#blacks

Robinson was important to all blacks. To make it into the majors and to take all the name calling, he had to be something special. He had to take all this for years, not just for Jackie Robinson, but for the nation. ↗

— Willie Mays

#calling #had #important #into #jackie

We knew then what we know now; only exemplary blacks are acceptable. ↗

— Constance Baker Motley

#blacks #exemplary #knew #know #now

Doing away with separate black colleges meets resistance from alumni and other blacks. ↗

— Constance Baker Motley

#away #black #blacks #colleges #doing

How long must the American community afford special treatment to blacks? ↗

— Constance Baker Motley

#american #blacks #community #how #long

My father kept his distance from working-class American blacks. ↗

— Constance Baker Motley

#blacks #distance #father #his #kept

There is no longer a single common impediment to blacks emerging in this society. ↗

— Constance Baker Motley

#common #emerging #impediment #longer #single

Too many whites still see blacks as a group apart. ↗

— Constance Baker Motley

#blacks #group #many #see #still

We blacks were the first people embracing Obama, long before the people at expensive fundraisers were supporting him. We gave him his first love, 96 percent of blacks voted for him in 2008. Yet today we are the number one in unemployment, with 16 percent of American blacks out of work. ↗

— Jesse Jackson

#before #blacks #embracing #expensive #first

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