1960s Quote by Shelby Steele

America still has a race problem, though not the one that conventional wisdom would suggest: the racism of whites toward blacks. Old fashioned white…

— Shelby Steele

The share of Americans who say race relations are bad in this country is the highest it's been in decades, much of it amplified…

— Lester Holt

Racism plagued America throughout the '60s, into the '70s, through the '80s; it continued in the '90s and in the first decade of the…

— 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

The share of Americans who say race relations are bad in this country is the highest it's been in decades, much of it amplified…

— Lester Holt

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've done a very poor job at really reflecting on our legacy of racial inequality... You see it in the South, but it's everywhere.

— Bryan Stevenson

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

— Constance Baker Motley

“This is not to portray race as simply one among many issues, each with equal weight; instead, race has been the principal weapon in…

— Ian Haney López

Our country has had a painful, racial history, and there are many issues that bear discussing.

— Jemele Hill

The lessons of the past suggest that racism and resentment against people of color will continue to flourish in America as long as the…

— Susan L. Taylor

There clearly is a serious race problem in the country. Just take a look at what's happening to African American communities. For example wealth,…

— Noam Chomsky