Black Conservatives Quotes

#1. There are no black conservatives. Oh, there are neoconservatives with black skin, but they lack any claim to blackness other than the biological. They have forgotten their roots.

Stephen Carter

#2. Black conservatives have a right to exist, but why would I want to walk around with a swastika on my shirt after the way Hitler done messed it up?

Dick Gregory

#3. I think that there is a changing wind. There are black conservatives out there, and their voices need to be heard.

Allen West

#4. Most of all, however, critics of black conservatives say we've forgotten where we came from. I may forget a federal budget number or, God forbid, to set the alarm clock for my weekly 6 a.m. flight to Washington, but I know exactly where I came from.

J. C. Watts

#5. You can't get more racist than hating black conservatives just because they're black.

Greg Gutfeld

#6. There's no question that there's been a breach in the trust between urban - especially urban community, African-American and minority communities and the police in major American cities.

Mark Shields

#7. There are some in black robes sitting on federal benches all across this country. They're Democrats, Republicans, liberals, and even conservatives that pervert the Constitution.

Paul Broun

#8. There is no more destructive force in human affairs
not greed, not hatred
than the desire to have been right. Non-attachment to possessions is trivial when compared with non-attachment to opinions.

Mark A.R. Kleiman

#9. I don't like conservatives. They always talk about the good old days. I'm black, we have no good old days.

Alonzo Bodden

#10. I believe every change any word has undergone probably originated in ignorance.

Rita Mae Brown

#11. Conservatives have been using poor black and Latino children as mascots in the voucher crusade for a decade.

Cynthia Tucker

#12. Even as someone who's labeled a conservative - I'm a Republican I'm black, I'm heading up this organization in the Reagan administration - I can say that conservatives don't exactly break their necks to tell blacks that they're welcome.

Clarence Thomas

#13. If each year slightly less capital is invested in industry, the time will eventually come when the amount of equipment per laborer and, in consequence, the productivity and the wages of labor are less than they otherwise would be.

Sumner Slichter

#14. Comedy is unusual people in real situations; farce is real people in unusual situations.

Chuck Jones

#15. Mr. Cain would structurally change the voting demographic. There would be more black economic conservatives, and the Democrats would lose their stranglehold on the black vote.

Alveda King

#16. Fox News never calls up Bobby Seale to articulate a stance in opposition to right-wing conservatives. To me, giving the New Black Panthers a platform on Fox is a subtle tactic to scare people.

Bobby Seale