America Quote by Martin Luther King, Jr

America has given the Negro people a bad check, a check which has come back marked 'insufficient funds.'

— 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

I don't think that I or any other Negro, as an American citizen, should have to ask for anything that is rightfully his. We…

— Jackie Robinson

Minorities have been hustling backwards from check to check.

— Fat Joe

Black people are pledging their fealty to the state, and yet they aren't getting the same return. This is theft. It's systemized.

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

There is no negro problem. The problem is whether the American people have loyalty enough, honor enough, patriotism enough, to live up to their…

— Frederick Douglass

The problem of the negro is so criminal that many individuals and organizations are going to have to sacrifice what they call their organizational…

— Malcolm X