Bears Quote by Jimmy Carter

But for poor black people and working-class black people, it is a much more difficult way to go. The over-incarceration of black people is…

— Michael Eric Dyson

Economic justice is not just something blacks are crying out for; whites are desperate for it, too. But in the public imagination, the face…

— Darryl Pinckney

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

— H. Rap Brown

There are those who believe justice and dignity are reserved only for some people. Young men have died in police custody, and the growing…

— Elizabeth Warren

When someone is in 'the struggle,' which many of our black communities are in, they are living with a lack of educational facilities, high…

— Kenny Smith

They who refuse education to a black man would turn the South into a vast poorhouse, and labor into a pendulum, necessity vibrating between…

— Henry Ward Beecher

Poverty, the racial divide and social injustice do not impact only those who suffer most visibly. Alleviating poverty and injustice is a responsibility we…

— Marc Morial

There are positively no mental, physical or moral attainments too lofty for the Negro to accomplish if granted a fair and equal opportunity.

— Major Taylor

When you're poor and black in America, you stand a greater chance of going to prison for something you didn't do.

— Anthony Ray Hinton

The poor are too busy working to need justice.

— Ted Danson

In the area of economic justice, we still have a long way to go. We have too many people who are discriminated against just…

— Coretta Scott King

You discover that the education the Negro gets is designed to keep him subservient. The poor black man is exploited by whites and by…

— Medgar Evers