Percent Black Quote by Richard White

“Today, many whites oppose all social reform as "welfare programs for blacks." They ignore the fact that poor whites have employment, education, and social…

— Derrick Bell

Dr. King organized the Poor People's Campaign in 1968 to shut down Washington, D.C. and force legislators to tackle poverty. His efforts to shift…

— John Hope Bryant

The welfare state has done to Black Americans what slavery (and Jim Crow and racism) could not have done. . .break up the black…

— John Stossel

When I look at 55 percent of our black men dropping out of school, how bad off are we going to be when we…

— Bill Cosby

The media love to cover black people on the front page. After all, when you live in a society that will lock up about…

— Michael Moore

Illinois has less than a 12 percent black population and I won with 55 percent of the vote.

— Carol Moseley Braun

Our families have fallen to pieces. 75 percent of all black children are born out of wedlock, without a father.

— Shelby Steele

My school is about 25 percent black, but the way we're covered doesn't reflect that.

— David Hogg

In some states, not even 50 percent of black boys finish high school.

— Tavis Smiley

If the churches don't move, much of the community won't move. We've got a situation in which a black church is still a major…

— Cornel West

In 2013, 71 percent of black children in America were born to an unwed mother, as were 53 percent of Hispanic children and 36…

— Nicholas Kristof

Given the inefficiencies of what D.C. laughingly calls the 'criminal justice system,' I think we can safely assume that 95 percent of the black…

— Ron Paul

I do believe 100 percent that Black lives matter and that the cause to achieve and pursue equality supersedes basketball.

— Doris Burke

“If our neighbors were white, they’d be victims of the same crime that plagues black folk. You are right, however, about those proportions. Ninety-three…

— Michael Eric Dyson