Barack Quote by Julianne Malveaux

Far less wealthy industrialized countries have committed to end child poverty, while the United States is sliding backwards. We can do better. We must…

— Marian Wright Edelman

First we have to recognize that the cause of poverty is both structural and behavioral. And the first thing about the behavior part is…

— Henry Louis Gates

Even in the era of the first black president, racism is still the most intractable issue in USA. Regarding poverty, half of all Americans…

— Tavis Smiley

Rates of black poverty have decreased. Black teen-pregnancy rates are at record lows - and the gap between black and white teen-pregnancy rates has…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

Since the day Martin Luther King was killed, the black middle classes have almost quadrupled, but the percentage of black children living on or…

— Henry Louis Gates

“Poverty is what you see in the eyes of a Black child living in the squattercamp.”

— Matsime Simon Mohapi

That one lesson that African American communities have learned over the centuries in America is that you can't just take for granted that things…

— Ben H. Winters

“There is no Black person here who can afford to wait to be led into positive action for survival. Each one of us must…

— Audre Lorde

We had particular policies in this country that resulted in the larger share of poverty that we have in African-American communities.

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

African-Americans now 45 percent poverty in the inner cities. The education is a disaster. Jobs are essentially nonexistent.

— Donald Trump

“Obama was born into a country where laws barring his very conception—let alone his ascendancy to the presidency—had long stood in force. A black…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

We can't treat the matter of black economic empowerment as just the redistribution of existing wealth. It really has to focus on new investment,…

— Thabo Mbeki