American values Quote by Eleanor Holmes Norton

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

Blacks as a group will never be equal while they have this situation going on, where the vast majority of children do not have…

— Amy Wax

But blacks make little to no progress and, worse, the preoccupation with injustice only leaves them eternally inconsolable and cut off from their own…

— Shelby Steele

As black people we were out to further our equality. I don't pay attention to the controversial connotations put on by media and the…

— Chuck D

When the world's moving towards being the most inclusive it's ever been, it's unthinkable that certain basic aspects of life are still so unfair…

— Troy Deeney

I think it's really important that we understand the ways in which blackness plays out, right, and discrimination against black people impacts different communities…

— Opal Tometi

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

WE [black women] HAVE ADAPTED TO A SOCIETY THAT DOES'NT HONOR US.

— Iyanla Vanzant

As a result of America's efforts to realize the ideals of equality and freedom, blacks in America are now the freest and richest black…

— David Horowitz

There is a tendency to want to treat blacks as a monolithic socioeconomic group.

— William Julius Wilson

The burden of being black is that you have to be superior just to be equal. But the glory of it is that, once…

— Jesse Jackson

The liberation of Blacks is not for Blacks only.

— Jesse Jackson