African american Quote by Henry Louis Gates

Rates of black poverty have decreased. Black teen-pregnancy rates are at record lows - and the gap between black and white teen-pregnancy rates has…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

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

— H. Rap Brown

There are no causes of poverty. It is the rest state, that which happens when you don't do anything. If you want to experience…

— Madsen Pirie

I believe that poverty is often the result of inappropriate behavior - out-of-wedlock births, dropping out of school, crime and drugs - which should…

— Joe Klein

To help people emerge from the poverty, you have to understand, what are the structural causes of it. And the structural causes are partially…

— Marco Rubio

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

— David Cay Johnston

Like slavery and apartheid, poverty is not natural. It is man-made and it can be overcome and eradicated by the actions of human beings.…

— Nelson Mandela

In the treatment of poverty nationally, one fact stands out: there are twice as many white poor as Negro poor in the United States.…

— Martin Luther

We had particular policies in this country that resulted in the larger share of poverty that we have in African-American communities.

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

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

“LAZY AND IRRESPONSIBLE This isn't a politically correct position to have, but I'm convinced that the lack of moral character in many black men…

— Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson

Poverty is a horrible, bedeviling force that invades and infects every aspect of our lives and communities - our homes, our pantries, our schools,…

— Wes Moore