Culture Quote by Taylor Branch

In the 21st century, we must teach and learn from our history and swear never to repeat it, but we cannot use our past…

— Byron Donalds

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

— Paul Beatty

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

“I realize that we are often wary of making these kinds of broad generalizations about different cultural groups--and with good reason. This is the…

— Malcolm Gladwell

World history is made by minorities when this minority of number embodies the majority of will and determination.

— Adolf Hitler

America's history regarding race is troublesome and deserves the proper attention, but we cannot allow for the degradation of American values and culture through…

— Byron Donalds

Race is a constant factor in American life. Yet reacting to every incident,real or imagined, is crippling, tiring, and ultimately counterproductive.

— Condoleezza Rice

Although both my grandfathers encountered ethnic prejudice, they viewed this as an aberration-a failure of some Americans to live up to the nation's ideals.…

— Robert P. George

Historically - when you look at how America has evolved, typically we make progress on race relations in fits and starts. We make some…

— Barack Obama

As people of color, we're left out of history. History is sort of told around us. We're bystanders, we're passive, we're observers. We're never…

— Amma Asante

Much of America is petrified to bring up race, especially in public forums - the media, in particular.

— Andrew Breitbart

History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice.

— Will Durant