Back Quote by Howlin' Wolf

America has given the Negro people a bad check, a check which has come back marked 'insufficient funds.'

— Martin Luther King, Jr

In a sense we've come to our nation's capital to cash a check. When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

It is obvious today that America has defaulted on this promissory note insofar as her citizens of color are concerned. Instead of honoring this…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Black people in America, people from the struggle, immigrants, it's no generational wealth that we are attached to, so we are tasked to create…

— Nipsey Hussle

Black people are pledging their fealty to the state, and yet they aren't getting the same return. This is theft. It's systemized.

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

“You know how many more rich Negroes there'd be if we wasn't all the time trying to pay off some lawyer or bailing a…

— Jacqueline Woodson

Minorities have been hustling backwards from check to check.

— Fat Joe

Billions of dollars have been lost to the Negro race within the last fifty years through disloyalty on the part of successful Negroes, who…

— Marcus Garvey

When people reflexively write checks to institutions that have billions of dollars in the bank, they are essentially committing a moral crime. Your money…

— Malcolm Gladwell

Now, just a word about the poor Negroes... They're here. They've got to be cared for... The poor Negroes have got to live, too.

— Huey Long

“How skillful to tax the middle class to pay for the relief of the poor, building resentment on top of humiliation! How adroit to…

— Howard Zinn

I think if we go back and check our record, the Negro has proven beyond a doubt that we have been more than patient…

— Jackie Robinson