20th century Quote by Constance Baker Motley

I think we've made tremendous progress on racism. We've even made progress on war. We've made almost no progress on poverty.

— Andrew Young

Take the time to discover how African-Americans have had a great impact on this country. In science, education, literature, art, and politics.

— Lynn Swann

By the 1960s, many of us believed that the Civil Rights Movement could eliminate racism in America during our lifetime. But despite significant progress,…

— Bill Cosby

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

— Barack Obama

The ills of discrimination are still with us. We have to continue the tenacity and vigilance of the 1960s. Racial understanding is not something…

— Thomas Cole

America still has a race problem, though not the one that conventional wisdom would suggest: the racism of whites toward blacks. Old fashioned white…

— Shelby Steele

Let me tell you, never before in the history of this planet has anybody made the progress that African-Americans have made in a 30-year…

— Dick Gregory

Our racial past and future is something that we Americans must address.

— Uzodinma Iweala

We still have to struggle against the impact of racism, but it doesn't happen in the same way. I think it is much more…

— Angela Davis

Where race is concerned, America has had a horrible, a wretched history and that came to account in the 1960s, with the Civil Rights…

— Shelby Steele

If it weren't for the likes of Sharpton, Jackson, the Congressional Black Caucus, Barack Obama, and the NAACP, racial strife in America would be…

— Jesse Lee Peterson

There has always been a great deal of racism in the U.S. before and after Obama.

— Daryl Davis