Ability Quote by Tom Lehrer

Officers in command of colored troops are in constant habit of pressing all able-bodied slaves into the military service of the U.S.

— Lovell Rousseau

As a Green Beret who served in combat while deployed in Afghanistan, I know what it's like to command a unit comprised of different…

— Michael Waltz

Preferring members of any one group for no reason other than race or ethnic origin is discrimination for its own sake. This the Constitution…

— Colin Powell

In a completely integrated unit where you'd have white soldiers, particularly from southern states, serving under black noncommissioned officers or officers... I think you…

— Omar N. Bradley

The Army confronted racial integration when it was still unpopular in society. It has been struggling to more fully integrate women. Its troops, after…

— Dana Priest

There's an old saying in the black community that everybody else is protected and served but we are policed, we don't want to be…

— Benjamin Crump

Above all, our freedom endures because of the men and women in uniform who defend it.

— Barack Obama

A major of colored troops is here with his party capturing negroes, with or without their consent…They are being conscripted.

— John A. Logan

As in many British organisations, subtle institutionalised discrimination may well prevail. But in all my time in the army I've never experienced overt racism.

— Clive Lewis

The troops aren't red and blue. They're not black and white. They're not male and female. They are Americans! When they put their uniforms…

— Tamron Hall

Discrimination is not a national defense strategy!

— Tom Perez

We must have black troops, and a limitless number of them too - paid and treated like their white brothers.

— Benjamin Lincoln