We understand 'Roots,' and that experience was mind-boggling, and it changed the way society viewed race relations. It was incredibly important. With… — Esai Morales Copy Share Image
In high school, I discovered myself. I was interested in race relations and the legal profession. I read about Lincoln and that… — Constance Baker Motley Copy Share Image
“The question is really a kind of apathy and ignorance, which is the price we pay for segregation. That’s what segregation means.… — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
“If the idea of loving those whom you have been taught to recognize as your enemies is too overwhelming, consider more deeply… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
We definitely experience racism in England and different levels of oppression as well. Anywhere affected by colonialism there's certain kinds of race… — Jodie Turner-Smith Copy Share Image
Is there nothing the prodigiously talented Ann Patchett can't do? She's channeled the world of opera, Boston politics, magic, unwed motherhood, and… — Caroline Leavitt Copy Share Image
The North has no interest in the particular Negro, but talks of justice for the whole. The South has not interest, and… — Zora Neale Hurston Copy Share Image
I think it's sinful to give the audience material it knows already, whether the material is about race relations or the car… — Manny Farber Copy Share Image
in race relations, the single gesture and the single individual are more often than not doomed to failure. Only the group and… — Margaret Halsey Copy Share Image
“after the war, historian Marilyn Young warned: The U.S. can destroy Iraq’s highways, but not build its own; create the conditions for… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
“Evangelicals usually fail to challenge the system not just out of concern for evangelism, but also because they support the American system… — Christian Smith Copy Share Image
“If I knew anything about being black in America it was that nothing was guaranteed, you couldn't count on a thing, and… — Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah Copy Share Image
“Things have come a long way in Mississippi. That’s the usual shorthand. Perhaps nowhere else in America has made more progress in… — Richard Grant Copy Share Image
Though President Obama was at his smooth and polished best the other night, two aspects of his worldview came into sharper relief… — Mona Charen Copy Share Image
“Part of the irony of religion’s role is that in strengthening micro bonds between individuals, religion contributes to within-group homogeneity, heightens isolation… — Christian Smith Copy Share Image
I have known no experience more distressing than the discovery that Negroes didn't love me. Unutterable loneliness claimed me. I felt without… — Sarah-Patton Boyle Copy Share Image
“How's that training coming along, Griff? Good old Max says you're a natural." Turner frowned. Any time a white man asked you… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
We have many companies, I say pouring back into America. I think that's going to have a huge, positive impact on race… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
“In the midst of a national reckoning on race relations in America something extraordinary is happening. We are building a winning edge against… — Germany Kent Copy Share Image
So, to say Barack Obama is progress is saying that he's the first black person that is qualified to be president. That's… — Chris Rock Copy Share Image
“But no sooner had he walked to the city wall than the monkeys pulled him back, telling him that he did not… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
Hip-hop has done more for race relations than most cultural icons; and I say save Martin Luther King, because his 'I Have… — Jay-Z Copy Share Image
“At home they thought of white people as a vague but powerful entity--like the forces that control the weather, that capable of… — Ayana Mathis Copy Share Image
“From the isolated, individualistic perspective of most white evangelicals and many other Americans, there really is no race problem other than bad… — Christian Smith Copy Share Image
Christopher Columbus introduced two phenomena that revolutionized race relations and transformed the modern world: the taking of land, wealth, and labor from… — James W. Loewen Copy Share Image
“No one is an outside observer of nature, We're defined by our environment and our interaction with that environment -- by our… — Beau Lotto Copy Share Image
If you care to define the South as a poor, rural region with lousy race relations, that South survives only in geographical… — John Shelton Reed Copy Share Image
“My daughter is black and she has to know what it is like to be black. My daughter should know you, Aiken,… — Allan Dare Pearce Copy Share Image
“There is the familiar figure of Orosius, defending the barbarians with the argument that when the Roman empire was founded it was… — Eileen Power Copy Share Image
“By the time she a year old Mae Mobley following me around everwhere I go….Miss Leefolt, she’d narrow up her eyes at… — Kathryn Stockett Copy Share Image
“Does anyone in this room have it?" "No, Chris, no one here has it." "How do you know?" "Because the mark was… — Chris Crutcher Copy Share Image
“Under the white population of the United States of America only the reactionary classes oppress the black population. Under no circumstance can… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
“The instinct to tell our children that they are better than someone else’s children, based on nothing more than the color of… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
“Call up the ever-pure, the effulgent and the ever-radiant character of true humanism in yourself and in others, and no racism shall… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“In the South, we knew our adversary would stop at nothing to silence our activism. We knew we could never match his… — John Lewis Copy Share Image
There was never a promise that race relations in America would be entirely resolved during my presidency or anybody's presidency. I mean,… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“Since the white man's personality is greatly distorted by segregation, and his soul is greatly scarred, he needs the love of the… — Martin Luther King Jr Copy Share Image
“When he asked if she was okay, her eyes welled with tears and she said, “Like I’m always telling my brothers, if… — Rebecca Skloot Copy Share Image
No doubt many people working in race relations sincerely want to make things better. But by constantly drawing attention to race and… — Munira Mirza Copy Share Image
“White man trying to kill you slow every day, and sometimes trying to kill you fast. Why make it easy for him?… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
