African american Quote by Richard Rothstein

“Had I known the risks associated with oxygen administration, I would have refused to work atop the biologically hazardous Mauna Kea summit.”

— Steven Magee

The Obama administration deserves credit for quickly ending the housing free fall. In particular, Obama empowered the Federal Housing Administration to ensure that households…

— Mark Zandi

If, in [Federal Housing Administration] application, black folks were excluded from it, then you have to override that by going after those discriminatory practices.

— Barack Obama

“The core argument of this book is that African Americans were unconstitutionally denied the means and the right to integration in middle-class neighborhoods, and…

— Richard Rothstein

“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

“We have created a caste system in this country, with African Americans kept exploited and geographically separate by racially explicit government policies. Although most…

— Richard Rothstein

“If federal programs were not, even to this day, reinforcing racial isolation by disproportionately directing low-income African Americans who receive housing assistance into the…

— Richard Rothstein

“In 1866, Congress enforced the abolition of slavery by passing a Civil Rights Act, prohibiting actions that it deemed perpetuated the characteristics of slavery.…

— Richard Rothstein

To those African-Americans suffering in our country, I say, what do you have to lose? Vote for Trump, I'm going to fix it.

— Donald Trump

“He (Zerubavel) draws attention to the social influences on perception (what people notice), attention and concern (what people care about), classification (how people categorize…

— Wendy Griswold

For people of color - especially African Americans - the idea that racist cops might frame members of their community is no abstract notion,…

— Tim Wise

“Alabama in 1927 alone, 27,701 men were arrested on misdemeanor charges and offered for sale by county sheriffs. In Blackmon’s estimation, “roughly half of…

— Ian Haney López