African Quote by William Julius Wilson

I think what happened during the Great Depression was that African Americans understood that Republicans championed citizenship and voting rights but they became impatient…

— Rand Paul

“The challenge is more difficult because low-income African Americans today confront not only segregation but also the income stagnation and blocked mobility faced by…

— Richard Rothstein

The depression brought everybody down a peg or two. And the Negroes had but few pegs to fall.

— Langston Hughes

For complicated historical and political reasons, we associate 'poor' in our public consciousness with 'black.' Terms such as 'welfare queen' and 'culture of poverty'…

— J. D. Vance

When blacks are unemployed, they are considered lazy and apathetic. When whites are unemployed, it's considered a depression.

— Jesse Jackson

The depression brought everybody down a peg or two. And the Negro had but few pegs to fall.

— Langston Hughes

The Great Depression, they come out with the New Deal, black people didn't have access to those government stimulus packages. The New Deal set…

— Eric Reid

I will probably have a tendency to lean toward trying to resolve the issues that negatively impact black people, but the overall picture and…

— David Banner

We were segregated throughout the community, and it was pretty brutal, actually. It didn't appear to be, on the surface.People got along and we…

— Jeff Sessions

Class certainly loomed large in Katrina's aftermath. Blacks of means escaped the tragedy; blacks without them suffered and died. In reality, it is how…

— Michael Eric Dyson

My theory is that nine times out of ten, if there's a depression, more a social depression than anything, it brings out the best…

— Questlove

Growing up on our estate, we were all different colours, but we were all really poor. I never really realised that black was a…

— Michaela Coel