Charles Steele Quotations

The extension is crucial. We can't expect a system that enslaved us to save us.

New Orleans had devastation prior to the hurricane. We were warning them that the city was heading to catastrophe, but we got the hurricane instead. There is no economic base for black folks. They're supposed to wait tables for $5 an hour. And people are surprised there's poverty and rage?

I think it?s wrong. We have worked every day of our lives to pay for these properties. To me, it?s people, not property.

We got to have the NAACP, the SCLC, the Rev. Al Sharptons,

We should remove the documentation from where she was arrested because it was unconstitutional.

We have become a society of haves and have-nots. That was a problem before the hurricane, and it's still a continuous problem.

This will be a national march, ... At our count, there have been 130 people killed around the nation by these Taser guns. We will not sit idly by and not say anything about it.

FEMA is already looking to areas other than where the disaster started. They call it free money, and they are giving it to their friends.

Everything is God's will, ... But there's a certain amount of common sense that God gives to individuals to prepare for certain things.

The worst thing you can do is allow this by being silent. We could not have made it without fair-minded, thinking white folks. You are here tonight, black and white, because you care.

I'm more convinced now we need a moratorium,

This is not about Danny Porter or Charles Steele or SCLC, ... I want to have a conversation with the nation.