Actuality Quote by Darryl Pinckney

Too often when we talk about racial or economic justice, we white people do not see ourselves in the picture. We feel like it's…

— Betsy Hodges

“Today, many whites oppose all social reform as "welfare programs for blacks." They ignore the fact that poor whites have employment, education, and social…

— Derrick Bell

Reparative justice is not about black people standing on the street corners expecting charities from white folks. This is about building of bridges across…

— Hilary Beckles

“Partly, it is because we tend to think of black and white poverty differently. Sandra Barnes (2005, 17), citing census data from 2000, notes…

— Karl Alexander

The poor are the blacks of Europe.

— Nicolas Chamfort

“Millions of Americans instinctively associate “poverty” with “black.”

— David Cay Johnston

The white poor also suffer deprivation and the humiliation of poverty if not of color. They are chained by the weight of discrimination though…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

For most Black people there is still poverty and desperation. The Ghettos still exist, and the proportion of Blacks in prison is still much…

— Howard Zinn

Poverty is rooted in injustice.

— Winnie Byanyima

Black people must address itself to the causes of poverty. That's oppression in this country.

— H. Rap Brown

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

— Steven D. Levitt

We do not need to minimize the poverty of the ghetto or the suffering inflicted by whites on blacks in order to see that…

— Christopher Lasch