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Racism Quotes by Barack Obama

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The criminal‑justice system is called out as a key source of racial tension and a place to close the opportunity gap. Several quotes stress the goal of a country not divided by race and warn that ignoring the issue now repeats past mistakes. They also suggest measuring progress by how the majority reacts, not by the absence of incidents.

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We will finish the race.

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Our goal is to have a country that's not divided by race.

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Race remains a potent and often divisive force in our society.

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We need to eradicate the slander that says a black youth with a book is acting white.

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Nobody cares how tough your upbringing was. Nobody cares if you suffered some discrimination.

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I reject discrimination against Muslim Americans - who are just as patriotic as we are.

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No discrimination, that's what we're about as a country.

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

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I would love to see an America where race is understood in the same way that the ethnic diversity of the white…

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The interesting thing about the African-American experience in this country is that we are sort of a mongrel of people. I mean…

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The point I was making was not that Grandmother harbors any racial animosity. She doesn't. But she is a typical white person...

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The way we have to measure progress is not, "Is there ever going to be an incident of racism in the country?"…

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Politics, differences of religion or race, all that fades away when we are confronted with the awesome power of nature, and we're…

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Historically - when you look at how America has evolved, typically we make progress on race relations in fits and starts. We…

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My identity might begin with the fact of my race, but it didn't, couldn't end there. At least that's what I would…

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In too many communities, too many young men of color are left behind and seen only as objects of fear. Through initiatives…

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There are values that transcend race or culture, that move us forward, and there's an obligation for all of us individually as…

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As I got older, then my particular ambitions started cohering around creating a world in which people of different races or backgrounds…

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When you're out of work and you can't buy a home or you've lost your home and you're worried about paying your…

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I actually believe that some residue of discrimination would lessen, because it's my view that there is a certain percentage of the…

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

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If we got there and we looked up and we said, "You know what? Black folks are still doing a little bit…

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We have to recognize we've got some big problems on race, just like we got still big problems on crime, just like…

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Because of the Civil Rights movement, new doors of opportunity and education swung open for everybody ... Not just for blacks and…

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I think one of the tragedies of the civil rights movement was because the civil rights movement became so court-focused, I think…

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Our goal is to have a country that's not divided by race. And my impression, as I travel around the country, is…

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What used to be racial segregation now mirrors itself in class segregation, this great sorting (has) taken place. It creates its own…

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“We’re never so outraged as when a cabbie drives past us or the woman in the elevator clutches her purse, not so…

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Reinvigorating the Civil Rights Division of the Justice Department, making sure that in our Department of Education, where we see evidence of…

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Later, I would realize that the position of most black students in predominantly white colleges was already too tenuous, our identities too…

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We forget now, but during his life, Dr. King wasn't always considered a unifying figure. Even after rising to prominence, even after…

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The United States, we know what happens when we start dividing ourselves along lines of race or religion or ethnicity.

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I always tell young people in particular: Do not say that nothing's changed when it comes to race in America, unless you…

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The emotions between the races could never be pure; even love was tarnished by the desire to find in the other some…

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The same would be true for something like Social Security, where historically, if you just read the law and the fact that…

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The amount of interaction, the amount of understanding that exists in your generation among people of different races and different creeds and…

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If [black] nationalism could create a strong and effective insularity, deliver on its promise of self-respect, then the hurt it might cause…

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Now, I've lived long enough to know that race relations are better than they were 10 or 20 or 30 years ago…

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That's just how white folks will do you. It wasn't merely the cruelty involved; I was learning that black people could be…

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One of the most durable and destructive legacies of discrimination is the way we've internalized a sense of limitation; how so many…

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