Charles Barron Quotations

We're going to stay here until every one of them has a decent place to go.

What he did in New Orleans -- I mean, that's worse than what Bull Connor did in his entire career as a racist in the South. Look at these neighborhoods before Katrina hit. Bush made that community what it is. Katrina did the rest, in partnership with Bush, to deliver the final blow.

Mayor De Blasio's appointment of Bill Bratton as police commissioner is the height of hypocrisy. Asking Bratton to stop racial profiling and stop and frisk is like asking an arsonist to help you put out fires. Bratton along with his partner Giuliani started and supported racial profiling stops. A new progressive mayor? I think not!

I want to go up to the closest white person and say: 'You can't understand this, it's a black thing' and then slap him, just for my mental health.

Our public schools need to be in the control of parents and the community, as opposed to businessmen who see the $23 billion budget as a means to giving no-bid contracts to their cronies.

She doesn't play the gender card or the race card in the debates, but when she's in the streets and in the churches, she makes it very clear that she's a proud black woman who is out to make history,

I don't think we will crumble the economy of the United States on May 1 but we will make a dent.

for the very first time in history, 'Madame Mayor, C. Virginia Fields.'

He's denigrating the only black woman in the race. I'm sick and tired of his last-minute antics. ... He just tries to be a kingmaker.

Katrina showed America that race and class matters,

We are going to have a huge influx, and there is going to be a lot of people,

Before Katrina hit New Orleans, it was already one of the poorest places in the country, ... I think it is right to gather and look at an agenda for more equitable distribution of wealth in America, at what are we going to do about affordable housing and education.

I have serious concerns about Mr. Ferrer. I expect I will want to sit down with him to discuss them,

I don't think there's any price that you could put on a life, ... But I think the price needs to be steep enough for the officers that are trigger-happy to become a financial liability for the city.