#blacks

I'm so disturbed when my women students behave as though they can only read women, or black students behave as though they can only read blacks, or white students behave as though they can only identify with a white writer. ↗

— Bell Hooks

#black #blacks #disturbed #i #identify

Politicians will not put forth programs aimed at the problems of poor blacks while their turnout remains so low. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#blacks #forth #low #politicians #poor

The Jewish background is not that far from the black groove. Blacks are downtrodden, Jews are downtrodden, therefore they have something in common in that affliction. Being downtrodden often makes one more empathetic and sympathetic. ↗

— Jerry Leiber

#background #being #black #blacks #common

Today's Constitution is a realistic document of freedom only because of several corrective amendments. Those amendments speak to a sense of decency and fairness that I and other Blacks cherish. ↗

— Thurgood Marshall

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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

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