Racism In America Quotes
Racism In America Quote of the day
I have nothing to do with racism in America; it was here when I got here.
Telling me that I’m obsessed with talking about racism in America is like telling me I’m obsessed with swimming when I’m drowning.
It’s no disgrace to be black, but it’s often very inconvenient.
Race doesn't really exist for you because it has never been a barrier. Black folks don't have that choice.
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.
For many years, I believed racism in America was dead and that opportunity existed for all. My beliefs were shaken when the Rodney King officers were acquitted.
There is a bunch of racism in America, and sadly, most of it's on the left side of the aisle.
Trayvon Martin, at the most, seems only to have been guilty of being himself.
Racism in America absolutely exists - it is an issue. We need to fix it. We're a great country - probably the greatest country but we could be a hell of a lot greater.
...all the fears with which I had grown up, and which were now a part of me and controlled my vision of the world, rose up like a wall between the world and me...
If I hadn't trained Lula Ann properly she wouldn't have known to always cross the street and avoid white boys.
If we do not know how to meaningfully talk about racism, our actions will move in misleading directions.
Centuries-old wounds are still raw because they never healed right in the first place. Here is the essential truth. We are better together than we are apart.
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.
Before the constitution can protect the people it must first protect the person.
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.
Segmentation was wrong when it was forced by white people, and I believe it is still wrong when it is requested by black people.
It's hard to imagine hate that I am facing from allover the world yet I am not alone with mistakes.
They walked off down the hall in the direction of a sign that said Colored Waiting Room. Billie guessed white folks didn't have to wait.
This world that we live in would be perfect if there were less prejudice and people who think they are better than others.
House rule number nine. No roach shall drink or eat out of the good cups in the kitchen. The plastic cups are in the pantry.
Maybe he wouldn't end up the kind of man who needed to use his body for work. Maybe he'd be a new kind of black man altogether, one who got to use his mind.
Divided we are as people but if we stand together and fight we as a race will unite.
It's no longer time to take sides for or against race, rather sides against those who still do.
In the midst of combat, we learned a great deal about mankind and its many different races, creeds and beliefs.
I have no God to hold me up. And I believe that when they shatter the body they shatter everything, and I knew that all of us—Christians, Muslims, atheists—lived in this fear of this truth.
Unfortunately there is no vaccination to protect the soul from the menacing disease of social ignorance manifested by character-void homosapiens.
Fantasy like thought that no man could rainJust let her reignRun wild with her unafraidOf any rain stormsThey only wash the mud away and make wayFor double rainbows and sunny days
...I fell asleep and had a dream that a king was liquidated by a group of kind faces...
There are turning points in everyone's life when we have to fight, even if we have to do it by ourselves and in public.
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.
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.
Saying something is 'politically correct' is often a way of dismissing the voices of the oppressed.
The textbook in question in the infamous Scope's Monkey Trial was partially written by the Harvard educated white supremacist, Charles B. Davenport.
When a political opponent resorts to the racist card, it's a sure sign of moral bankruptcy: there's no decent argument left in the armoury.
Self Hate: The deadliest 'dis-ease' experienced by wounded souls.
Whites saying 'make America white again' is like millionaires saying 'make the wealthy rich again.
People often call fighting discrimination being 'PC' because they don't want their own unearned privileges challenged.
Political correctness’ is a label the privileged often use to distract from their privilege and hate.
It's a scary world we live in when a person of color endorses a racist for president.