African american Quote by John Lewis

While nothing is perfect or complete in the battle for civil rights, the efforts of Dr. King and those like him have in fact,…

— Skai Jackson

Don King doesn't care about black or white. He just cares about green.

— Larry Holmes

Beyond [Barack Obama] having made history as the first African-American president, I hope that he gets re-elected for what he does while in office,…

— Lenny Kravitz

“For years, I declined to fill in the form for my Senate press credential that asked me to state my 'race,' unless I was…

— Christopher Hitchens

Martin Luther King would celebrate the symbolic status (of having a black president), but he would examine what the real substance was. And if…

— Cornel West

What I find astounding is that we've had a president who is black in office for the past eight years, who gets most of…

— Stacey Dash

I wished the president [Barack Obama] were more "Martin Luther King-like."

— Cornel West

I would have to thank my godmother, Dr. Alveda King for exposing the racism behind abortion and fighting hard to not only defund Planned…

— Angela Stanton-King

The first black president will be a politician who is black.

— Douglas Wilder

I am concerned that there are some feelings in some quarters in some corners that, what do people of color want now? We elected…

— John Lewis

That's where Dr. [Martin Luther] King is mixed up. His goals should be the solution of the problem of the black man in America.

— Malcolm X

Justice Jefferson has a blind spot on race. You know, more than a blind spot. A terrible blemish on his legacy, slavery, for which…

— Jeffrey Rosen