Race And Racism In America Quotes
Race And Racism In America Quote of the day
It’s no disgrace to be black, but it’s often very inconvenient.
Millions of tears have fallen for black sons, brothers, lovers, and friends whose assailants took or maimed their lives and then simply went on their way.
Trayvon Martin, at the most, seems only to have been guilty of being himself.
...all the fears with which I had grown up, and which were now a part of me and controlled my vision of the world, rose up like a wall between the world and me...
Only God can break through the variegated walls of skin to capture the one and only hue of the heart. One Blood.
It's no longer time to take sides for or against race, rather sides against those who still do.
Issues can only be resolved if each person accepts accountability in the problem.
If you see a group of people struggling over generations and you attribute those struggles to bad character, then you do not truly believe we are all created equally.
If we do not know how to meaningfully talk about racism, our actions will move in misleading directions.
Divided we are as people but if we stand together and fight we as a race will unite.
Acknowledging that all our land was stolen from Native people feels like too great a burden, so we create an alternative reality that allows us to disengage emotionally from the truth.
We must tell the world that even though we elected a bigot, bigotry will not prevail.
The instinct to tell our children that they are better than someone else’s children, based on nothing more than the color of their skin, is now a fossilized aberration that serves no useful purpose.
In the midst of combat, we learned a great deal about mankind and its many different races, creeds and beliefs.
I have no God to hold me up. And I believe that when they shatter the body they shatter everything, and I knew that all of us—Christians, Muslims, atheists—lived in this fear of this truth.
If I hadn't trained Lula Ann properly she wouldn't have known to always cross the street and avoid white boys.
Centuries-old wounds are still raw because they never healed right in the first place. Here is the essential truth. We are better together than we are apart.
It is character that should be the sole measure of judgement in the society of thinking humanity, and nothing short of that would do.
Pride is the problem. Everyone wants to be right so badly they overlook the "rights" of others.
Racist legacy laws and modern racist practices are all part of the same system, and it needs to be changed now.
People often call fighting racism being 'PC' when they don't want to confront their own prejudice
Sentiments that glorify humanity know no racial distinction.
Call up the ever-pure, the effulgent and the ever-radiant character of true humanism in yourself and in others, and no racism shall have the power to thrive in such society even for a few seconds.
In the biological sense, race does not exist.
Racism is dead only to those who've closed their eyes and ears to the whole world around them.
If origin defines race, then we are all Africans – we are all black.
It's a scary world we live in when a person of color endorses a racist for president.
Political correctness’ is a label the privileged often use to distract from their privilege and hate.
People often call fighting discrimination being 'PC' because they don't want their own unearned privileges challenged.
Whites saying 'make America white again' is like millionaires saying 'make the wealthy rich again.
