We have a problem in this Nation of being able to talk civilly about race.
I received the opportunities through many years of struggle by so many people and so many organizations who forced our g...
the recommendations are recommendations which this Committee should embrace.
We also must begin to repair the damage for the inhumane government-sanctioned institution of slavery, which continues t...
The greatest damage that enslavement did, besides the economic damage, besides the normalization of torture, of rape, be...
I believe this is an urgent moment. And this bill, which I am now leading on the Senate side, is the beginning of an imp...
I was able to buy a house because of a government policy that allowed people on public assistance to purchase a home.
Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman.
The Federal Government should pay because the Federal Government was deeply complicit in housing segregation and redlini...
The stain of slavery was not just inked in bloodshed but in the overt state-sponsored policies that fueled white suprema...
I am concerned about those who have been left behind, the masses of African American descendants of slaves who are mired...
Environmental justice, clean air, clean water for them to thrive in a world at peace in which they can reach their fulfi...
You remind me today of Dr.--another one of Dr. King's speeches, which he gave at Riverside Church, when he talked about ...
Slavery was a government policy. The lack of civil rights was a government policy.
How is it that you can say the war on poverty failed, when it is politicians who de-funded that war?
The growing gap between the rich and the poor in this country is a direct result of policy decisions, not the immorality...
This is not--we have a social safety net in this nation. It is being frayed, and it is being decimated, and hollowed out...
We could reduce child poverty by 50 percent in the next decade.
