Racial Quotes

• If genetic memory or racial memory persists, is it possible that individual memory also exists from previous lives?

  

  Taylor Caldwell
  • Memory
  • Possible
  • Racial

• I was born in Columbia in 1954, the year the Supreme Court invalidated racial segregation in public schools. I visited frequently but did not live there.

  

  Randall Kennedy
  • Live
  • Year
  • Racial

• Even after facing jail, Martin Luther King, Jr. courageously and boldly spoke out against racial inequality.

  

  Yvette Clarke
  • King
  • Inequality
  • Racial

• The symbolic value of having an African-American president has certainly eased some racial tensions in America, but they're not gone.

  

  Naomi Wolf
  • American
  • America
  • Value

• White racial grievance enjoys automatic credibility, and even when disproven, it is never disqualifying of its bearers.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • White
  • Racial
  • Credibility

• I never ceased to be surprised when southern whites, at their homes or clubs, told racial jokes and spoke so derogatorily of blacks while longtime servants, for whom they quite clearly had some affection, were well within earshot.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Jokes
  • Affection
  • Racial

• ...Baltimore. It's imperfect. Boy, is it imperfect. And there are parts of its past that make you wince. It's not all marble steps and waitresses calling you 'hon,' you know. Racial strife in the sixties, the riots during the Civil War. F. Scott Fitzgerald said it was civilized and gay, rotted and polite. The terms are slightly anachronistic now, but I think he was essentially right.

  

  Laura Lippman
  • Racial
  • Strife
  • Baltimore

• We think that there really is racial bias in determining who people want to date.

  

  Sam Yagan
  • People
  • Think
  • Racial

• In countries where there are no racial differences or no religious differences, people find other reasons to set aside one certain group of people and generally spit in their direction.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • People
  • Religious
  • Differences

• There is not racial or ethnic domination of hopelessness. It's everywhere.

  

  Sidney Poitier
  • Racial
  • Everywhere
  • Domination

• Though this nation has proudly thought of itself as an ethnic melting pot, in things racial we have always been and I believe continue to be, in too many ways, essentially a nation of cowards.

  

  Eric Holder
  • I Believe
  • Nation
  • Cowards

• As kids, we had no clue about the racial stuff that seemed to preoccupy adults. We just enjoyed our life as kids.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Life
  • Kids
  • Just

• We also thought of ourselves in racial and largely ethnic terms.

  

  Samuel P. Huntington
  • Thought
  • Racial
  • Ethnic

• The darkness of racial injustice will be dispelled only by the light of forgiving love. For more that three centuries American Negroes have been frustrated by day and bewilderment by night by unbearable injustice, and burdened with the ugly weight of discrimination. Forced to live with these shameful conditions, we are tempted to become bitter and retaliate with a corresponding hate. But if this happens, the new order we seek will be little more than a duplicate of the old order. We must in strength and humility meet hate with love.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Hate
  • Humility
  • Injustice

• In my humble opinion, preserving racial purity isn't a worthwhile goal. You should be able to date whomever, whenever, wherever without the threat of a backlash.

  

  Candace Kita
  • Opinion
  • Goal
  • Humble

• People feel uncomfortable talking about racial issues out of fear that if they express things they will be characterized in a way that's not fair. I think that there is still a need for a dialogue about things racial that we have not engaged in.

  

  Eric Holder
  • Issues
  • Dialogue
  • Characterized

• In our struggle against racial segregation in Montgomery, Alabama, I came to see at a very early stage that a synthesis of Gandhi's method of nonviolence and the Christian ethic of love is the best weapon available to Negroes for this struggle for freedom and human dignity. It may well be that the Gandhian approach will bring about a solution to the race problem in America. His spirit is a continual reminder to oppressed people that it is possible to resist evil and yet not resort to violence.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • People
  • Problem
  • Weapon

• I'm Native American, so the racial thing kind of hits home with me.

  

  Rickey Medlocke Lynyrd Skynyrd
  • American
  • Thing
  • Racial

• Bob Marley stood for universal peace and love. He tried to break racial barriers.

  

  Wyclef Jean Fugees
  • Peace
  • Break
  • Universal

• I think racial profiling is wrong. It cannot be defended. It's just flat wrong. And if a matter came before me, and it could be established that the arrest was made strictly on racial profiling, when I was on the bench, it would be gone.

  

  Judge Mills Lane
  • Matter
  • Wrong
  • Profiling

• People try to start things with me because of who I am, and I know that means I have to stay away. Its definitely racial.

  

  Allen Iverson
  • People
  • Means
  • Racial

• The implied terms of the racial contract are visible everywhere for those willing to see them.

  

  Justin Brannan Caninus
  • See
  • Racial
  • Visible

• I'm doing stuff on Kaballah and Scientology and a little bit more racial stuff, for good measure.

  

  Sarah Silverman
  • Racial
  • Scientology

• The racial question, and thus class struggle, of course, I think they are processes which necessarily are intersecting all the time. I understand that there are moments they disassociate, but in the end they are things that go walking together practically all the time.

  

  Bocafloja
  • Question
  • Struggle
  • Racial

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