Black Quote by Jesse Lee Peterson

“Perhaps after a serious discussion and debate - the kind that HR 40 proposes - we may find that the country can never fully…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

I'm against reparations. At this point, blacks should just be handing money to themselves.

— Ann Coulter

Forget reparations - we need to rescue aspects of black culture abandoned even by black folks, whether it is the blues or home cookin'…

— Kevin Young

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

Being black, I'm involved in the reparations movement. It's focused toward the African-American audience. We could begin to heal.

— Cassandra Wilson

Does that mean that all vestiges of past discrimination would be eliminated, that the income gap or the wealth gap or the education gap…

— Barack Obama

The conditions that we are suffering force us to address the real issues that affect the life and well-being of the majority of our…

— Louis Farrakhan

We have to look at for example the increasing globalization of capital, the whole system of transitional capitalism now which has had an impact…

— Angela Davis

I will probably have a tendency to lean toward trying to resolve the issues that negatively impact black people, but the overall picture and…

— David Banner

If we get setbacks and if something happens where the Civil Rights Bill is watered down, for instance, if the Negro feels that he…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

We could get more action in the South because the Negroes had a feeling that they were being oppressed. But you take New York,…

— Thurgood Marshall

Theoretically, you can make, obviously, a powerful argument that centuries of slavery, Jim Crow, discrimination are the primary cause for all those gaps. That…

— Barack Obama