Black Quote by Jim Brown

I had advocated the establishment of a Negro industrial commission. I had gestured against the growth of monopoly power. I had introduced a few…

— Emanuel Celler

I have done more for black people than any other person in the nation, North or South,

— Strom Thurmond

Even during my youth, I can recall very few black people living on any kind of public assistance. People were working, doing some kind…

— Ed Smith

Earlier in my college career, there was no doubt in my mind that as a member of the Black community I was somehow obligated…

— Michelle Obama

I was a black boy at the height of the crack era, which meant that my instructors pitched education as the border between those…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

My father was at the forefront of the economic justice movement - fighting for and with Black women who were on welfare for dignity…

— Maya Wiley

Having grown up in a Black neighborhood, gone to a segregated Black public school that was overcrowded and underfunded, watched my neighbors be displaced…

— Maya Wiley

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

— Cassandra Wilson

I grew up poor, black, and working class.

— Roger Ross Williams

At G-20 summit, I worked with US and other countries to bring black money back.

— Narendra Modi

One of the prices that we pay for integration was the disintegration of the black community.

— Ed Smith

I was in an organization called Progressive Labor Party and International Committee Against Racism. And I was - I started out helping to organize…

— Boots Riley