Top 76 Quotes & Sayings by Julianne Malveaux - Page 2

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

When Ronald Reagan became president, students could no longer get food stamps.

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

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

Most violence is intra-racial, and much of the violence in African-American communities is a function of drug availability, joblessness and poverty.

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

I think the takeaway from not holding President Obama accountable is, no matter how enthusiastic you are about Hillary Clinton, no matter how enthusiastic you are, the first thing that needs to happen is that people need to start planning how to hold her accountable.

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

Obviously these conditions [violence, poverty] predate the [Barack] Obama presidency and the president has limited ways to dent this violence. But funding war weapons in cities, as opposed to more community policing, is not the solution.

Did Rahm Emmanuel serve President Barack] Obama or did he serve himself as he prepared to run for Mayor of Chicago? I don't use the term black-on-black violence, since I've never heard the term white-on-white violence.

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

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

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.

President [Barack] Obama did put together a task force on 21st Century Policing, led by Philadelphia police chief Charles Ramsey, to look at some of these issues after Ferguson.

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.

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.