Drug Quote by Michelle Alexander

The drug war has been waged almost exclusively in ghetto communities, resulting in what I believe is a racial under cast.

— Michelle Alexander

We are about to have a racial explosion.

— Malcolm X

What was happening was the war on drugs. That was the primary culprit I could see that was getting in the way of black…

— Eugene Jarecki

Historically - when you look at how America has evolved, typically we make progress on race relations in fits and starts. We make some…

— Barack Obama

We've simply been putting Band-Aids on the wounds of racism. We haven't drilled down to the bone to get to its source.

— Daryl Davis

We have to break the cycle of structural racism, and build a truly just society for all of us.

— Jamaal Bowman

I really think we were charting a course to having a more sane response to mass incarceration, to drug use, and to understanding that…

— Ayelet Waldman

A people who have suffered so much for so long at hands of a racist society must draw the line somewhere… the black communities…

— Bobby Seale

We have not been energetic enough - white people haven't - in pursuing racial equity.

— George Saunders

As more people of color raise our consciousness and refuse to be pitted against one another, the forces of neo-colonial white supremacist domination must…

— Bell Hooks

While progress has been made, there is still more work to do to root out systemic racism and inequity.

— Ben Ray Lujan

Race remains a significant challenge in America.

— Hillary Clinton