Julianne Malveaux Quotes

There's no great, white bigot; there's just about 200 million little white bigots out there.

History belongs to she who holds the pen...If we don't tell our stories, they won't be told.

When public policy is directed toward urban spaces, it is directed toward people who sit at the margins.

Black child poverty is higher. As I write in the epilogue, "Yes we can. No he didn't. President [Barack] Obama didn't push black people backward, but he missed the opportunity to move us forward."

Frankly, I'd love to see a multiparty system, like we have in some of our European countries. But I'm not sure how to get there.

If people don't know about you, that's not on them, it's on you.

George W. Bush is evil. He is a terrorist. He is evil. He is arrogant. And he is out of control.

If past behavior is any indication, Donald Trump's behavior would not be acceptable.

President [Barack] Obama's pick of Arne Duncan as Secretary of Education was abysmal.

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

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

Don't believe the hype that black North Carolinians are not voting. We've heard this time and time again. It's just not the truth.

Lots of African-American people really so adore Barack Obama that they're unwilling to even be mildly critical of him.

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.

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

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

I don't regret my votes for President Obama by any stretch of the imagination.

[My childhood was ] spiritual than religious.

I don't know how many off the record conversations I've had with African-American leaders who would not be quoted and refused to make their sentiments public.

Young African - millennials really love Barack Obama.

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

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

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

We didn't hold President Obama as accountable as we might have.

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.

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

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

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

[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.

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

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

In trying times, I like to remember that you have to keep walking because you can't see what is around the corner.

I am addicted to the printed word, and my idea of a good time is a good book.

Voting is not the most you can do; it's really the least you can do.

I like to think that life lessons are learned and re-learned every day and take on importance at different times in life.

One of the challenges, I think, is that Americans are not sufficiently vested in foreign policy.

I describe myself as a "spiritual sampler," raised Catholic, been Baptist, Methodist, and a Unity member.

The voter problems and voter suppression, in some ways they're the same thing, but in some ways they're not, because the suppression is evil.

Do you really think I'm going to go on record telling you the craziest thing I've ever done. There's a reel in my brain, and I think I'll keep it there. No regrets, though.

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

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

If the Muslim community in Michigan comes out strongly, I think they will make a difference.

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

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

It was quite a process to narrow more than 400 columns down to 80. I write weekly, though, and I don't always write about President [Barack] Obama, so that was the easy elimination.

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 president [Barack Obama] did introduce a jobs bill that could not clear Congress. The Republicans simply would not work with him.