America Quote by Jack Schlossberg

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

Racism was once just racism, a terrible bigotry that people nevertheless learned to live with, if not as a necessary evil then as an…

— Shelby Steele

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

The scars and stains of racism are still deeply embedded in the American society.

— John Lewis

We live in a world where racism hasn't changed at all. It's that old thing of, you know, the more things change, the more…

— Joe Morton

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

Racism may be as systemic as it always was. It is the great problem of America. It's the one stumbling block that I don't…

— Robert Guillaume

I grew up in the American South and came of age in the 1960s, an incredibly turbulent time. It was as if the seams…

— Sue Monk Kidd

“THESE MANIFESTATIONS OF BACKLASH—against family breakup, illegitimacy, welfare, crime, riots, black activists, anti-war demonstrators, long-haired hippies, government programs that favored minorities, elitists, liberals generally—exposed…

— James T. Patterson

A lot of people experience racism at different times on different terms.

— Luol Deng

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

We African Americans have now spent the major part of the 20th Century battling racism

— Constance Baker Motley