Colin Kaepernick Quotes

We've got to help our community out. We've got to help Baltimore out, because it's a lot of things that have been handed down in our society that we're dealing with.

All the legislation in the world cannot fix what is wrong with America.

I think we've made tremendous progress on racism. We've even made progress on war. We've made almost no progress on poverty.

This nation has always struggled with how it was going to deal with poor people and people of color. Every few years you will see some great change in the way that they approach this. We've had the war on poverty that never really got into waging a real war on poverty.

Hurricane Katrina was a disaster. It exposed the soft underbelly of America when it comes to race and class.

When the human race neglects its weaker members, when the family neglects its weakest one - it's the first blow in a suicidal movement. I see the neglect in cities around the country, in poor white children in West Virginia and Virginia and Kentucky - in the big cities, too, for that matter.

Criminality is always the result of poverty. Countries that experience such a fundamental change as we have - we had the apartheid regime and must now develop a multicultural democracy - must necessarily pass through a phase of high crime rates.

Certainly, the poverty, the discrimination, the episodic unemployment could not but strike an inquiring youngster: why did these exist, and what could we do about them.

We do have a problem in this country. You can either make a movie and ignore that, or you can acknowledge it and say, this is the water that we're living in. You know this - the movie lives in this - it's centered around this particular problem, and I chose to acknowledge it.

As African-Americans, we often spend our time and energy blaming other people for the problems we see around us.

That made me feel good, not to go to a resort where outside the door is extreme poverty.

I didn't say I wouldn't go into ghetto areas. I've been in many of them and to some extent I would say this; if you've seen one city slum, you've seen them all.

No matter how big a nation is, it is no stronger than its weakest people…

We will not settle for a state that will settle for an underclass.

You know there's problems - you can see all the poverty and so on - but it's quite another matter to know what you can do about it.

We have a lot of societal problems that we have to fix in the 1990s.

We must acknowledge that issues like systemic racism, economic inequality, and the achievement gap are the result of manmade policies.

I think the black community has a lot to work on internally with what they deem successful.

Without comprehending the role of identity, many issues we all face will remain unresolved.

Mass incarceration is the result of small, distinct steps, each of whose significance becomes more apparent over time, and only when considered in light of later events.

Chicago is an incredibly great city, but it was clear to me that greatness wasn't being spread to all our neighborhoods.

The only difference between Compton and other cities is the ZIP Code, you know, and the mindset - it's just really about challenging people to take ownership of our community.

Chicago, I feel, is a microcosm for the segregated, violent environment that is America. I try to not only speak about these things in music, but also try to address these things in real life tangibly with action.

I think solving the problems of America is what's good.

God blessed us with all this money, so why not take the money and put it into my brother's case? Talk about social and racial injustice in our country, and mass incarceration in our country?