Against Quote by Josephine Baker

The hate directed against the colored people here in St. Louis has always given me a sad feeling... How can you expect the world…

— Josephine Baker

Friends, to me for years St. Louis represented a city of fear... humiliation... misery and terror... A city where in the eyes of the…

— Josephine Baker

I grew up in Houston, and I remember we had separate drinking fountains, and black people sat in the balcony of the theater... We…

— Dennis Quaid

The hopeless grief of those poor colored people affected me more than almost anything else.

— Gideon Welles

I was born in '58, so the riot in Detroit in 1967 was a memorable introduction to the issue of race and how race…

— Michael Eric Dyson

Sure, I've felt racism. I think everybody has prejudice. When I was growing up, the dark Mexican kids weren't allowed in the public swimming…

— Lee Trevino

I'm so old that I can remember when most of the people promoting race hate were white.

— Thomas Sowell

White hate crimes, white hate speech. I still try to claim I wasn't brought up to hate. But hate isn't the half of it.…

— Adrienne Rich

I loved the city of St. Louis.

— Martin Brodeur

I went to a predominantly white secondary school and experienced a lot of hate and racism.

— Jay Blades

I was born in the late '70s and grew up in the deep South, and I was very much still of an era where…

— Nate Powell

St. Louis is the best thing that ever happened to me. I needed that peace in my life. And I've always been a semi-country…

— Dennis Edwards