African american Quote by Ta-Nehisi Coates

The relationship between police and African-Americans has probably always been strained.

— Harrison Barnes

Too many of our fellow Americans have to struggle each day against the obstacles imposed by racism, history and original sin. These obstacles are…

— Conor Lamb

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

As a black man who doesn't know another black man who hasn't had strange run-ins with police officers, it's impossible for us not to…

— Trip Lee

We were raised in the black community not to trust the police, and I believe, in the white community, they were raised to actually…

— Courtney B. Vance

“Racism is not merely a simplistic hatred. It is, more often, broad sympathy toward some and broader skepticism toward others. Black America ever lives…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

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

— Tim Wise

Ninety-plus percent of police/community relations is simply wonderful - where people obey the law, don't resist arrest, don't attack cops and don't threaten lives,…

— Ted Nugent

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

It goes back in the black community that the police are not your friends. That's an old, old, deep understanding that we have, that…

— Courtney B. Vance

I talked to a lot of Black Lives activists in various states. What I learned is that the relationship of police departments around the…

— Bernie Sanders

The interesting thing about the African-American experience in this country is that we are sort of a mongrel of people. I mean we're all…

— Barack Obama