America Quote by Jamaica Kincaid

Unfortunately, racism is not confined to our history books.

— Kevin Faulconer

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

— Barack Obama

People are very comfortable when race relations get looked at retrospectively. Slavery, the civil rights movement, etc.

— Paul Beatty

The Holocaust is - there's nothing comparable to it.

— Marjorie Taylor Greene

Everything in American public life, when it comes to race relations, serves as a frame for a history of violence and degrading humiliation.

— Amitava Kumar

My family, friends and community members rarely spoke about race relations, or how people from different races have different experiences growing up in America.…

— Joe Thomas

Black history is American history.

— Morgan Freeman

America has a strange relationship with its racial memory. Death has always been a constant companion of black people.

— Salim Akil

We want to believe racism is an artifact of the past, and if you have a political massacre, that contradicts that.

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

Racism remains in the eyes of history ... merely another instance of the persecution of minorities for the advantage of those in power.

— Ruth Benedict

The patterns have become unmistakable and undeniable. ... We have to come to terms with some hard truths about race and justice in America.

— Hillary Clinton

Black history is American history. You cannot tell one story without telling the other.

— William Barr