They're trying to woo black votes to the Republican Party, ... It's turning African-Americans off. Now everybody sees the arrogance and the hypocrisy of this administration. This is nothing personal. It's his policies -- in direct opposition to what Dr. King lived and died for.
Quotes about african-americans (16 Quotes)
We talk about freedoms for African-Americans but unless you have more than one option politically, how free are you?
Eight generations of African-Americans are still waiting to achieve their rights - compensation and restitution for the hundreds of years during which they were bought and sold on the market.
Up until, really, Roosevelt, African-Americans largely voted ninety per cent Republican. That was the political origins, that's what their political voice was in the Republican party. During that history, that last sixty or seventy years of history, the Republican party effectively walked away from the community. They were afraid to really embrace civil rights even though they embraced civil rights legislation. And so it's not enough to just to put it on paper, you gotta actually show up and be in the community, and understand what that struggle was really about.
I think he said a lot of the right things. Republicans are putting money behind this outreach and he ran down a number of things that the administration should be doing that would be attractive to African-Americans.
Take the time to discover how African-Americans have had a great impact on this country. In science, education, literature, art, and politics.
The challenges African-Americans are facing today are rooted in the system of slavery.
Out of 30 years of Second City I was probably the third African-American with the main stage cast. I was surprised when I first heard that. I think part of the reason that improvisation has never been popular with African-Americans is that it isn't popular in the inner cities.
When I was growing up, so many of the important changes for African-Americans were being made in the United States Supreme Court and were being made by lawyers. I followed the court very intensely and wanted to do that for my life.
It is my hope that as we commemorate Black History Month in the future, we will continue to celebrate the many achievements and rich culture of African-Americans.
I cannot find a pollster who can remember any president ever getting just two percent approval from African-Americans.
As much as everyone wants to downplay racism, it exists. There's a great mistrust among some African-Americans of white people.
I'd like to see marriage count again among African-Americans and not just in the society in general.
Ray Charles' revolutionary approach to music was also reflected in his politics and his deep and abiding commitment to Martin Luther King and the plight of African-Americans. Ray Charles may not have been on the front lines, but he put his money where his mouth was.
The Klan had used fear, intimidation and murder to brutally oppress over African-Americans who sought justice and equality and it sought to respond to the young workers of the civil rights movement in Mississippi in the same way.
I think one of the political problems we have in this country is the perspective that all soccer moms think alike, all African-Americans think alike.