Race Relations In America Quotes

#1. There was never a promise that race relations in America would be entirely resolved during my presidency or anybody's presidency. I mean, this has been a running thread - and - and fault line in American life and American politics since its founding.

Barack Obama

#2. In the last few years, race relations in America have entered upon a period of intensified craziness wherein fear of being called a racist has so thoroughly overwhelmed fear of being a racist that we are in danger of losing sight of the distinction.

Florence King

#3. Here's the thing. When we talk about race relations in America or racial progress, it's all nonsense. There are no race relations. White people were crazy. Now they're not as crazy. To say that black people have made progress would be to say they deserve what happened to them before.

Anonymous

#4. Yes, 'Black Girl/White Girl' might be described as a 'coming-of-age' novel, at least for the survivor Genna. It is also intended as a comment on race relations in America more generally: we are 'roommates' with one another, but how well do we know one another?

Joyce Carol Oates

#5. The history of race relations in America is very different than something like the Holocaust.

Jamaica Kincaid

#6. When a rainbow spreads across the sky it is reminding the world that beauty comes in all colors.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#7. We are not race blind. Of course we still have racial tensions in this country. But the United States of America has made enormous progress in race relations, and it is still the best place on Earth to be a minority.

Condoleezza Rice

#8. My heart isn't big enough to care for the oppressors.

Darnell Lamont Walker

#9. Does anyone in this room have it?"
"No, Chris, no one here has it."
"How do you know?"
"Because the mark was dark skin. Negroes are the descendants of Cain."
I didn't have my civil-rights sensibilities yet, but I was starting to get a bad feeling about God ...

Chris Crutcher

#10. I believe in terms of the work that I do, in establishing dialogue about race relations in Latin America, steps on one of the most relevant themes today.

Bocafloja

#11. Calling for an end to hate shouldn't be treated as a punishable offense.

DaShanne Stokes

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

Ta-Nehisi Coates

#13. Racism hurts everyone, including racists themselves.

DaShanne Stokes

#14. 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.

Jonathan R. Miller

#15. Racism is pure ignorance. We are part of the same race. The human race

Bangambiki Habyarimana

#16. I remember reading article about the woman in that Oakland neighborhood who lost all her children to violence. I wondered why'd she keep living there after the first one was killed. Didn't she care about the others?
Today, I zoomed out and wondered why I'm still in America.

Darnell Lamont Walker

#17. 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.

Chuck D

#18. When you're marginalized, there are no "them people," if we're all on the outskirts of the same margin.

Darnell Lamont Walker

#19. 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.

Aberjhani

#20. None of us get to choose our race but we all get to choose how we overcome its hurtles. Whether we jump or stumble...what matters most is that we take each moment in stride. Compassion, love, forgiveness and empathy will always win the human race.

Jason Versey

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

Carlos Wallace

#22. This is the basis, and I am not being tried for whether I am a Communist, I am being tried for fighting for the right of my people, who are still second-class citizens in this United States of America

Paul Robeson

#23. 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.

Raquel Cepeda

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

Katelyne Parker

#25. The only thing white about me is the skin I'm wearing.

Randolph Randy Camp

#26. Crystal, do you like being a white girl?

Randolph Randy Camp

#27. Word: I'm not saying the races don't have a common human bond. I'm just saying that bond isn't about compassion and equality and tolerance. What we all share together is the drive to get what's ours and keep it for as long as we can.

Snoop Dogg

#28. You were born into a society which spelled out with brutal clarity, and in as many ways as possible, that you were a worthless human being. You were not expected to aspire to excellence: you were expected to make peace with mediocrity.

James Baldwin

#29. The irony of American history is the tendency of good white Americanas to presume racial innocence. 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.

Tim Wise

#30. J.W. and Roy didn't just snatch the childhood away from Emmett; they stole it from every single black child in Mississippi.

Bernice L. McFadden

#31. Whites saying 'make America white again' is like millionaires saying 'make the wealthy rich again.

DaShanne Stokes

#32. Without the presence of black people in America, European-Americans would not be "white"
they would be Irish, Italians, Poles, Welsh, and other engaged in class, ethnic, and gender struggles over resources and identity. (p. 107-108)

Cornel West

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

Brian Spellman