Race relations Quotes

“There's "good" in all things. You just have to find it.”

— Carlos Wallace

It's not easy to be a martyr in the field of race relations.

— Jackie Robinson

“white is not always light and black is not always dark.”

— Habeeb Akande

“Discrimination is discrimination, even when people claim it's 'tradition.”

— DaShanne Stokes

“We all take our own journey on race.”

— Mitch Landrieu

“An institution rooted in slavery cannot be the voice of our people.”

— DaShanne Stokes

“If origin defines race, then we are all Africans – we are all black.”

— Abhijit Naskar

“In the biological sense, race does not exist.”

— Abhijit Naskar

We need a more substantive conversation around race relations and the way people of color are treated.

— Megan Rapinoe

I am absolutely convinced that race relations on the whole are actually better now than they were 20 years [ago].

— Barack Obama

“You are growing into consciousness, and my wish for you is that you feel no need to constrict yourself to make other…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

One who is a slaveholder at heart never recognizes a human being in a slave.

— Angelina Grimke

“You ever think about the noose?' 'I been thinking about the noose since I was born.”

— Stacey Lee

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

“Standing against discrimination for some while supporting discrimination against others hurts us all.”

— DaShanne Stokes

“We are just two people. Not that much separates us. Not nearly as much as I'd thought.”

— Kathryn Stockett

... in 1950 a very large slice of the white South stood at the crossroads in its attitude toward its colored citizens…

— Sarah-Patton Boyle

I believe in terms of the work that I do, in establishing dialogue about race relations in Latin America, steps on one…

— Bocafloja

“It was around this time that I started thinking about how skin color defined class. The cowboy movies that fueled the goodness…

— Luis Quiros

“Accent is the last great redoubt of prejudice. The race relations industry, that inquisition of fairness and sensitivity, doesn't protect against discrimination…

— A.A. Gill

“There are no superior or inferior races. No one is intrinsically inferior or superior. All have the same value as creatures of…

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

“Individual cultures and ideologies have their appropriate uses but none of them erase or replace the universal experiences, like love and weeping…

— Aberjhani

Race relations can be an appropriate issue... but only if you want to craft solutions, and not catalogue complaints. If we use…

— David Dinkins

The great drama at the core of American race relations is always the same: Can black Americans ever be truly equal -…

— Shelby Steele

Barack Obama winning the election had an instant impact on everything - race relations, national self-esteem, tolerance. It also had an instant…

— Peter Morgan

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

... one of the blind spots of most Negroes is their failure to realize that small overtures from whites have a large…

— Sarah-Patton Boyle

“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

Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded…

— Thomas Sowell

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

The prospect of Hillary Clinton not winning the presidency opens up a vast dark hole, an unknown, beyond which it is impossible…

— Clarence Major

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

“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

“Equality of condition, though it is certainly a basic requirement for justice, is nevertheless among the greatest and most uncertain ventures of…

— Hannah Arendt

“A cop on a motorcycle roared alongside, waved them to the curb. 'Goin' to a fire?' he demanded. He peered into the…

— Ann Petry

“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

“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

“Jim said it made him all over trembly and feverish to be so close to freedom. Well, I can tell you it…

— Mark Twain

“Well, of course," Camilo said, and grinned back at JohnRolandJoseph and his long line of bought and paid for ancestors, as friendly…

— Ann Petry

“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