If we have an honest discussion on whether the war on poverty should be fought with welfare or with economic growth in the private sector, Democrats will lose black votes. – Alveda King
African-Americans who might have disagreed with candidate Obamas left-of-center politics voted for him in 2008 because electing a candidate with brown skin was too historic an opportunity to miss. – Alveda King
Racism oppresses its victims, but also binds the oppressors, who sear their consciences with more and more lies until they become prisoners of those lies. They cannot face the truth of human equality because it reveals the horror of the injustices they commit. – Alveda King
A majority, perhaps as many as 75 percent, of abortion clinics are in areas with high minority populations. Abortion apologists will say this is because they want to serve the poor. You dont serve the poor, however, by taking their money to terminate their children. – Alveda King