American Quote by Gloria Steinem

I can think of no better reason to vote against Obama than the prospect of an administration where any criticism of the President is…

— Glenn Reynolds

Many voted in 2008 with the desire to see racism and racists humiliated by having a qualified black man elected president.

— Douglas Wilder

The greatest hope most Americans - including Republicans - had when Barack Obama was elected president was that the election of a black person…

— Dennis Prager

I am concerned that there are some feelings in some quarters in some corners that, what do people of color want now? We elected…

— John Lewis

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

— Daryl Davis

I don't think that a vote for Barack Obama is a symbolic thing. I think it's much more than that. It's not just a…

— Aunjanue Ellis

Institutionalized racism has been with us pre-Obama, and it obviously will be with us post-Obama.

— Bernice King

There were people who voted for Obama simply because he was the first African-American. We had a lot of people that would not have…

— Rush Limbaugh

The promise of Obama's presidency, in many people's minds, is partly that America will move toward becoming a post-racial society. It's pretty clear, though,…

— Timothy Noah

“The sober truth is that the most important civil rights battles were fought and won four decades before the Obama presidency. The black underclass…

— Jason L. Riley

In Obama's case, we've enabled affirmative action to find a home in the nation's highest office. There you have it. I said it and…

— Allen West

African-Americans who might have disagreed with candidate Obama's left-of-center politics voted for him in 2008 because electing a candidate with brown skin was too…

— Alveda King