Quotes by Maxine Waters

“You have your local city government and your community redevelopment agencies who will tell you that they want to take private property because they want to do away with blight, they want to upgrade the neighborhood, ... I dont buy that.”

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. Weve had the war on poverty that never really got into waging a real war on poverty.

I have a right to my anger, and I dont want anybody telling me I shouldnt be, that its not nice to be, and that somethings wrong with me because I get angry.