America Quote by Jamaal Bowman

We need a more substantive conversation around race relations and the way people of color are treated.

— Megan Rapinoe

We need to make sure that we have an honest, honest conversation and that we engage honest practices around how racism operates in this…

— Alicia Garza

Here's a thought, instead of taking the easy road under the guise of being politically correct and making hasty judgments about matters as serious…

— Phaedra Parks

We need to have a more thoughtful, two-sided conversation about racial issues in this country.

— Megan Rapinoe

As a country, we are in a state of denial about issues of race and racism. And too many of our leaders have concluded…

— Lani Guinier

racism is alive and doing too well in America.

— Johnnetta B. Cole

Racism exists, but what I want to do is start a dialogue.

— Charles Barkley

Talking about what any one section of our society has to do to combat racism just stops people outside that group asking difficult questions…

— John Barnes

Why is racism still a conversation in 2020? We are all one. It hurts me. It upsets me.

— Patrick van Aanholt

I think that we need to have an honest conversation in this country. This idea that somehow we're beyond sexism, beyond racism is just…

— Cory Booker

This is the 21st century, and we would all like to think racism is dead in America. Actually, that's not the case: still there…

— Alveda King

We have to be honest, we have to be truthful and speak to the one dirty secret in American life, and that is racism.

— Henry Cisneros