Black Quote by Thabo Mbeki

I think the critical point, really, is that we need to focus black economic empowerment more on the creation of new wealth rather than…

— Thabo Mbeki

What is black empowerment when it seems to benefit not the vast majority but an elite that tends to be recycled?

— Desmond Tutu

Black people have been marginalized and kept away from the economics of this country. I think people are starting to understand that and are…

— The D.O.C

Black people need to share collective dollars and demand equal representation, and the way you do that is by controlling their own economy and…

— Killer Mike

We need to intentionally invest in health, in home ownership, in entrepreneurship, in access to democracy, in economic empowerment. If we don't do these…

— Pete Buttigieg

The issue of redistribution of resources and wealth needs to resolved systemically, but in the meantime but there are individual spots you can occupy.…

— Michael Eric Dyson

It is our experience that the nation doesn't move around questions of genuine equality for the poor and for black people until it is…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

For black America needs a politics whose first mission isn't the reinforcement of the idea of black America; and a discourse of race that…

— Anonymous

We can make black lives matter in the labor movement by building the kinds of movements that black women need to shape a new…

— Alicia Garza

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

— H. Rap Brown

The empowerment of black women constitutes the empowerment of our entire community.

— Anonymous

In America, the poor have been invisibilised, because obviously this model of success that has been held out to the world must not show…

— Arundhati Roy