I think we are progressing with race relations but assumptions hold us back. — Rachel House Copy Share Image
“An institution rooted in slavery cannot be the voice of our people.” — DaShanne Stokes 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
“You're not a bad man or a stupid man, what you are is a white man.” — Barbra-Lee Stephen Copy Share Image
“Intermarriage is one of the most provocative words in the English language” — Clotye Murdock Larsson Copy Share Image
The country has come a long way in race relations, but the pendulum swings so far back. Everyone wants to be so… — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
“A brave heart and a courteous tongue, said he. They shall carry thee far through the jungle, Manling.” — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
“It speaks volumes when people who are discriminated against go on to discriminate against others.” — DaShanne Stokes Copy Share Image
I think that the opportunity to improve race relations in the United States has been put off temporarily. — Stephen Ambrose Copy Share Image
“We never asked for racism or white supremacy but rather Whites admit that we have always been another shade of humanity.” — Johnnie Dent Jr 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
“She didn't tell him white folks couldn't love the same as coloreds. She couldn't love the same neither though, cuz more than… — Shannon Celebi 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
My theory is this: Rather than having commentaries from the cheap seats, get involved and see what you can do. What can… — Valerie Jarrett Copy Share Image
Here's the thing. When we talk about race relations in America or racial progress, it's all nonsense. There are no race relations.… — Chris Rock Copy Share Image
“Perhaps finding out that we carry New World history in our genes will transcend racial checkboxes altogether and enable Latino-Americans to rethink… — Raquel Cepeda Copy Share Image
“Now, Benny was no eejit. He wasn't expecting the Tunisian nationals to be Irish. What he did expect was darkish people with… — Eoin Colfer Copy Share Image
“In the context of the Negro problem neither whites nor blacks, for excellent reasons of their own, have the faintest desire to… — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
“No significant American group hates like the left does. If you differ with them — from global warming, to race relations, to… — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
“Like so much of cool hunting, Hilfiger's marketing journey feeds off the alienation at the heart of America's race relations: selling white… — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
“I shake my head at my friend. “Not only is they lines, but you know good as I do where them lines… — Kathryn Stockett Copy Share Image
“The hardhearted person never sees people as a people, but rather as mere objects or as impersonal cogs in an ever-turning wheel.… — Martin Luther King Jr Copy Share Image
“In the month of his inauguration, 63 percent of African Americans held a favorable view of race relations in America. By July… — Jack Cashill Copy Share Image
There is only one race on this planet and that is the human race. There are many ethnic families and I believe… — Jordan Blake Michiels Copy Share Image
“It is not enough for the Negroes to declare that color-prejudice is the sole cause of their social condition, nor for the… — W.E.B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
A key text for me is James Baldwin's essays. And, in particular, his essay Stranger in the Village. It's a text that… — Glenn Ligon 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
“I mean, we’re talking about chocolate, for chrissake! Chocolate’s wonderful! Everyone loves it! Look at me, I’m part German! That makes me… — Jon Sindell 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
“Singapore was vulnerable to the kind of ethnic pulls evident in the 1960s. The problem with this strong regulatory emphasis, however, is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“And she got the feeling that Boots Smith's relationship to this swiftly moving car was no ordinary one. He wasn't just a… — Ann Petry Copy Share Image
“Love is not coercion, and the state is only an agent of coercion. It has no other function and can work no… — Joel McDurmon Copy Share Image
“One strain of African American thought holds that it is a violent black recklessness—the black gangster, the black rioter—that strikes the ultimate… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
“The things white folks put people through--my god, cruel in ways I just can't even reconcile. Should be ashamed for a thousand… — Cebo Campbell 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
“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
