African American Quotes - Page 26

• I fully understand that the African-American community has suffered from discrimination and that there are many wrongs that must still be made right.

  Donald Trump

  Community, Discrimination, Made

  "New Questions Over Claims In Burns' Bio; Clinton Losing Ground In Latest National Polls; Texas Tops Notre Dame In Double Overtime; Megan Rapinoe's Nod To Kaepernick". "New day", www.cnn.com. September 5, 2016.

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• I'm asking for the vote of every single African-American citizen. You're living in poverty. Your schools are no good. You have no jobs.

  Donald Trump

  Jobs, School, Citizens

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• We've had now eight years and there's this prideful sense among many African Americans. When you think about how elated they are when they see the First Lady on magazine covers or when she is out doing her thing. There just this pride our community has had for eight years now. When that goes away, I jokingly said it, but I do think there's going to be a bit of withdrawal.

  Ed Gordon

  Pride, Thinking, Eight

  Source: www.ebony.com

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• Something that is interesting about the current polling is that, as you watch Hillary's [Clinton] numbers fluctuate, part of the reason that they are is because the Obama coalition, younger voters, African-American voters, Latino voters, they're not showing up in as large a number for her as they did for President [Barack] Obama.

  Bill Burton

  Numbers, Interesting, President

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Blacks have no rights - in fact they were three - fifths human according to the constitution to give slave owners more voting rights. So that's African Americans.

  Noam Chomsky

  Rights, Slave Owners, Giving

  Interview with Jegan Vincent de Paul, chomsky.info. August 15, 2012.

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• There is a political and racial context behind everything that I do. Not always because I design it that way, or because I want it that way, but rather because it's just the way people look at the work of an African-American artist in this country.

  Kehinde Wiley

  Country, Artist, People

  "'I try to create a place of disorientation' - interview with Kehinde Wiley". Interview With Anna Savitskaya, artdependence.com. February 16, 2015.

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• My mother's from Texas. Small town outside of Waco called Downsville. And my father's from Nigeria. And so I guess I'm properly African-American.

  Kehinde Wiley

  Mother, Father, Texas

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• I was looking for excellence in any color or gender it comes in. Some of my top people are African American but not all of them.

  T. D. Jakes

  Color, People, Excellence

  "T.D. Jakes Talks: Second Chances, Humble Beginnings & Knowing Your Worth". Interview with Zon D’Amour, lasentinel.net. September 21, 2016.

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• I'm named Barack Hussein Obama. I'm African-­American.

  Barack Obama

  Hussein, Barack

  Source: www.vanityfair.com

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• I never thought my granny, somebody that was born down South, who witnessed America when it was segregated, would see, in her lifetime, an African-American in office as the President of the United States. It's major, it's a real historic day.

  Nipsey Hussle

  Real, America, Office

  Source: djbooth.net

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• We have to protect our inner cities, because African-American communities are being decimated by crime, decimated.

  Donald Trump

  Cities, Community, Crime

  Donald Trump during Presidential Debate at Hofstra University in Hempstead, New York, www.nytimes.com. September 27, 2016.

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• Too many young African-American and Latino men ended up in jail for nonviolent offenses.

  Hillary Clinton

  Men, Jail, Young

  "Transcript of the First Debate". www.nytimes.com. September 27, 2016.

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• The African-American community has been let down by our politicians. They talk good around election time, and after the election, they say, see ya later, I'll see you in four years.

  Donald Trump

  Years, Community, Four

  "Hillary Clinton will be President Obama on steroids". "Hannity", www.foxnews.com. September 27, 2016.

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• 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 by shootings of African-Americans by police, as we've seen recently in Charlotte and Tulsa.

  Lester Holt

  Country, Race, Police

  The First 2016 Presidential Debate Between Trump, Clinton, www.washingtonpost.com. September 26, 2016.

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• The gun epidemic is the leading cause of death of young African- American men, more than the next nine causes put together. So we have to do two things, as I said. We have to restore trust. We have to work with the police. We have to make sure they respect the communities and the communities respect them.

  Hillary Clinton

  Gun, Men, Epidemics

  "The first Trump-Clinton presidential debate transcript, annotated". www.washingtonpost.com. September 26, 2016.

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• We have a situation where we have our inner cities, African- Americans, Hispanics are living in he'll because it's so dangerous. You walk down the street, you get shot.

  Donald Trump

  Cities, Shots, Dangerous

  "Why does Donald Trump keep talking about Chicago?" by Zach Stafford, www.theguardian.com. September 30, 2016.

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• We need law and order in the inner cities, because the people that are most affected by what's happening are African-American and Hispanic people. And it's very unfair to them what our politicians are allowing to happen.

  Donald Trump

  Order, Law, Cities

  Donald Trump's speech at the first 2016 Trump-Clinton presidential debate at Hofstra University in Hempstead, New York, moderated by anchor of NBC Nightly News Lester Holt, www.nbcnews.com. September 26, 2016.

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• The African-American community, the community within the inner cities has been so badly treated.

  Donald Trump

  Cities, Community, Treated

  Source: time.com

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• They [African-American community] have been abused and used in order to get votes by Democrat politicians, because that's what it is. They've controlled these communities for up to 100 years.

  Donald Trump

  Order, Years, Community

  Source: time.com

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• I think that I've developed very, very good relationships over the last little while with the African-American community. I think you can see that.

  Donald Trump

  Thinking, Good Relationship, Community

  The first Trump-Clinton presidential debate transcript, annotated, www.washingtonpost.com. September 26, 2016.

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• Remember, Donald [Trump] started his career back in 1973 being sued by the Justice Department for racial discrimination because he would not rent apartments in one of his developments to African-Americans, and he made sure that the people who worked for him understood that was the policy. He actually was sued twice by the Justice Department.

  Hillary Clinton

  Careers, People, Justice

  Source: time.com

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• In Palm Beach, Florida, tough community, a brilliant community, a wealthy community, probably the wealthiest community there is in the world, I opened a club, and really got great credit for it. No discrimination against African- Americans, against Muslims, against anybody. And it's a tremendously successful club. And I'm so glad I did it.

  Donald Trump

  Beach, Successful, Florida

  Transcript of the First Debate, www.nytimes.com. September 27, 2016.

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• African Americans, in particular, saw their cumulative wealth crash. They used to have 10 cents on the dollar of the average white family. That 10 cents on the dollar that the African American family used to have crashed down to 5 cents on the dollar, given the focus of predatory lending on the African American community and the degree to which they were really devastated by the foreclosure crisis. So yeah, I think there is a lot of disappointment out there.

  Jill Stein

  Disappointment, Thinking, Average

  Source: www.justicenewsnetwork.com

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• I am honored to have Ajamu Baraka as a running mate. I think he brings enormous credibility in the disenfranchised communities, not just African American but Latino, Asian American and Native American. He is a recognized advocate for racial justice, economic justice and human rights, and I think this conversation is only just begun. It is very important.

  Jill Stein

  Running, Native American, Thinking

  Source: www.justicenewsnetwork.com

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• It is so painful to suggest that we go back to think about these days where an African-American could not be a citizen of the United States.

  Tim Kaine

  Thinking, United States, Citizens

  Source: www.politico.com

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