Race Relations Quotes

Race Relations Quote of the day

Three hundred years of humiliation, abuse and deprivation cannot be expected to find voice in a whisper.

I have a dream that one day little black boys and girls will be holding hands with little white boys and girls.

Rather than evoke our sympathy, our familiarity with the lives of the black poor has bred spasms of fear and outright contempt. But mostly it's bred indifference.

There is nothing like race, is there?

There are no racists in America, or at least none that the people who need to be white know personally.

But in the earlier hours, or so I have read, they still have got their daylight minds. It takes the midnight mind to do the black deed to the black man.

And here's to the blues, the real blues— where there's a hint of hope in every cry of desperation.

sick of it whatever it's called sick of the namesI dedicate every pore to what's here

Racist legacy laws and modern racist practices are all part of the same system, and it needs to be changed now.

Discrimination does not 'make America great.' It makes America weak.

Ignorance of how we are shaped racially is the first sign of privilege. In other words. It is a privilege to ignore the consequences of race in America.

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.

Race should be seen in one way, and one way only: on your marks, get set, go!

Political correctness’ is a label the privileged often use to distract from their privilege and hate.

Beneath the armor of skin/and/bone/and/mindmost of our colors are amazingly the same.

People often call fighting discrimination being 'PC' because they don't want their own unearned privileges challenged.

If you can't see past my name, you can't see me.

Anyone intent on moral clarity might want to find another book and, in fact, might not want to go anywhere near the enduring chasm of race in the United States.

If you love your country, you must be willing to defend it from fraud, bigotry, and recklessness--even from a president.

It's a scary world we live in when a person of color endorses a racist for president.

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.

Take the side of truth, you'll be right every time.

Slavery is a sin when whites were put to the yoke, but not the African. All men are created equal, unless we decide you are not a man.

Race determines variables that yield results undesirable to one sector, while rendering a noticeable favor to others.

They tried to get me to hate white people, but someone would always come along & spoil it.

Becoming conscious of racism does not mean you are a racist.

Those white things have taken all I had or dreamed, " she said, "and broke my heartstrings too. There is no bad luck in the world but whitefolks.

Racism is dead only to those who've closed their eyes and ears to the whole world around them.

Pride is the problem. Everyone wants to be right so badly they overlook the "rights" of others.

White man trying to kill you slow every day, and sometimes trying to kill you fast. Why make it easy for him? That was one kind of work you could say no to.

She didn't tell him white folks couldn't love the same as coloreds. She couldn't love the same neither though, cuz more than half of her was white.

You ever think about the noose?''I been thinking about the noose since I was born.

There are no superior or inferior races. No one is intrinsically inferior or superior. All have the same value as creatures of god. Those who put others down simply want to exploit them.

To those supremacist racists I ask what color will be their bodies when they turn to dust.

Individual cultures and ideologies have their appropriate uses but none of them erase or replace the universal experiences, like love and weeping and laughter, common to all human beings.

Issues can only be resolved if each person accepts accountability in the problem.

There's "good" in all things. You just have to find it.

Only God can break through the variegated walls of skin to capture the one and only hue of the heart. One Blood.

In the midst of combat, we learned a great deal about mankind and its many different races, creeds and beliefs.

It's no longer time to take sides for or against race, rather sides against those who still do.

She learned early on, in her adopted country, that race was an easy excuse to stop awkward explanations. People hesitated to probe into such a sensitive matter.

You are growing into consciousness, and my wish for you is that you feel no need to constrict yourself to make other people comfortable.

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.

Electing a bigot enables further bigotry.

Ask anyone concerned with race to fast, and take note of the response you receive.

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.

It is character that should be the sole measure of judgement in the society of thinking humanity, and nothing short of that would do.

We must tell the world that even though we elected a bigot, bigotry will not prevail.

In the biological sense, race does not exist.