Julianne Malveaux famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Of course, Mr. Hannity was outraged that any American would not cross her hand over her heart and repeat the hypocritical words, one nation. Whenever we come up on the Fourth of You Lie, I think of Frederick Douglas and his masterful oration, The meaning of the Fourth of July to the Negro. Pledge the flag? I think not!
-- Julianne Malveaux

#Lying #Heart #Thinking
When public policy is directed toward urban spaces, it is directed toward people who sit at the margins.
-- Julianne Malveaux

#Space #People #Urban
I hope his wife feeds him [Clarence Thomas, Justice, U.S. Supreme Court] lots of eggs and butter and he dies early like many black men do, of heart disease. . . . He is an absolutely reprehensible person.
-- Julianne Malveaux

#Heart #Men #Eggs
George W. Bush is evil. He is a terrorist. He is evil. He is arrogant. And he is out of control.
-- Julianne Malveaux

#Evil #Arrogant #Terrorist
There's no great, white bigot; there's just about 200 million little white bigots out there.
-- Julianne Malveaux

#White #Racism #Littles
History belongs to she who holds the pen...If we don't tell our stories, they won't be told.
-- Julianne Malveaux

#Stories #Pens #Ifs
If people don't know about you, that's not on them, it's on you.
-- Julianne Malveaux

#People #Knows #Ifs
In trying times, I like to remember that you have to keep walking because you can't see what is around the corner.
-- Julianne Malveaux

#Trying #Remember #Walking
Voting is not the most you can do; it's really the least you can do.
-- Julianne Malveaux

#Voting #Can Do #You Can Do It
Interesting statistic: In every economic recovery until 1982, working people captured more than 80 percent of the value of the recovery. Since 1982, the top 10 percent has captured 90 percent of the value of the economic recovery.
-- Julianne Malveaux

#Recovery #People #Interesting
I like to think that life lessons are learned and re-learned every day and take on importance at different times in life.
-- Julianne Malveaux

#Life Lesson #Thinking #Different
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."
-- Julianne Malveaux

#Children #Moving #Writing
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.
-- Julianne Malveaux

#Country #Not Sure #European Countries
One of the challenges, I think, is that Americans are not sufficiently vested in foreign policy.
-- Julianne Malveaux

#Thinking #Challenges #Foreign Policy
I describe myself as a "spiritual sampler," raised Catholic, been Baptist, Methodist, and a Unity member.
-- Julianne Malveaux

#Spiritual #Catholic #Unity
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.
-- Julianne Malveaux

#Evil #Voters #Way
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.
-- Julianne Malveaux

#Regret #Thinking #Brain
As I write in the book, I do not regret either of my votes for President [Barack] Obama, nor my support of him when he ran for the Senate before that. I get excited as I ever did when I see that black man on Air Force One. But I won't settle for symbolism, and our President's record should be open for analysis.
-- Julianne Malveaux

#Regret #Book #Writing
While people are prepared to talk about Social Security, about marriage equality, about any number of other issues, people are not prepared - your layperson is not prepared to have a conversation about foreign policy.
-- Julianne Malveaux

#Numbers #Issues #People
References to everybody just disturb me, and it also disturbs me that the people who make policy are not the same people who live policy. When we talk about everybody, we are leaving a whole lot of bodies out.
-- Julianne Malveaux

#People #Leaving #Body
If the Muslim community in Michigan comes out strongly, I think they will make a difference.
-- Julianne Malveaux

#Thinking #Differences #Community
I am addicted to the printed word, and my idea of a good time is a good book.
-- Julianne Malveaux

#Book #Ideas #Printed Word
People have been unhappy for a long time about the two-party system.
-- Julianne Malveaux

#Party #Two #Long
Indeed, as soon as he took office, Senator Mitch McConnell announced that his top priority was to deny President [Barack] Obama a second term.
-- Julianne Malveaux

#Office #Priorities #President
Bernie Sanders has the momentum, and I think that that's something that we can't ignore.
-- Julianne Malveaux

#Thinking #Momentum

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