America Quote by Maxine Waters Download Open image “Policy, for the most part, has been made by white people in America, not by people of color.” — Maxine Waters ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare America Color People Policy White White people
Policy, for the most part, has been made by white people in America, not by people of color. And they have tended to take… — Maxine Waters Copy Share Image
To operate with the aspiration of color-blindness in a country whose central operating mechanism for centuries has been race belies the logic of race-neutral… — Clint Smith Copy Share Image
“until the last quarter of the twentieth century, racially explicit policies of federal, state, and local governments defined where whites and African Americans should… — Richard Rothstein Copy Share Image
We do policy but we can only do policy an effective manner when we keep in front of us the human faces behind the… — Raphael Warnock Copy Share Image
Take crack cocaine. Particularly in the early days of the policy, ninety percent of the people being arrested were black, even though they didn't… — Carl Hart Copy Share Image
There is a system of racial and social control in communities of color across America. — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
Countries make policies for themselves. And Donald Trump wants to make - that's his policy. — John Yarmuth Copy Share Image
Policy is about real people and real stories, and sometimes we forget that. — Pramila Jayapal Copy Share Image
It's really important that policy be properly designed. It's not enough just to.. .get angry over a subject. — Jamie Dimon Copy Share Image
I was very impressed with that that women have come here to say that we're going to fight you, Donald Trump. — Maxine Waters Copy Share
President Trump basically has interfered with an investigation where he may be implicated. That's outrageous. And that's why we're having so much of a… — Maxine Waters Copy Share Image
As you know in this committee, we have all of HUD, and HUD is responsible for so many programs that determine the quality of… — Maxine Waters Copy Share Image
I have been working hard trying to implement Dodd-Frank reforms. We went through a terrible crisis in 2008. Many people lost their homes. — Maxine Waters Copy Share
It's very important that people who are feeling the need to do something... get activated. — Maxine Waters Copy Share Image
The women's movement was just coming into being, and I got involved with Gloria Steinem and Bella Abzug and all these great women. We… — Maxine Waters Copy Share Image
It's time for the bully pulpit of the White House to bring the gangstas in, put them around the table and let them know… — Maxine Waters Copy Share Image
Policy, for the most part, has been made by white people in America, not by people of color. And they have tended to take… — Maxine Waters Copy Share Image
[Rex Tillerson] is gonna continue to work on [sanctions lifting]. This is important for him. He was there [in White House] because he negotiated… — Maxine Waters Copy Share Image
I could not remove myself from this debate about Trump. I could not abide his indecency. I could not live with the way he… — Maxine Waters Copy Share Image
The costs of the Bush-Obama wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are now estimated to run as high as $4.4 trillion - a major victory for Osama bin Laden, whose announced goal was to bankrupt America by drawing it into a trap. The 2011 military budget - almost matching that of the rest of the world combined - is higher in… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
Well, The Day the Earth Caught Fire was a story... I don't if anybody knows what it is but it was about... in the… — Val Guest Copy Share Image
So here's what I want you to know, and here's what I want all our men and women in uniform to know: Because of… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Today, the world looks to America for leadership. And America looks to its Corps of Marines. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
The image of blacks usually is one of people who are suffering from hunger, unemployment, and poverty. The idea of them as agents and activists - as starting revolutions - does not exist in most people's minds. And I think it's very, very important that folks understand how much this country was founded on the enslavement of blacks, and how… — Grace Lee Boggs Copy Share
I'll smoke, I'll cough, I'll get the tumors, I'll die, deal? Thank you America. [salutes] — Bill Hicks Copy Share Image
America is a democracy and has no Hitler, but I am afraid for her future; there are hard times ahead for the American people,… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
In the nineteenth century some parts of the world were unexplored, but there was almost no restriction on travel.:; Up to 1914 you did not need a passport for any country except Russia.:; The European emigrant, if he could scrape together a few pounds for the passage, simply set sail for America or Australia, and when he got there no… — George Orwell Copy Share
We need a system that serves our needs, not the needs of others. Remember, under a Trump administration it's called America first. Remember that. — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
America, you're sending girls a mixed message. On one hand, you're saying to have positive body image and love who we are; on the… — Adora Svitak Copy Share Image