Black Community Quotes - Page 4

• In the black community when we think of a couselor or sitting down with a therapist there is that taboo attached to people of being psychotic and crazy. Really it's not it's just sitting down having a conversation.

  Gabrielle Dennis

  Crazy, Thinking, People

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• We should not have drug laws or a court system that disproportionately punishes the black community.

  Rand Paul

  Law, Community, Drug

  "NAACP chief: A GOP path to black votes" By Benjamin Todd Jealous, www.cnn.com. April 24, 2013.

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• If the churches don't move, much of the community won't move. We've got a situation in which a black church is still a major institution in the black community where 55 percent of the black folk attend and over 75 pass through its doors.

  Cornel West

  Moving, Doors, Community

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The whole future of America's black community is at risk. One out of every three young black men in Washington, D.C., is under one arm or the other of the criminal justice system. These are the continuing consequences of slavery.

  Randall Robinson

  Men, America, Justice

  Interview with Amitabh Pal, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. September 26, 2005.

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• A lot of people heard about gin and juice for the first time from Snoop Dogg, but it was nothing new in rap music, and it was nothing new in the black community.

  Boots Riley

  Rap, People, Community

  Source: therumpus.net

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• These events are swirling around them. In the white community, people felt like they had no control over their neighborhoods, their destiny. In the black community, centuries of government and economic forces were pushing on them. I went in with a kind of arrogance, maybe, that came from living in a very intellectual family, and I left knowing that there was a lot about the way people lived that I didn't know about.

  Sara Paretsky

  Destiny, Government, White

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• We don't have a full black community in Boston. Our people are scattered. There's a middle class where I live in Highland Park but it's not like a piece of Washington or Chicago.

  Henry Hampton

  Boston, Class, People

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• I've gotten nothing but warmth from the Black community and positive feedback.

  Misty Copeland

  Community, Black, Feedback

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• My administration will tackle these issues in consultation with the black communities of London.

  Ken Livingstone

  Issues, Community, Black

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• Republicans think that the NAACP is the only voice in the black community. It is a voice in the black community. But it's not the only voice.

  J. C. Watts

  Thinking, Voice, Community

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• There are many positive things to say about the black community. No question about it.

  William Julius Wilson

  Community, Black, Positive Things

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• In the case of a man and a woman [accused of commiting a crime together], both will often agree to the man taking the rap despite the man being more likely to receive a longer sentence and more likely to be raped in prison. If blacks were agreeing to do that for whites, the black community would be smart enough to call that 'learned subservience.'

  Warren Farrell

  Smart, Rap, Men

  "The Myth of Male Power". Book by Warren Farrell, 1993.

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• I'm albino, my family is white, but I was really raised, and taught my important life lessons, by the black community.

  Brother Ali

  Life Lesson, White, Community

  Interview with David Brusie, music.avclub.com. April 26, 2007.

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• Music is the very cement that has not just held the black community together but holds black selves together in a fundamental sense.

  Cornel West

  Self, Community, Black

  Interview with Itabari Njeri, articles.latimes.com. October 22, 1995.

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• I think that the response to the OJ Simpson trial was based on a kind of sensibility that emerged out of the many campaigns to defend black communities against police violence.

  Angela Davis

  Thinking, Police Violence, Community

  Frontline Interview, www.pbs.org. 1997.

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• I think in black communities today we need to encourage a lot more cross racial organizing.

  Angela Davis

  Thinking, Community, Black

  Frontline Interview, www.pbs.org. 1997.

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• We can't talk about the black community. It's no longer a homogeneous community; it was never a homogeneous community.

  Angela Davis

  Community, Black, Homogeneous

  PBS Interview, www.pbs.org. 1997.

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• I think we have to really focus on the issues much more than we may have in the past. I think we have to seek to create coalitional strategies that go beyond racial lines. We need to bring black communities, Chicano communities, Puerto Rican communities, Asian American communities together.

  Angela Davis

  Thinking, Past, Issues

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• We were coming out of the black community with this thing called rap music, which was basically black men yelling at the top of their lungs about what we liked and what we didn't like. It was disturbing to the status quo. It really shook things up. And those in power didn't know what to make of us, but they knew that we had to be silenced, stopped in any way from expressing our outrage.

  Chuck D

  Rap, Men, Yelling

  Interview with Antonino D'Ambrosio, progressive.org. July 20, 2005.

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• And I've always been very close to my friends and allies in the black community, the Latino community and organized labor.

  Tom Hayden

  Community, Black, Organized Labor

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• The reason why rappers are living in - you know, driving in Mercedes-Benz's and living in neighborhoods is because they're selling their music, not just to the black community, but to the white community.

  Eric Bolling

  Rapper, White, Community

  Source: www.patheos.com

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• In 1990, when we started the Black Community Crusade for Children, we were always talking about all children, but we paid particular attention to children who were not white, who were poor, who were disabled, and who were the most vulnerable.Parents didn't think their children would live to adulthood, and the children didn't think they were going to live to adulthood. That's when we started our first gun-violence campaign. We've lost 17 times more young black people to gun violence since 1968 than we lost in all the lynching in slavery.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Children, Thinking, Gun

  Interview with Jurnee Smollett-Bell, www.lennyletter.com. April 8, 2016.

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• Donald Trump has not held an event in the black community. He has not gone to a black church, as Hillary Clinton has done.

  Donna Brazile

  Community, Black, Church

  "This Week" with George Stephanopoulos, abcnews.go.com. August 28, 2016.

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• I've heard Donald [Trump]s ay this at his rallies, and it's really unfortunate that he paints such a dire negative picture of black communities in our country.

  Hillary Clinton

  Country, Community, Black

  Source: time.com

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• Though the rampant racial injustices throughout the criminal justice system were offensive to me and to millions of other people, I've never drawn a tight circle around the black community to define the limits of my moral concern. But that narrative tends to get imposed on you, if you're an African-American activist.

  Van Jones

  Circles, People, Justice

  Source: aalbc.com

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