Black People Quotes - Page 32

• My father was a slave and my people died to build this country and I am going to stay here and have a part of it just like you.

  Paul Robeson

  Inspirational, Country, Father

  Testimony before House Un-American Activities Committee, 12 June 1956

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• Some white people hate black people, and some white people love black people, some black people hate white people, and some black people love white people. So you see it's not an issue of black and white, it's an issue of Lovers and Haters.

  Eden Ahbez

  Love, Hater, Black And White

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• So, to say Obama is progress is saying that he’s the first black person that is qualified to be president. That’s not black progress. That’s white progress. There’s been black people qualified to be president for hundreds of years. The question is, you know, my kids are smart, educated, beautiful, polite children. There have been smart, educated, beautiful, polite black children for hundreds of years. The advantage that my children have is that my children are encountering the nicest white people that America has ever produced. Let’s hope America keeps producing nicer white people.

  Chris Rock

  Beautiful, Children, Smart

  Interview with Frank Rich, www.vulture.com. November 30, 2014.

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• The data is going to indicate sadly that when the Obama administration is over, black people will have lost ground in every single leading economic indicator category.

  Tavis Smiley

  Data, People, Black

  "Tavis Smiley: 'Black People Will Have Lost Ground in Every Single Economic Indicator' Under Obama" by Noel Sheppard, www.newsbusters.org. October 11, 2013.

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