these…

— Pete Buttigieg

I think #BlackLivesMatter is a huge campaign that is important and integral to our advancement as a people.

— Chance The Rapper

I don't believe we need to choose between addressing economic issues and addressing issues of social or racial justice.

— Julian Castro

We've done a very poor job at really reflecting on our legacy of racial inequality... You see it in the South, but it's everywhere.

— Bryan Stevenson

For black America needs a politics whose first mission isn't the reinforcement of the idea of black America; and a discourse of race that…

— Anonymous

#BlackLivesMatter brought a new sense of urgency, audacity, and outrage to the issue of police violence against black men that has made it impossible…

— Danny K. Davis

“Is distinctive black culture the cause of economic disparity between whites and blacks or merely the reflection of it?”

— Steven D. Levitt