Affirmative action Quote by Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson

“Poverty is what you see in the eyes of a Black child living in the squattercamp.”

— Matsime Simon Mohapi

“The key to the future for blacks is a commitment to America and its ideals of freedom, personal responsibility, the free enterprise system, and…

— Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson

Black people must address itself to the causes of poverty. That's oppression in this country.

— H. Rap Brown

“Current black leaders preach racial hatred and welfare dependency, not peace and independence. They earn their fat salaries by stirring up the racial pot…

— Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson

“Racist policies forcing free Blacks into menial jobs were being defended by racist claims that lazy and unskilled Black people were best for those…

— Ibram X. Kendi

But blacks make little to no progress and, worse, the preoccupation with injustice only leaves them eternally inconsolable and cut off from their own…

— Shelby Steele

“Freedom is not won by a passive acceptance of suffering. Freedom is won by a struggle against suffering. By this measure, Negroes have not…

— Martin Luther King Jr

“White folks have spent years giving Black folks their freedom on paper, but deep down they still expect us to say yes, massuh and…

— Jodi Picoult

“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

“The idea that the commodification and suffering and forced labor of African Americans is what made the United States powerful and rich is not…

— Edward E. Baptist

[A]ffirmative action in the United States has made blacks. . .who have largely lifted themselves out of poverty, look like people who owe their…

— Thomas Sowell

“Millions of Americans instinctively associate “poverty” with “black.”

— David Cay Johnston