America Quote by Randall Robinson

Black people in America have to, for their own protection, develop a defense mechanism, and I just grew terribly tired of it. When you…

— Randall Robinson

It is hard for a black man to just be himself. We spend so much time in defense of something that is indefensible because…

— Kevin Eubanks

African-Americans have always viewed the protection of black lives as a civil rights issue, whether the threat comes from police officers or street criminals.…

— James Forman, Jr

Not all of us are as effective as we could be, should be, or need to be, but some of the [most important] issues…

— Michael C Dawson

There is a reason that many African Americans have a healthy mistrust for law enforcement. We don't always feel protected or served by that…

— Sterling K. Brown

There is no one way to be Black in America, but there is one way we live while Black in America. No matter our…

— Jonathan Capehart

I think we have come to a place in black America, sadly from my point of view, where we have once again begun to…

— Shelby Steele

The lived experience of Black people in the United States has demonstrated countless times that we are neither seen as 'law-abiding citizens' nor worthy…

— Jonathan Capehart

There's an old saying in the black community that everybody else is protected and served but we are policed, we don't want to be…

— Benjamin Crump

African-Americans want to be safe in their community, like any other nationality that lives in America. They don't want to be robbed. They don't…

— Ras Baraka

People are just afraid of things too much … Sure, evil exists, extremism exists. Somebody could commit a hate crime and hurt me. But…

— Frank Ocean

Black people have always been used as a buffer in this country between powers to prevent class war.

— Toni Morrison