Race Relations Quotes
I'm too old to be ignorant as I am." --Twelve-year-old Gabriella to the general, who does not want her to know about Emmett Till and the world's brutality.
You ever think about the noose?''I been thinking about the noose since I was born.
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.
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.
Beneath the armor of skin/and/bone/and/mindmost of our colors are amazingly the same.
If you love your country, you must be willing to defend it from fraud, bigotry, and recklessness--even from a president.
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.
The United States is like one big jail for Black people, because we're locked into a mentality and a mindset that limits our potential. It has us against us.
To those supremacist racists I ask what color will be their bodies when they turn to dust.
Issues can only be resolved if each person accepts accountability in the problem.
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.
In the midst of combat, we learned a great deal about mankind and its many different races, creeds and beliefs.
Race determines variables that yield results undesirable to one sector, while rendering a noticeable favor to others.
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.
White supremacy is a black person telling the people of Baltimore to chill out and try peace, thinking they came up with that thought all on their own.
There are no racists in America, or at least none that the people who need to be white know personally.
I am groping about through this American forest of prejudice and proscription, determined to find some form of civilization where all men will be accepted for what they are worth.
Ask anyone concerned with race to fast, and take note of the response you receive.
The tension between people is palpable, and the ideal of what it means to be and look American becomes a preoccupation to folks around the country, including me.
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.
Only God can break through the variegated walls of skin to capture the one and only hue of the heart. One Blood.
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 elected a man who knows how to build walls when we needed someone who knows how to build bridges.
Pride is the problem. Everyone wants to be right so badly they overlook the "rights" of others.
When you're marginalized, there are no "them people, " if we're all on the outskirts of the same margin.
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.
Whites saying 'make America white again' is like millionaires saying 'make the wealthy rich again.
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.
We must tell the world that even though we elected a bigot, bigotry will not prevail.
People often call fighting racism being 'PC' when they don't want to confront their own prejudice
It's no longer time to take sides for or against race, rather sides against those who still do.
Perhaps finding out that we carry New World history in our genes will transcend racial checkboxes altogether and enable Latino-Americans to rethink what America is supposed to look like.
It's a scary world we live in when a person of color endorses a racist for president.
Racism is dead only to those who've closed their eyes and ears to the whole world around them.
Political correctness’ is a label the privileged often use to distract from their privilege and hate.
Sentiments that glorify humanity know no racial distinction.
People often call fighting discrimination being 'PC' because they don't want their own unearned privileges challenged.
At home they thought of white people as a vague but powerful entity--like the forces that control the weather, that capable of destruction, that hidden from view.
