Words matter. These are the best Danny K. Davis Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
#BlackLivesMatter brought a new sense of urgency, audacity, and outrage to the issue of police violence against black men that has made it impossible to ignore, to cover up, or to justify.
The arts are what humanize science and history.
I’m a realist, and so we have to take what exists and continue to struggle to move forward.
I don’t think you decree political positions.
What the federal government can do, especially as it relates to urban, inner-city America, is invest resources that would help create jobs.
#BlackLivesMatter has raised the bar in our national dialog: Addressing economic inequality is necessary but not sufficient. It is also necessary to directly confront racial injustice.
We borrowed money to fight the Revolutionary War, and so there was a debt owed. We paid it. If we have done that for 235 years, if we have done it ever since this country has existed, we can do it again.
I have a tendency to campaign positively and campaign on issues, not try to tear someone else down.
The inequality between CEO compensation and the compensation received by workers and stockholders has grown to such an extent that it endangers our economy and and our society.
My mother often told us that it is a poor dog that will not wag its own tail.
I believe in our free market system.
Culture is central to what makes us human.
I grew up in rural Arkansas, and I’m afraid that begging is not part of our characteristics.
I’ve enjoyed a great friendship and relationship and have a tremendous amount of affinity for both the Clintons… and I’d like to keep it that way.
To ensure fair competition, there must be effective controls on currency manipulation, and monopoly pricing needs to be outlawed on such items as intellectual property, especially pharmaceuticals.
Everyone who has succeeded in correcting their wrong should have the right to work.
I’m not a one-issue person.
I’ve got hundreds of friends who are police officers. I work with the police.
The history of the African American community is one of enduring, relentless struggle with a vision of accepting nothing less than full social and economic equality.
I think life is the sum total of your experiences.
In politics, you make use of every opportunity.
I try to bridge the gap between police and local communities.
Trade and globalization are here to stay.
Strengthening our national network of Community Health Centers – one of the best kept secrets in medicine – can help counter America’s growing access problem.
One of the things about the Constitution – that our forefathers wrote, and basically, there were none of our foremothers that were there. There were none of our fore-sisters there. There are changes that can take place, and there is room to change.
I would jump off the Willis Tower, which is the tallest building in Chicago, to support Hillary Clinton.
Sickle cell does not have the priority in this country that it had in the 1960s, when I started working on it. Congress has been cutting everything that wasn’t nailed down.
Many of the young people living in inner-city America don’t see themselves – I mean, they even talk about things like death and dying. And there’s a tremendous loss of hope. And of all the things to lose, I think nothing is worse or more difficult to overcome than the loss of hope.
The thing that I guess I’ve never understood is why people persist that I carried a crown on a pillow to Reverend Moon. I never did. I took it to his wife.
I believe in democracy. I also believe in religious freedom.
