African american Quote by Johnnetta B. Cole

The essence of Africa's crisis is fundamentally its extreme poverty.

— Jeffrey Sachs

The essence of Africa's crises is fundamentally it's extreme poverty.

— Jeffrey Sachs

The essence of Africa's crisis is fundamentally its extreme poverty and therefore its inability to mobilize out of its own resources even the barest…

— Jeffrey Sachs

The crisis in black America is threefold...economic...political...and spiritual.

— Cornel West

“In a sane world, a term like "chronic crisis" would be instantly seen by anone as an oxymoron. Nevertheless, that's the state that many…

— Anthony D. Ravenscroft

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

During the Great Depression, African Americans were faced with problems that were not unlike those experienced by the most disadvantaged groups in society. The…

— William Julius Wilson

We do not need to minimize the poverty of the ghetto or the suffering inflicted by whites on blacks in order to see that…

— Christopher Lasch

Americans' perceptions of Africa remain rooted in troubling stereotypes of helplessness and perpetual crisis.

— John Prendergast

Successful people recognize crisis as a time for change - from lesser to greater, smaller to bigger.

— Edwin Louis Cole

African-Americans and black immigrants share a resilience and a determination for a better life.

— Opal Tometi

“Slavery wasn’t a crisis for British and American elites until abolitionism turned it into one. Racial discrimination wasn’t a crisis until the civil rights…

— Naomi Klein