America Quote by Martin Luther King, Jr

It is obvious today that America has defaulted on this promissory note insofar as her citizens of color are concerned. Instead of honoring this…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

In a sense we've come to our nation's capital to cash a check. When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Somebody has been cashing checks, and they've been bouncing back on us. And these people, the poor class of Negroes and the poor class…

— Howlin' Wolf

Martin Luther King said America had given a bad check to black people.

— Andrew Young

Black people in America, people from the struggle, immigrants, it's no generational wealth that we are attached to, so we are tasked to create…

— Nipsey Hussle

The Negro pays for what he wants and begs for what he needs.

— Kelly Miller

The black money issue should not be misunderstood as one of merely avoiding taxes. It is, in fact, a major systemic crime of denying…

— Subramanian Swamy

When you have a policy of making sure that African Americans cannot build wealth, of plundering African American communities of wealth, giving opportunities to…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

Checks aren't money.

— Andy Warhol

Negro banks, as a rule, have failed because the people, taught that their own pioneers in business cannot function in this sphere, withdrew their…

— Carter G. Woodson

Just because you have checks in the checkbook doesn't mean that you have money in the bank, and Washington has failed to understand that.

— Mike Bouchard

Billions of dollars have been lost to the Negro race within the last fifty years through disloyalty on the part of successful Negroes, who…

— Marcus Garvey