Racial Quotes · Page 2

Racial hysteria has been a part of many winning campaigns in our country. But it's rarely the only part.

— Jamelle Bouie

A people that does not protect its racial purity will perish!

— Julius Streicher

The difference with Cleveland is that the racial tension was not a casual taste of it. It was outlandish.

— Terrence Howard

I loved the fact that Obama is multi-racial. I thought that was terrific, as my wife is the same racial make-up.

— Clint Eastwood

“To really change the world, we have to help people change the way they see things.”

— Suzy Kassem

I think that white people are not seen as people with racial histories.

— Amber Hollibaugh

It's very important for me to have dialogues across racial lines.

— Lynn Nottage

It would be difficult, in this day and age, to fund art that made racial slurs.

— Jane Alexander

I feel that racial profiling may be a very complicated and long-standing problem. It will take a long time even to make…

— Wen Ho Lee

When you allow racial disparity and institutional inequity to affect one part of the country, eventually it's coming back to get everyone.

— Tim Wise

“Every period of racial progress in this country is followed by a period of retrenchment. That’s what the election was about. It’s…

— Hillary Rodham Clinton

We have to deconstruct the idea of racial superiority. We have had it for hundreds of years so it is not going…

— John Barnes

In commendably seeking to protect freedom of speech, we must not lower our defences against the evil of racial and religious intolerance.

— Barry O'Farrell

The stance I took was there is no room for racial bias anywhere in sports. I believe that was basically all I…

— Barry Larkin

I don't want to, in any way, characterize a race or a people or get accused of racial profiling, but the Irish,…

— Stephen Lang

They came down on us because we had a grass-roots, real people's revolution, complete with the programs, complete with the unity, complete…

— Bobby Seale

'The Martin Show,' the 'Jamie Foxx show,' 'Living Single,' 'The Wayans Brothers,' 'Hanging with Mr. Cooper...' Some of these shows were good,…

— John Ridley

It's hard enough to be a middle-school kid, because you're dealing with so many facets of your identity - you're changing socially,…

— Rick Riordan

Being asked to describe what 'post-racial' means is a bit like being asked to describe a leprechaun, cold fusion or unicorns: we…

— Tim Wise

The criminal-justice system is, obviously, the sole source of racial tension in this country [USA] or the key institution to resolving the…

— Barack Obama

“... racial profiling. We all do it. If you cross the street to avoid a gang of black teens, you’re racial profiling;…

— Harlan Coben

'Crash' is a movie about the racial tension that still exists in America. A lot of us pretend that we don't have…

— Larenz Tate

When judging a horoscope, it is of prime importance that we take into consideration the social and racial standing of the individual,…

— Max Heindel

I can't explain exactly why it lives within me for so long and passionately. But race matters to me; racial equality matters…

— Sue Monk Kidd

Even after facing jail, Martin Luther King, Jr. courageously and boldly spoke out against racial inequality.

— Yvette Clarke

I'm the face of post racial America, deal with it Cate Blanchett.

— Tracy Morgan

This is why I hate white people. You guys try to turn everything into a racial issue.

— Charles Barkley

The goal is to meet the challenge of racial interbreeding...

— Nicolas Sarkozy

A man with a long history of racial discrimination should never run our government.

— Hillary Clinton

As racial, economic and national groups, they take for themselves, whatever their power can command.

— Reinhold Niebuhr

Everyone's voice should be heard when it comes to racial barriers.

— Lilly Singh

Racial distinctions should not be rejected; they should be embraced.

— Tony Evans

Our country has had a painful, racial history, and there are many issues that bear discussing.

— Jemele Hill

The cyclical rebirth of caste in America is a recurring racial nightmare.

— Michelle Alexander

Affirmative action was always racial justice on the cheap.

— Joe Klein

“Discrimination is not just racial now. It’s also about the kind of body parts you have.”

— Yudhanjaya Wijeratne

There has been, and there will continue to be, vigorous discussions about race in America. I worry that little will come of…

— Roxane Gay

Most damage that others do us is out of fear, humiliation and pain. Those feelings occur in all of us, not just…

— Alice Walker

I think "post-racial" is a dangerous trap. You can fall into complacency and give your complicity a much more dangerous character.

— Allan Boesak

“…I wondered if there had been a more corroding and devastating attack upon the personalities of men than the idea of racial…

— Richard Wright