Action Quote by Martin Luther King, Jr

Sometimes black people really want to hold onto our oppression - 'This is ours! This belongs to us.' You can't just talk about equality…

— Wanda Sykes

#BlackLivesMatter has raised the bar in our national dialog: Addressing economic inequality is necessary but not sufficient. It is also necessary to directly confront…

— Danny K. Davis

Racism has its boot squarely wedged on the neck of black communities, and we don't want to be told that hard work and responsibility…

— Patrisse Cullors

As black people we were out to further our equality. I don't pay attention to the controversial connotations put on by media and the…

— Chuck D

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

On the road to equality there is no better place for blacks to detour around American values than in forgoing its example in the…

— Eleanor Holmes Norton

When the world's moving towards being the most inclusive it's ever been, it's unthinkable that certain basic aspects of life are still so unfair…

— Troy Deeney

The conditions that we are suffering force us to address the real issues that affect the life and well-being of the majority of our…

— Louis Farrakhan

Blacks as a group will never be equal while they have this situation going on, where the vast majority of children do not have…

— Amy Wax

Most of the things that are asked of me as a representative black person, would suggest never are we equal Americans.

— Alex Haley

Black America surely faces an existential crisis, but not the one imagined in the condescending news media - of somehow getting non-black America to…

— James Howard Kunstler

I will probably have a tendency to lean toward trying to resolve the issues that negatively impact black people, but the overall picture and…

— David Banner