African american Quote by Tavis Smiley

For most Black people there is still poverty and desperation. The Ghettos still exist, and the proportion of Blacks in prison is still much…

— Howard Zinn

Racism is not nearly as important as poverty. That's the same around the world. What look like ethnic problems are really economic issues. If…

— Marjane Satrapi

Racism is worse than ever. Violence is worse than ever. The economy's worse than ever. Unemployment's worse than ever. And it's Democrats that have…

— Rush Limbaugh

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

— David Cay Johnston

Martin Luther King was talking about racism, war and poverty. I think we have made progress enormous progress in racism and war, but we…

— Andrew Young

In the treatment of poverty nationally, one fact stands out: there are twice as many white poor as Negro poor in the United States.…

— Martin Luther

Racism is an issue in America but is primarily an issue for the poor. It's not LeBron James' issue.

— Jason Whitlock

Too often the media assumes that "poverty" is an African American or a Latino issue. Of course, that's nonsense. While a higher percentage of…

— Sasha Abramsky

“Partly, it is because we tend to think of black and white poverty differently. Sandra Barnes (2005, 17), citing census data from 2000, notes…

— Karl Alexander

The share of Americans who say race relations are bad in this country is the highest it's been in decades, much of it amplified…

— Lester Holt

This nation has always struggled with how it was going to deal with poor people and people of color. Every few years you will…

— Maxine Waters

First we have to recognize that the cause of poverty is both structural and behavioral. And the first thing about the behavior part is…

— Henry Louis Gates