Clare-Hope Ashitey Quotes

I think that the dialogue between police officers and the black community has to get better, but not better in a way where, 'Oh, let's talk about it when something horrible happens.' The dialogue has to be going on consistently, every day.

I'm dedicated to healing the wounds between police and minority communities so both sides feel safe again.

The horrific cases in Ferguson, in Staten Island with the death of Eric Garner, and all across the country serve as stark reminders that we must have a say in who polices us, and how that policing is done. We must, we must, let our voices be heard on Election Day.

I feel like I've built big enough platform and still building my platform for us to get justice for Breonna Taylor.

We need to have law enforcement and the African-American community work together for the safety of everybody.

I want to see Black Lives Matter be able to ultimately reduce law enforcement funding.

Being a woman, we talk about equal pay all the time. We're not talking about if you're black or if you are Latina. I would like to get back to that and improving the relationship between the police community and the community of color. I don't know exactly all the right things to say, but I want to engage in that conversation.

The share of Americans who say race relations are bad in this country is the highest it's been in decades, much of it amplified by shootings of African-Americans by police, as we've seen recently in Charlotte and Tulsa.

As important as the presidency is, that's not the only thing to take a look at in determining the racial health of the United States.

As I said last week in the wake of the grand jury decision, I think Ferguson laid bare a problem that is not unique to St. Louis or that area, and is not unique to our time, and that is a simmering distrust that exists between too many police departments and too many communities of color.

My administration will tackle these issues in consultation with the black communities of London.

Ferguson and St. Louis County are not the first places that we have become engaged to ensure fair and equitable policing, and they will not be the last. The Department of Justice will continue to work tirelessly to ensure that the Constitution has meaning for all communities.

We need to work for a day when police shootings are rare and not the stuff of our daily news.

I started a lecture series that was inspired by my reporting on race in America. The 'Black in America' series launched on CNN in 2007 as an opportunity to freshen the national conversation on race.

I've thought from the start that a parallel federal investigation into the death of Michael Brown is important. I also believe that our state and local elected officials have been given a responsibility by the people who they work for to get to the bottom of this tragedy.

I realize I will always be the poster child for police brutality, but I can try to use that as a positive force for healing and restraint.

We have to have a national conversation about how police forces should interact with the African-American community, who happens to be paying their salary, who want to be served and protected, who these officers are take an oath to do so.

This whole notion of a post racial America was nonsense from the very beginning. It was a bad idea, a bad notion, a bad formulation when it was first raised.

There's a full-court press to put down an uprising around Ferguson, but no preparation for lifting up the people there.

It's hard to say when or if we will actually arrive at that place called 'post-racial', or, better yet, post-racism.

If white America is ready to extend complete democratic rights to colored people, there will be no race, no racial tension and no racial prejudice on either side, but we can be sure that any movement 'back to normalcy' in race relations will be bitterly resisted by colored people. It is now up to white America to make its choice...

The issue of race could benefit from a period of benign neglect.

Laquan McDonald is a wake-up call to all of us. It's a reminder there's a lot broken.

It really bothers me when people say we live in a postracial America.

We were raised in the black community not to trust the police, and I believe, in the white community, they were raised to actually be a policeman.