#blacks

Segregation was a burden for many blacks, because the end of the civil war and the amendments added to the constitution elevated expectations beyond reality in some respects. ↗

— Ed Smith

#because #beyond #blacks #burden #civil

We have a president who stole the presidency through family ties, arrogance and intimidation, employing Republican operatives to exercise the tactics of voter fraud by disenfranchising thousands of blacks, elderly Jews and other minorities. ↗

— Barbra Streisand

#blacks #elderly #employing #exercise #family

Even as someone who's labeled a conservative - I'm a Republican I'm black, I'm heading up this organization in the Reagan administration - I can say that conservatives don't exactly break their necks to tell blacks that they're welcome. ↗

— Clarence Thomas

#black #blacks #break #conservative #conservatives

When you look at where the real problems are among minorities in our society, particularly blacks, it's at the bottom. It's the people who are in school systems that don't educate, neighborhoods where there is a lot of crime, drugs, the whole bit. ↗

— Clarence Thomas

#bit #blacks #bottom #crime #educate

The idea that blacks, or anyone for that matter, need the government to get ahead in life is despicable. And even more important, this idea is a failure. Our communities are just as poor as they’ve always been. Our schools continue to fail children. Our prisons are filled with young black men who should be at home being fathers. Our self-initiative and our self-reliance have been sacrificed in exchange for allegiance to our overseers who control us by making us dependent on them. ↗

— Elbert Guillory

#government #home

What I'm fighting for now in my work... for an expression relevant to all manner of blacks, poems I could take into a tavern, into the street, into the halls of a housing project. ↗

— Gwendolyn Brooks

#could #expression #fighting #halls #housing

I decided blacks should not have to experience the difficulties I had faced, so I decided to open a flying school and teach other black women to fly. ↗

— Bessie Coleman

#blacks #decided #difficulties #experience #faced

I knew being accepted was going to be hard, but I knew I was involved in a situation that was going to bring opportunities to other blacks. ↗

— Larry Doby

#being #blacks #bring #going #hard

The African American's relationship to Africa has long been ambivalent, at least since the early nineteenth century, when 3,000 black men crowded into Bishop Richard Allen's African Methodist Episcopal Church in Philadelphia to protest noisily a plan to recolonize free blacks in Africa. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#african #allen #ambivalent #american #been

I think the idea is now for blacks to write about the history of our music. It's time for that, because whites have been doing it all the time. It's time for us to do it ourselves and tell it like it is. ↗

— Dizzy Gillespie

#because #been #blacks #doing #history