Julianne Malveaux Quotes - Page 2

Bernie Sanders has the momentum, and I think that that's something that we can't ignore.

Indeed, as soon as he took office, Senator Mitch McConnell announced that his top priority was to deny President [Barack] Obama a second term.

If some of the recovery money had gone to cities instead of states, the urban population, read "Black" and "Brown," would be better off with recovery jobs.

The economy is better than the one President [Barack] Obama inherited, and unemployment is lower, but the unemployment rate gap remains large.

Sometimes, I repeat myself, and that was a second elimination [of Barack Obama]. I worked with a team, including a great editor who, as the project came together, suggested other additions and eliminations. It was a process.

People have been unhappy for a long time about the two-party system.

I especially appreciated hearing the President [Barack Obama] affirm that "black lives matter" and that it means that some citizens are feeling more pain, and experiencing more negative effects than others, and he offered up the stats. He also indicated that black lives matter does not negate the fact that blue lives matter. He ably walked the tightrope, here, between affirming both black life and police life.

The President [Barack Obama] became quite emotional about transgender student rights, threatening to pull Department of Education funds from school districts that do not comply with federal regulations. Black children are suspended from school three times more than white children are, and there is no evidence that black children are three times as unruly.

[Barack Obama] intended, I think, to say that he took Trayvon's [ Martin] death somewhat personally.

African-Americans have rarely been the beneficiaries of Presidential rhetorical excess.

[Barack Obama] might say more about these rogue cops and their license to kill.

He was in Poland to participate in the NATO conference, President [Barack] Obama did respond well to the back-to-back killings, as well as to the attacks on Dallas police officers that followed.

This was in 2004, and it told me that President [Barack] Obama intended to be very careful and noncontroversial in addressing race matters. I

I serve on the Institute of the Black World's National Commission on African-American Reparations, and we have asked the President [Barack Obama] to, by executive order, establish a commission to study reparations. He can do this without Congressional approval. While I am not optimistic, I do hope that President Obama considers this in these waning months of his Presidency.

I've talked to dozens of Chicagoans who will only go off the record in talking about the manufactured mythology.

Ronald Reagan's attack on people who receive public assistance was partially an attack on people of color.

Tavis Smiley lost lots of corporate support after he was critical of President [Barack] Obama.

Bernie Sanders just seems to not have the personality to engage with people at the grassroots level.

You have a lot of young people who still feel somewhat marginalized, even if they do vote for Hillary Clinton.

Always firmly believing in a higher power, I have also always been in search of a spiritual peace.

The published record will show that many in Chicago have mixed feedback on the President's [Barack Obama] role as organizer.

Trayvon Martin could have been any of our sons, so I was not especially moved by that remark of President [Barack] Obama's.

The Task Force didn't produce any earth-shattering findings but it suggests that this matter is on the president's radar screen.

I do know that, you know, Donald Trump has a global portfolio, and many global investors are in Russia.

We have a very large military community - veterans and others - who basically do believe in the militarism.