Color Quote by Jonathan Kozol

We only have to recall the color of the faces of those who were most devastated by Katrina, to know that there are not…

— Jimmy Carter

The people who couldn't get out of New Orleans to escape the storm were predominantly Black.

— Anonymous

Class certainly loomed large in Katrina's aftermath. Blacks of means escaped the tragedy; blacks without them suffered and died. In reality, it is how…

— Michael Eric Dyson

To be sure, the story of Hurricane Katrina does have a moral for anyone not deliberately blind. The races are different. Blacks and whites…

— Jared Taylor

The hopeless grief of those poor colored people affected me more than almost anything else.

— Gideon Welles

What happened after Katrina is that people were stirred to action; there were an enormous number of contributions by people trying to make a…

— Elizabeth Edwards

You have seen after Katrina just what failures there are in American Society.

— Desmond Tutu

In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, we did create Color of Change, an organization which focused on African-Americans in particular, because we felt that…

— Van Jones

If you have an economic system in which there must be a lower class, there must be unemployed. There must be a large pool…

— Howard Zinn

Eighty-five percent of us in this country, by the way, live in coastal areas, so again, Katrina and Rita were not just about New…

— Mitch Landrieu

While no community is immune to the impacts of COVID-19, I'm troubled by the disparate impact to communities of color.

— Mikie Sherrill

Human life is important and it feels like there is not a concern in communities of color. Very frustrated, but we will never give…

— Martin Luther King III