Race Quotes
We elected a man who knows how to build walls when we needed someone who knows how to build bridges.
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.
Only God can break through the variegated walls of skin to capture the one and only hue of the heart. One Blood.
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.
Remember no matter how fast you run, you can't be the winner if you don't finish. As someone said, to be the first to finish, you must finish first! Go, take the strike!
...being Latino means being from everywhere, and that is exactly what America is supposed to be about.
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.
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.
There are no racists in America, or at least none that the people who need to be white know personally.
I am still hoping to see an America that would gradually move beyond race, only in times when old ideas would no longer lives and the new will grow with the young generation.
In any society built on institutionalized racism, race-mixing doesn't merely challenge the system as unjust, it reveals the system as unsustainable and incoherent.
If we do not know how to meaningfully talk about racism, our actions will move in misleading directions.
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.
Race determines variables that yield results undesirable to one sector, while rendering a noticeable favor to others.
In the midst of combat, we learned a great deal about mankind and its many different races, creeds and beliefs.
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.
I tried to get away from him, to get to that door, but instead I backed up against the wall and was stuck there in that white, white room.
Run the race of life at your own pace.
Ask anyone concerned with race to fast, and take note of the response you receive.
The media will mess your way of thinking up, don't take they word for nothing do your on research.
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.
No human race is superior no religious faith is inferior. All collective judgments are wrong. Only racists make them.
ONE BUT MANYOne God, many faces.One family, many races.One truth, many paths.One heart, many complexions.One light, many reflections.One world, many imperfections.ONE.We are all one, But many.
And here's to the blues, the real blues— where there's a hint of hope in every cry of desperation.
Be prepared to be on the race to fulfill and to achieve fulfillment.
In united families, they might sleep with half filled stomach but no one sleeps with empty stomach.
You can take the Indian out of the family, but you cannot take the family out of the Indian.
In your name, the family name is at last because it's the family name that lasts.
Human race don't go extinct but only if we treat each other as a human regardless of gender, color, class, and ethnicity.
Intolerance breeds hatred. Hatred creates divisions. Divisions destroy common grounds.
Tough topics are only tough for those who don't want to approach conversation, who don't like problematizing the status quo and nuancing the narrative.
To prevent your time from just melting into vanity, you must race against time and stand in the way of time so you could convert it to tangible products.
Your life is such that you are running a race against a diminishing life.
When you are able to create values in yourself or in others then you have won the race.
The good thing about winning the race against time is that even though your time is diminishing you always have a product to show for it.
Most people end their race here on earth with no products to show for all their time they spent on earth.
