African american Quote by Rand Paul

I think what happened during the Great Depression was that African Americans understood that Republicans championed citizenship and voting rights but they became impatient…

— Rand Paul

How did the party that elected the first black U.S. senator, the party that elected the first 20 African American congressmen, become a party…

— Rand Paul

“The radical philosophy offered, for many African Americans, the most promise. It was predicated on a searing critique of large corporations, particularly railroads, and…

— Michelle Alexander

“Just as African Americans had learned that they did not have enough strength to make good the promises of emancipation, working people learned that…

— Howard Zinn

Up until, really, Roosevelt, African-Americans largely voted ninety per cent Republican. That was the political origins, that's what their political voice was in the…

— Michael Steele

“Frederick Douglass called Republicans the ‘Party of freedom and progress,’ and the first Republican president was Abraham Lincoln, the author of the Emancipation Proclamation.…

— Elbert Guillory

Emancipation came to the colored race in America as a war measure. It was an act of military necessity. Manifestly it would have come…

— Wendell Willkie

“…in recent history the Democrat Party has created the illusion that their agenda and their policies are what’s best for black people. Somehow it’s…

— Elbert Guillory

“Especially in the Deep South, where Democratic victory was impossible without the neutralization of part of the black electorate, it also implied a revival…

— Eric Foner

Everything African-Americans - every freedom they have obtained - came from Republicans, not Democrats. All the way back to the Emancipation Proclamation, to the…

— Rafael Cruz

During the Great Depression, African Americans were faced with problems that were not unlike those experienced by the most disadvantaged groups in society. The…

— William Julius Wilson

I know some African-Americans, they happen to be conservative, they're successful. They, of course, have raised their kids, and kids can't escape in school…

— Rush Limbaugh