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
The changes in thinking about same-sex marriage have come slowly at first and then in rapid course. If such change is possible… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“However, in this city (San Francisco) that prides itself in being so progressive, it feels like we need to go back and… — Crystal Sykes Copy Share Image
The growth of race relations management, diversity training and 'promoting good relations' has come at a cost. We are more sensitized to… — Munira Mirza Copy Share Image
A white person listens to my act and he laughs and he thinks, 'Yeah, that's the way I see it too.' Okay.… — Bill Cosby Copy Share Image
The share of Americans who say race relations are bad in this country is the highest it's been in decades, much of… — Lester Holt Copy Share Image
In the last few years, race relations in America have entered upon a period of intensified craziness wherein fear of being called… — Florence King Copy Share Image
“Discrimination is discrimination, even when people claim it's 'tradition.” — DaShanne Stokes Copy Share Image
“We of the jungle have no dealings with them. We do not drink where the monkeys drink; we do not go where… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
The reason we life black people isn't because they're black. We like them because they're not as grey as we are. — John Cage Copy Share Image
“To those supremacist racists I ask what color will be their bodies when they turn to dust.” — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
“sick of it whatever it's called sick of the names I dedicate every pore to what's here” — Ikkyu Copy Share Image
“Political correctness’ is a label the privileged often use to distract from their privilege and hate.” — DaShanne Stokes Copy Share Image
“It is character that should be the sole measure of judgement in the society of thinking humanity, and nothing short of that… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“The defeat that had frightened her in the faces of black men was the defeat of black forever defined by white.” — Alice Walker 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
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
The great drama at the core of American race relations is always the same: Can black Americans ever be truly equal -… — Shelby Steele Copy Share Image
“There are no superior or inferior races. No one is intrinsically inferior or superior. All have the same value as creatures of… — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
... in 1950 a very large slice of the white South stood at the crossroads in its attitude toward its colored citizens… — Sarah-Patton Boyle Copy Share Image
“Not even God who made us all can kill everybody at once. He kills people one by one, and the more he… — Jorge Amado Copy Share Image
“The United States has poured more moral energy into improving race relations than into anything else in its history. And yet, in… — Jared Taylor Copy Share Image
Once in a while, God sends a good white person my way, even to this day. I think it's God's way of… — Annie Elizabeth Delany Copy Share Image
When I was trained as a journalist, as a race-relations reporter in Nashville covering the end of the civil-rights movement, we were… — Lawrence Wright 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
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
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
In Sumter and other counties [in South Carolina] the whites are resorting to intimidation and violence to prevent the colored people from… — Rutherford B. Hayes Copy Share Image
“Congress also did little to deal with poverty, education, or mounting urban problems. It seemed especially deaf to what was soon to… — James T. Patterson Copy Share Image
Strictly speaking, one cannot legislate love, but what one can do is legislate fairness and justice. If legislation does not prohibit our… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
If you are going to abolish slavery, that opens up all these other questions: what system of labor is going to replace… — Eric Foner Copy Share Image
“Well, of course," Camilo said, and grinned back at JohnRolandJoseph and his long line of bought and paid for ancestors, as friendly… — Ann Petry 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
“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
“There is no reason for you to try to become like white people and there is no basis whatever for their impertinent… — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
“The relation between the white and black races in Africa in many ways resembles the relation between the two sexes. If the… — Karen Blixen Copy Share Image
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