African American Quotes - Page 28

• I'll tell you what, our inner cities are so, so bad right now. The danger, the crime, the lack of education, no jobs. African Americans are living in hell in our - in the inner cities. I mean, they're living - they're living in hell. You walk to the store for a loaf of bread; you get shot.

  Donald Trump

  Jobs, Mean, Cities

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• For years, the Democrats have controlled the inner cities; some up to 100 years; some over 100 years; unbroken. I say to the African American community and to the Hispanic community: What the hell do you have to lose? I will fix it. We will make them good. We'll make them safe. We'll bring back jobs. We'll create good, good schools and education.

  Donald Trump

  Jobs, School, Years

  "Donald Trump’s campaign has become one big airing of grievances". www.washingtonpost.com. October 27, 2016.

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• We're going to bring jobs back to this country. I think that is one of the reasons I'm going to do well with the African-Americans and Hispanics.

  Donald Trump

  Country, Jobs, Thinking

  Source: townhall.com

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• African-American voters are not nearly as enthusiastic about [Hillary] Clinton as they were about [Barack] Obama.

  Mara Liasson

  Voters, Clinton, Enthusiastic

  Source: www.npr.org

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• In 2012, African-Americans were 13 percent of the electorate, and 93 percent of them voted for [Barack] Obama.

  Mara Liasson

  Barack, Electorate, Percent

  Source: www.npr.org

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• The [Hillary] Clinton campaign's recent travel schedule shows how seriously it takes this problem. She and her surrogates have held rallies in cities like Philadelphia, Detroit and Cleveland, trying to boost turnout among African-Americans.

  Mara Liasson

  Cities, Philadelphia, Trying

  Source: www.npr.org

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• If [Hillary] Clinton can't boost African-American turnout, even with all that help, the question becomes whether she can make up for it with historic levels of support from Hispanics and suburban women.

  Mara Liasson

  Support, Levels, Helping

  Source: www.npr.org

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• The first thing I did [in Michigan] was join a picket line of a pizzeria in Ann Harbor in 1963 that didn't allow African Americans to eat there.

  Bill Ayers

  Michigan, Lines, Firsts

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• There's the National Organization for Women feminist faction, there's the NAACP liberal African-American faction, there's the La Raza Hispanic faction. They're pitted against each other and it runs so contrary to the E pluribus unum American middle class experience.

  Andrew Breitbart

  Running, Class, Organization

  Source: www.newsbusters.org

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• 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 been running the show, with the first African-American president at the top of the heap, and it didn't get any better?

  Rush Limbaugh

  Running, Racism, President

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Let the good times roll is especially or risky message for African-Americans. The plain fact is that they tend to possess poor native judgment than members of better educated groups. Thus, they need stricter moral guidance from society.

  Steve Sailer

  Groups, Needs, Messages

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• African-American people adore President Obama.

  Julianne Malveaux

  People, President, Adore

  Source: www.democracynow.org

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• Lots of African-American people really so adore Barack Obama that they're unwilling to even be mildly critical of him.

  Julianne Malveaux

  People, Adore, Barack

  Source: www.democracynow.org

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• This is a column collection, or as one colleague called it, "history in real time," recounting my perspective on the highs and lows of this presidency from an African-American perspective. More than simply a column collection, the book has a substantial introduction that frames the [Barack] Obama presidency, explores the way Obama was treated by the political establishment and also how this first black president treated "his" people. In the epilogue, I use numbers to tell the story of African-American gains and losses during this presidency.

  Julianne Malveaux

  Real, Book, Loss

  Source: www.theskanner.com

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• While the banks got big bailouts, a sizeable chunk of African-American wealth evaporated because so many people lost homes.

  Julianne Malveaux

  Home, People, Wealth

  Source: www.theskanner.com

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• Most violence is intra-racial, and much of the violence in African-American communities is a function of drug availability, joblessness and poverty.

  Julianne Malveaux

  Availability, Community, Drug

  Source: www.theskanner.com

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• African-Americans have rarely been the beneficiaries of Presidential rhetorical excess.

  Julianne Malveaux

  Presidential, Excess, Rhetorical

  Source: www.theskanner.com

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• I serve on the Institute of the Black World's National Commission on African-American Reparations, and we have asked the President [Barack Obama] to, by executive order, establish a commission to study reparations. He can do this without Congressional approval. While I am not optimistic, I do hope that President Obama considers this in these waning months of his Presidency.

  Julianne Malveaux

  Optimistic, Order, Black

  Source: www.theskanner.com

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• I don't know how many off the record conversations I've had with African-American leaders who would not be quoted and refused to make their sentiments public.

  Julianne Malveaux

  Leader, Records, Conversation

  Source: www.theskanner.com

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• I wouldn't be surprised to see a lot of guns going off, you know, guns held by white men acting as vigilantes, cops who feel more free to open fire against African Americans.

  Allan Nairn

  Gun, Men, Fire

  Source: www.democracynow.org

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• The African-American community is not monolithic. It's liberal and conservative.

  Pam Grier

  Community, Conservative

  Source: www.ebony.com

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• I think Muslims in particular are facing similar obstacles African Americans did, historically.

  Ibtihaj Muhammad

  Thinking, Obstacles, Particular

  Source: www.popsugar.com

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• As an African-American parent, we have to really, really worry about our children and how our children are perceived in America.

  Tracy Martin

  Children, America, Worry

  Source: www.vanityfair.com

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• I would definitely like to see the education process more enhanced in African-American communities, because we need to be educated on laws that are relevant to our communities and our people, as well as to any other ethnic groups. A broader view of how people perceive African-American boys and girls in this country is what I'd like to see.

  Tracy Martin

  Girl, Country, Boys

  Source: www.vanityfair.com

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• Slavery remained in the Deep South by other names - in prison programs with charges over nothing and eternal debt that threatened every African-American in the South right up through World War II. And that was after killing three-quarters of a million people, destroying cities, and creating hostility that exists to this day over the the Confederate flag and the racism it symbolizes, all brewing out of bitterness over a war that didn't have to happen.

  David Swanson

  War, Cities, Names

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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