Race Relations Quotes

Race Relations Quote of the day

One who is a slaveholder at heart never recognizes a human being in a slave.

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.

It's a weird scene. You win a few baseball games and all of a sudden you're surrounded by reporters and TV men with cameras asking you about Vietnam and race relations.

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

It's not easy to be a martyr in the field of race relations.

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.

People are very comfortable when race relations get looked at retrospectively. Slavery, the civil rights movement, etc.

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

Hip hop culture has done more for race relations in American than anything since Martin Luther King. And I really believe that.

In Stamps the segregation was so complete that most Black children didn't really, absolutely know what whites looked like.

When Thurgood Marshall became a lawyer, race relations in the United States were particularly bad.

I think that, ultimately, the only thing that affects race relations is fair treatment.

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

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

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.

Historically - when you look at how America has evolved, typically we make progress on race relations in fits and starts. We make some progress, and then there's maybe some slippage.

I am absolutely convinced that race relations on the whole are actually better now than they were 20 years [ago].

The country has come a long way in race relations, but the pendulum swings so far back. Everyone wants to be so sensitive.

[Race relations in 2015 are] almost as bad as they have ever been in the history of the country.

If you care to define the South as a poor, rural region with lousy race relations, that South survives only in geographical shreds and patches and most Southerners don't live there any more.

I think it's sinful to give the audience material it knows already, whether the material is about race relations or the car culture or the depiction and placement of a candy bar.

In many people's many people's minds this is the sole reason Barack Obama was elected. He was elected to fix race relations.

I think that the opportunity to improve race relations in the United States has been put off temporarily.

I think if we continue to create jobs at levels that I'm creating jobs, I think that's going to have a tremendous impact - positive impact - on race relations.

There is nothing like race, is there?

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.

white is not always light and black is not always dark.

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

The meetings and marches and vigils are cool, but if the enemy isn't present, you're just talking slick to a can of oil.

We want to remember that America is at its best when it’s struggling to live up to its stated ideals.

To be black in America is a wild and endless assault on the senses. You can spend every day fighting off your spiritual and intellectual extinction.

When the Lakota chief Red Cloud finally quit fighting the intruders, he reportedly told a white delegation, "We didn't need all this land, and neither did you.

I've always looked at America like a foster mother doing it only for the check. At any minute, I just knew she'd be ready to give up on me.

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

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

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

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

If the idea of loving those whom you have been taught to recognize as your enemies is too overwhelming, consider more deeply the observation that we are all much more alike than we are unalike.

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.

The past is of value only as it aids in understanding the present

What good's a black face if it means I'm just someone else's property? Why give me these arms and legs just to carry someone else's load, not my own?

We are just two people. Not that much separates us. Not nearly as much as I'd thought.

Alone, we are great, but together, we are better.

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

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.

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.

In the biological sense, race does not exist.

If origin defines race, then we are all Africans – we are all black.

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.