The air has finally gotten to the place that we can breathe it together. — Septima Poinsette Clark 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
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
“Race is there. You're tire of hearing about it? Imagine how fucking exhausting it is living it.” — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
“Don't Tase Me Bro! If I'm a cop, and I'm a brotha, and they let me have a taser? Sorry bro, I'm… — Larry Wilmore 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
“J.W. and Roy didn’t just snatch the childhood away from Emmett; they stole it from every single black child in Mississippi.” — Bernice McFadden 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
“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
“Whatever he believed, he believed. It didn’t matter to him whether it was really true or not. He just changed the truth… — James McBride Copy Share Image
“I had seen a photograph of Emmett Till's body just after it was pulled from the river. I had seen photographs of… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
“The tension between people is palpable, and the ideal of what it means to be and look American becomes a preoccupation to… — Raquel Cepeda Copy Share Image
Being politically correct does not change the existence of poor race relations; it just gives us an acceptable mask to hide behind… — Phaedra Parks Copy Share Image
“I don't give a damn if there's any hope for them or not. But I know that I am not about to… — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
For so long, black conservatives have not been able to have a voice; people who have bi-racial children, people in bi-racial relationships,… — Candace Owens Copy Share Image
“I'm too old to be ignorant as I am." --Twelve-year-old Gabriella to the general, who does not want her to know about… — Elle Thornton Copy Share Image
“When the Lakota chief Red Cloud finally quit fighting the intruders, he reportedly told a white delegation, "We didn't need all this… — Scott Zesch Copy Share Image
I think there's a lot of shame in American race relations. There's a lot of suppressed guilt that lashes itself out still.… — Danny Strong 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
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
“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
“Race relations never improve in war time; they always worsen. And it is when the boys come home the Ku Klux Klans… — H.L. Mencken 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
“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
“Our Negro problem, therefore, is not of the Negro's making. No group in our population is less responsible for its existence. But… — Isabel Wilkerson Copy Share Image
“Yet, if the American Negro has arrived at his identity by virtue of the absoluteness of his estrangement from his past, American… — James Baldwin 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
“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
“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
“In America the magazines in which one can frequently publish stories or poems about Negroes are very few, and most of these… — Langston Hughes 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
“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
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