Black Country People Quotes - Page 1

I have never really understood why in this country so many people look down on black people.
Lonnie Johnson /
Black
Country
Understood
Look People Never
Why
Never
Look Black People
Down
Look
Black Country People
Look Black Country
So Many People
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Black people must address itself to the causes of poverty. That's oppression in this country.
H. Rap Brown /
Black
Causes
Country
Oppression
People
Poverty
Address
Itself
Black Country People
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So black people all across this country are uniting. They must unite, and they must organize themselves.
H. Rap Brown /
Organize
Across
Black Country People
Unite
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I maintain that every civil rights bill in this country was passed for white people, not for black people.
Stokely Carmichael / Activist
Civil Rights
Country
Hippie
Rights
Bill
Civil
Black People Country
Black Country People
Maintain
Passed
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We know that gun violence disproportionately affects Black people in this country, and that was no exception with my son Jordan.
Lucy Mcbath /
Exception
Gun
Jordan
Affects
Disproportionately
Black Country People
No Exception
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Systemically, there hasn't been an oppression more overt and long-lasting than economic oppression against black people and minorities in this country.
Kerby Jean-Raymond /
Long Lasting
Minorities
Oppression
Black Country People
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It's built into the fabric of this country, you know - oppressing black people socially, politically and economically. They all kind of go hand in hand.
Maverick Carter /
Fabric
Black People Know
Economically
Black Country People
Socially
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In America we talk about South Africa, but I tell people that apartheid is nothing compared to what is happening in my country where black oppresses black.
Fela Kuti / Multi-Instrumentalist
America
Apartheid
Black
South Africa
Talk
Africa
Black People Nothing
Compared
Black Country People
Happening
Tell
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In this country, we force millions of people - who are largely black and brown - into a permanent second-class status simply because they once committed a crime.
Michelle Alexander / Professor
Committed
Permanent
Black Country People
Largely
Millions Of People
Second-Class
Status
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The fact is inner-city black districts are not the same as suburban Republican districts. That's a fact. And people need to go and learn about the whole country.
Newt Gingrich / Former U.s. Representative
Black People Country
Districts
Black Country People
Suburban
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A lot of people are quick to say that saying 'black lives matter' makes you anti-cop. All lives should indeed matter, but we have a systemic problem in this country in which black lives do not matter enough.
Angie Thomas /
Black Country People
Indeed
Quick
Systemic
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A lot of people of color and the Black Lives Matter movement will talk about what's really happening, but it seems like you can't get the black president to say something that's obvious about what's happening to black people in this country.
Jamila Woods /
Obvious
Black Country People
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For centuries in this country, black people were seen as three-fifths of a person. So when you hear the national anthem or you see an American flag as an African American person who has experienced the effects of that dehumanizing existence, it's not going to mean the same.
Maya Moore / Basketball Player
American Flag
Anthem
Black
Country
Effects
Existence
National Anthem
People Black See
People See Person
African
Seen
Centuries
Black People Person
Black People Country
Experienced
Flag
Black Country People
Hear
National
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In Soviet times, the border was closed, so we couldn't get out of the country, and I had been reading Robinson Crusoe. I wanted to see the ocean, I wanted to see boats, I wanted to see black people, because we didn't have that in the Soviet Union. I was all excited by that stuff.
Wladimir Klitschko / Professional Boxer
Ocean
Soviet
Soviet Union
People Black See
Boats
Border
Closed
Black People See
Black Country People
Union
Robinson
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I'm not familiar particularly with Hillary Clinton's neighborhood, but I wish people were a little bit more curious about what we call privilege and about why it's there. Black people in this country have no choice but to be curious. We have to know. I wish folks would do a little bit more investigation.
Ta-Nehisi Coates / Writer
Clinton
Curious
Familiar
Folks
Investigation
Little Bit
Neighborhood
Privilege
Wish
Call
Choice
Black People Know
Black People Country
Particularly
Black Country People
Hillary
No Choice
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