Famous Quotes & Sayings

J. C. Watts

That's the way blacks have been encouraged to think: that we got to stick together. You've got a situation today where if a black person says he thinks O.J. Simpson's guilty, other blacks will cut their eyes at him and say, 'You ought to go somewhere and sit down and shut up.'

Dambisa Moyo

I was born and raised in Zambia in 1969. At the time of my birth, blacks were not issued birth certificates, and that law only changed in 1973.

My brother Jim and I saw our father go into the jails and pray with the inmates Sunday after Sunday. He prayed with both blacks and whites. If we ever repeated any slurs we heard on the playground, he'd tell us very softly, "I don't want to hear those words.

Whites are significantly less likely to say that there are problems for blacks today,

Whites and blacks have a right to work in an environment free of discrimination. The goal of this lawsuit is to protect that right.

While all Americans are suffering from this invasion, we blacks are suffering the most.

I think some of those goals are impossible to get. It's kind of a weird system, but most of the time when we have more blacks than reds, we're in the win column.

Even when there's no natural disaster Blacks have lived the closest (to these facilities),

George Clooney

This group of people gave Hattie McDaniel an Oscar in 1939 when blacks were still sitting in the back of theatres.

Pierre Berbizier

In all three matches we have lacked the killer instinct which both the All Blacks and England possess.

(In these films) the blacks establish their worthiness only by serving white men. The screen image of the Zulu obscures and overwhelms the reality.

A lot of whites thought there would not be another white mayor. And blacks thought there always would be a black mayor. Now they are starting to rethink their position.

It was the first time whites and blacks had ever played for the city championship.

Matt Williams

His experience as a winning captain in international rugby with the All Blacks and as a winning captain in both the Super 12 and NPC with Canterbury will be invaluable to our squad.

In order to get large numbers of blacks back into New Orleans would require huge amounts of money.

He's fair. Look at the way he treats people. Look at some of the guys that are here and have come through here. He gives guys opportunities where in other places they had been shunned. He wipes the slate and blacks the board and judges you on what you do here.

Russell Simmons

These blacks here today see the poverty and ignorance that is keeping us at a certain place. They know where the forces are, and they will come together and force our government to respond to the poverty and ignorance that's rampant in our country.

Mary Ford

It's not surprising. A lot of blacks didn't get to go to school. They were kept from being educated. It hasn't been a question of talent, it's been a question of opportunity.

If you look at 1916 to 1948, blacks are moving. That's the heyday of jazz in terms of popular culture.

James Williams

At Boca Raton, when I got down there, they didn't segregate us - until they saw some other blacks - then they put the blacks in the rooms together.

You can't hire blacks if there's not a pool of black recruits to choose from.

Ed Koch

there was no limit to how high blacks could rise in my administration.

Studs Terkel

Race: How Blacks & Whites Think & Feel About the American Obsession.

The numbers for blacks have remained pretty flat over the past decades.

Ebony and Jet increased the visibility of blacks and said that there is a diversity of experience in the black community. Not everyone is poor, and there are celebrities.

still has an opportunity to reach out to blacks during the reconstruction, giving the displaced people a role in the project. But there is a problem. Already, he has made some mistakes. No-bid contracts are going to firms with close ties to Bush, and those don't tend to be minority-owned businesses.

Kenny Leon

It's the ultimate universally engaging play, ... It was important to have 20-year-olds and 80-year-olds in the audience, to have blacks and whites in the audience.

Clint Eastwood

The U.S. military was segregated 'til the Korean War, and the blacks in World War Two were totally segregated.

Gareth Thomas

It's been a difficult series but we didn't give up. If you look at the series as a whole we weren't the better team. The All Blacks deserved it.

Ann Taylor

I don't mean to offend, ... but whites just didn't see that blacks should be included in the history.

The first part of the civil war was really fought between white people. The second part of the civil war was the Civil Rights Movement, fought between blacks and the greater establishment.

John Franklin

The circumstances are remarkable when you stop to think about what you couldn't do in Raleigh and in Richmond. After 1831, they didn't want blacks to learn the ABCs. She put those boys in school,

These guys went home and called their brothers from Kansas City (Missouri). Their brothers got in contact with us and several other blacks in Missouri, and they said, 'You guys run like you normally do down this certain street, and we're going to be waiting and put a stop to all this.