Quotes About Racial

A man with a long history of racial discrimination should never run our government.

Too many young African-American and Latino men ended up in jail for nonviolent offenses.

Hypocrisy is the mother of all evil and racial prejudice is still her favourite child.

Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood," a song that was written for Simone, she confronted the band's lead singer, Eric Burdon. "So you're the honky," she said, "who stole my song and got a hit out of it?

In 1919, at the Paris Peace Conference, Japan had put forward a proposal to guarantee racial equality at the League of Nations, but Woodrow Wilson overturned it in the face of majority support.

if some folks have buried their racial prejudices, the chances are that they've got the graves marked and will have no trouble disinterring their pet hates.

If acknowledging that racial misgivings and misunderstandings are still a part of politics and life in America, I plead guilty.

tyranny is a central theme of American history, that racial exploitation and racial conflict have been part of the DNA of American culture.

Hitler envisaged something very different. He was even thinking beyond the demands for segregation that emanated from racial anti-Semites, who saw the threat of Jews expressed in terms of blood and miscegenation. Hitler believed that Germany was at war with the Jews.

The unhappy persistence of both the practice and the lingering effects of racial discrimination ...is an unfortunate reality...and the government is not disqualified from acting in response to it.

My parents taught me that racial prejudice is a sin, one that robs the world of great minds and talents.

UNNATURAL CAUSES tears back the veil to show the socio-economic and racial inequities in health as well as the public policies that underpin them. Should be required viewing.

We have only one task, to stand firm and carry on the racial struggle without mercy.

Ignorance of how we are shaped racially is the first sign of privilege. In other words. It is a privilege to ignore the consequences of race in America.

Throughout history, Islam has demonstrated through words and deeds the possibilities of religious tolerance and racial equality.

We have a history of gender and racial bias on our court that continues to undermine the system. Excluding individuals based on race is antagonistic to the pursuit of justice.

Through American history, we have had populist movements that often, often, often have this ugly racial element. But, often, there are warning signs of some deeper social and economic problem.

A good many people voted for [Barack] Obama, and I'm not only talking about the black vote. A lot of people voted for Obama because of our history of racial discrimination in this country.

Sport can create hope, where once there was only despair. It is more powerful than governments in breaking down racial barriers.

I mean, there needs to be a wholesale effort against racial profiling, which is illiterate children.

Although immigration is likely to reduce whites to a minority in just a few decades, racial etiquette requires that whites must not think of this as anything but an exciting prospect.

Something else that does no good is the constant proliferation of black subgroups. As soon as blacks join an organization, they band together into a racially exclusive subgroup. The doors of mainly white organizations are open to them, but their organizations are closed to whites. By any definition, this is racial discrimination.

This book is about racial identity, something most people who are not white take for granted. They come to it early, feel it strongly, and make no apologies for it.

By 12th grade, the average black or Hispanic is reading and doing math at the level of the average white 8th-grader. 38