Black Quote by Marian Wright Edelman

The president who did the most for black Americans in 20th century history was Lyndon Johnson, and he got his hands dirty by dealing…

— Steve Inskeep

Only time [JF] Kennedy made any, took any action to even look like he identified with negroes was when he was forced to. Kennedy…

— Malcolm X

The only politician anybody ever believed was Kennedy, anyway. Kennedy, Martin Luther King - civil rights always turns out in bloody war. Where's his…

— Shane MacGowan

President Obama is a man who had certain advantages because of the civil rights movement. He had the opportunity to go to some of…

— Danny Glover

“The civil rights generation is exiting the American stage—not in a haze of nostalgia but in a cloud of gloom, troubled by the persistence…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

The idea that America elected a black man to be its president forty years after it declined to allow Martin Luther King Jr. to…

— Charlie Pierce

It was to carry the American democratic journey beyond these failings that Black citizens and civil rights workers risked unemployment, violence and death.

— Elijah Cummings

Martin Luther King Jr's agenda was not to help Negroes overcome American apartheid in the south. It was to make America democracy a better…

— Cornel West

Obama was elected in a flourish of promise that many in the African-American community believed would help not only to symbolize African-American progress since…

— Douglas Wilder

Black people have been qualified to be president for hundreds of years. George Washington Carver could have been president. I could go on with…

— Chris Rock

“It is, indeed, one of the basic moral blindspots of American conservatism that its intellectual and leadership energy have never been focused in a…

— Martin Kilson

Civil rights was not an impossible dream. Thousands of brave African Americans stepped forward to make it happen.

— Martin O'Malley