Danny K. Davis Quotes

Danny K. Davis

Profession : Politician

Birth : September 6, 1941

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.

Danny K. Davis

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.

Danny K. Davis

Our nation's multiculturalism is what makes us so special as a nation.

Danny K. Davis

I would jump off the Willis Tower, which is the tallest building in Chicago, to support Hillary Clinton.

Danny K. Davis

I've been around low-income people all of my life. I mean, growing up, low income, the community where I've chosen to live, low-income.

Danny K. Davis

I just want to believe that, as a citizen in this country, that I have equal protection under the law and that I can have a situation assessed fairly, that people can look at it, and that a court of law can determine what the outcome is.

Danny K. Davis

Universal coverage is a critical goal, but even if every man and woman, every parent and every child in America woke up with an insurance card in their hands, they would still need a place to go for health care.

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Middle school students are at a critical time in their lives when making good choices matters - the decisions they make in these formative years have an impact on their future success.

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Everyone who has succeeded in correcting their wrong should have the right to work.

Danny K. Davis

The arts are what humanize science and history.

Danny K. Davis

I'm a realist, and so we have to take what exists and continue to struggle to move forward.

Danny K. Davis

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.

Danny K. Davis

#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.

Danny K. Davis

It would be wonderful to be a member of the United States Senate.

Danny K. Davis

Individuals in the South are just like individuals any place else.

Danny K. Davis

#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.

Danny K. Davis

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.

Danny K. Davis

Nothing has more impact on my district than unemployment.

Danny K. Davis

I believe in democracy. I also believe in religious freedom.

Danny K. Davis

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.

Danny K. Davis