“I don't know which hurt more: his rejection, his punch, or my own elder siblings laughing at my pain.” — Dorothy Hampton Marcus Copy Share Image
Hip hop culture has done more for race relations in American than anything since Martin Luther King. And I really believe that. — Steve Stoute Copy Share Image
“Intermarriage is one of the most provocative words in the English language” — Clotye Murdock Larsson Copy Share Image
What I remember about race relations in the 1990s is that you showed your awareness by saying you didn't see race, that… — Celeste Ng Copy Share Image
In Stamps the segregation was so complete that most Black children didn't really, absolutely know what whites looked like. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I think that, ultimately, the only thing that affects race relations is fair treatment. — Ras Baraka Copy Share Image
“I see that ye are dogs. I go from you to my own people- if they be my own people.” — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
“I swear that white folks need to just shut the hell up sometimes. Y'all make it hard for everybody.” — Kiese Laymon Copy Share Image
“I understand now that the only time black people don't feel guilty is when we've actually done something wrong, because that relieves… — Paul Beatty Copy Share Image
“Anyone intent on moral clarity might want to find another book and, in fact, might not want to go anywhere near the… — Timothy B. Tyson Copy Share Image
As a result of that forgiveness, I will never criticize or attack any of your past actions or remarks concerning matters of… — James Carville Copy Share Image
Sabotage did not involve loss of life, and it offered the best hope for future race relations. Bitterness would be kept to… — Nelson Mandela 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
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
“The irony of American history is the tendency of good white Americanas to presume racial innocence. Ignorance of how we are shaped… — Tim Wise Copy Share Image
We are not race blind. Of course we still have racial tensions in this country. But the United States of America has… — Condoleezza Rice 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
“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
“Today even the attitude of the Southern whites toward the blacks is not, as so many assume, in all cases the same;… — W.E.B. Du Bois 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
“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
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
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
I think we need strength. I think we also need somebody that can be a cheerleader. He's been a great divider in… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
“But where Lincoln’s absent hand was felt most keenly was in race relations. Black codes were passed in state after state across… — Jay Winik Copy Share Image
“We have a collection of 800 jars of soil in our museum. We collect these soils from lynching sites. People who are… — Bryan Stevenson Copy Share Image
“You may have heard the talk of diversity, sensitivity training, and body cameras. These are all fine and applicable, but they understate… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
“My God, what do we want? What does any human being want? Take away an accident of pigmentation of a thin layer… — Shirley Chisholm 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
“Whitepeople believed that whatever the manners, under every dark skin was a jungle. Swift unnavigable waters, swinging screaming baboons, sleeping snakes, red… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
“Why did God set it up like this?” Rachel asked. “With them as masters and us as slaves?” “There is no God,… — Percival Everett Copy Share Image
“...After all, acknowledging unfairness then calls decent people forth to correct those injustices. And since most persons are at their core, decent… — Tim Wise 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
“To those supremacist racists I ask what color will be their bodies when they turn to dust.” — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
“Quit bothering with angels, I say. They’re no good for Indians. Remember what happened last time some white god came floating across… — Natalie Díaz Copy Share Image
Mike Brown wasn't about race relations, nor Trayvon Martin or even Hurricane Katrina for that matter. It's about trust. — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
I have a dream that one day little black boys and girls will be holding hands with little white boys and girls. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
People are very comfortable when race relations get looked at retrospectively. Slavery, the civil rights movement, etc. — Paul Beatty Copy Share Image
The history of race relations in America is very different than something like the Holocaust. — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
“I was going to look like one of the sweet little white girls who were everybody's dream of what was right with… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
