The air has finally gotten to the place that we can breathe it together. — Septima Poinsette Clark Copy Share Image
“If origin defines race, then we are all Africans – we are all black.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Evangelicals come from all ethnic and racial backgrounds, but nearly 90 percent of Americans who call themselves evangelicals are white. — Christian Smith Copy Share Image
“Every old ruin in India becomes sooner or later a dwelling place of snakes, and the old summer-house was alive with cobras.” — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
“Pride is the problem. Everyone wants to be right so badly they overlook the "rights" of others.” — Carlos Wallace Copy Share Image
[Race relations in 2015 are] almost as bad as they have ever been in the history of the country. — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
Race should be seen in one way, and one way only: on your marks, get set, go! — Anthony Marais Copy Share Image
“Standing against discrimination for some while supporting discrimination against others hurts us all.” — DaShanne Stokes Copy Share Image
“We are just two people. Not that much separates us. Not nearly as much as I'd thought.” — Kathryn Stockett Copy Share Image
“Race is there. You're tire of hearing about it? Imagine how fucking exhausting it is living it.” — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
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… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
“I understand now that the only time black people don't feel guilty is when we've actually done something wrong, because that relieves… — Paul Beatty Copy Share Image
“Anyone intent on moral clarity might want to find another book and, in fact, might not want to go anywhere near the… — Timothy B. Tyson Copy Share Image
My family, friends and community members rarely spoke about race relations, or how people from different races have different experiences growing up… — Joe Thomas Copy Share Image
If you know anything about the issues in our country, you know we have a lot of deep-rooted anger and anxieties that… — Malcolm Jenkins Copy Share Image
As a result of that forgiveness, I will never criticize or attack any of your past actions or remarks concerning matters of… — James Carville Copy Share Image
Sabotage did not involve loss of life, and it offered the best hope for future race relations. Bitterness would be kept to… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
“The irony of American history is the tendency of good white Americanas to presume racial innocence. Ignorance of how we are shaped… — Tim Wise Copy Share Image
“Evangelicalism, as perhaps the strongest Protestant religious movement in the United States, relies heavily on marketing principles for its strength and growth,… — Christian Smith Copy Share Image
“He seemed to hasten the retreat of departing light by his very presence; the setting sun dipped sharply, as though fleeing before… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
The 1950s felt so safe and smug, the '60s so raw and raucous, the revolutions stacked one on top of another, in… — Nancy Gibbs Copy Share Image
School performance, public health, crime rates, clinical depression, tax compliance, philanthropy, race relations, community development, census returns, teen suicide, economic productivity, campaign… — Robert D. Putnam Copy Share Image
Barack Obama winning the election had an instant impact on everything - race relations, national self-esteem, tolerance. It also had an instant… — Peter Morgan Copy Share Image
Only men of moral and mental force, of a patriotic regard for the relationship of the two races, can be of real… — Fannie Barrier Williams Copy Share Image
... one of the blind spots of most Negroes is their failure to realize that small overtures from whites have a large… — Sarah-Patton Boyle Copy Share Image
Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
“But race in the United States is not a tidy matter. Only three of the submitted pieces explicitly referenced the future. Most… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
“I suggest that those who live in the past don't want a confrontation with the present. I believe that white Americans welcome… — Saul D. Alinsky Copy Share Image
“A cop on a motorcycle roared alongside, waved them to the curb. 'Goin' to a fire?' he demanded. He peered into the… — Ann Petry Copy Share Image
“It was clearly the Native American curse on the white man in action. After taking their land and converting everything that was… — Carl-John X Veraja Copy Share Image
“Jim said it made him all over trembly and feverish to be so close to freedom. Well, I can tell you it… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Because evangelicals view their primary task as evangelism and discipleship,1 they tend to avoid issues that hinder these activities. Thus, they are… — Christian Smith Copy Share Image
“Equality of condition, though it is certainly a basic requirement for justice, is nevertheless among the greatest and most uncertain ventures of… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
“Why did God set it up like this?” Rachel asked. “With them as masters and us as slaves?” “There is no God,… — Percival Everett Copy Share Image
Everything in American public life, when it comes to race relations, serves as a frame for a history of violence and degrading… — Amitava Kumar Copy Share Image
When Thurgood Marshall became a lawyer, race relations in the United States were particularly bad. — Constance Baker Motley Copy Share Image
“Jeb'd said it was harder for a pretty girl to find work; even white men liked flowers, whether red or pink or… — Shannon Celebi Copy Share Image