Angela Rye Quotes

Integration in the fields of education, housing, transportation and public accommodations will be of limited extent and duration so long as fundamental economic inequality along racial lines persist.

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.

When the civil rights battle was won, all the Jews and hippies and artists were middle class white people and all the blacks were still poor. Materially, not much changed.

The people who couldn't get out of New Orleans to escape the storm were predominantly Black.

Separate and unequal didn't work 100 years ago. It will not work today.

We're not willing to give black leaders second chances because, in most cases, we're not willing to give them first chances.

Children are not simply commodities to be herded into line and trained for the jobs that white people who live in segregated neighborhoods have available.

I know I got it made while the masses of black people are catchin' hell, but as long as they ain't free, I ain't free.

Because Katrina put it out there, no one can play the pretend game anymore that there isn't poverty and inequality in this country. The Millions More Movement - Katrina gives it added significance.

That fallacy flies in the face of studies that show, every day, in every way, things are getting a little worse for America's minorities relative to the progress made by those in the top percentiles of assets and income.

We don't want something for youth at risk, we want something for black youth at risk.

... if the United States is indeed the great melting pot, the Negro either didn't get in the pot or he didn't get melted down.

Visible minorities lead in education but trail in income.

There's no lobby for more spending on Black people in the cities.

It would be well for those interested to reflect whether there now exists, or ever has existed, a wealthy and civilized community in which one portion did not live on the labor of another.... Remember that labor is the only source of wealth, and how small a portion of it, in all old and civilized countries, even the best governed, is left to those by whose labor wealth is created.

Why should blacks feel elated about seeing men walk on the moon when millions of poor blacks and whites don't have enough money to buy food to eat on earth?

All the poor white people, all the poor black people, all the Hispanics, they're in the same boat. They've got no economic opportunities.

In a system that disproportionately harms poor people and people of color, too many Americans have lost faith in the essential American principle of equal justice under law.

In the area of economic justice, we still have a long way to go. We have too many people who are discriminated against just because they happen to be black or they happen to be a woman or some other minority.

Black Lives Matter was born out of our unwavering love for black people and our undeniable rage over a system that has historically dehumanized black people.

There is no excuse for inaction in the face of economic injustice.

God blessed us with all this money, so why not take the money and put it into my brother's case? Talk about social and racial injustice in our country, and mass incarceration in our country?

We need to dismantle the systems that were built on racism, that were built on the backs of black people.

We must acknowledge that issues like systemic racism, economic inequality, and the achievement gap are the result of manmade policies.

Black Lives Matter is really an affirmation for our people. It's a love note for our people, but it's also a demand. We know that the system was not designed for justice for us.