Top Race Relations Quotes

No one is an outside observer of nature,We're defined by our environment and our interaction with that environment -- by our ecology. And that ecology is necessarily relative, historical and empirical...

Building bridges takes us further than building walls.

Becoming conscious of racism does not mean you are a racist.

I don’t think that the Negro problem in America can be even discussed coherently without bearing in mind its context; its context being the history, traditions, customs, the moral assumptions and preo...

We do not admire their president.We know why the White House is white.We do not find their children irresistible;We do not agree they should inherit the earth.

Electing a bigot enables further bigotry.

What does it mean when I say that 'I don't see race?' It means that because I learned to see no difference between 'white' and 'color,' I have white-washed my own sense of self. It means that I know m...

How's that training coming along, Griff? Good old Max says you're a natural.Turner frowned. Any time a white man asked you about yourself, they were about to fuck you over.

I understand now that the only time black people don't feel guilty is when we've actually done something wrong, because that relieves us of the cognitive dissonance of being black and innocent, and in...

Pride is the problem. Everyone wants to be right so badly they overlook the "rights" of others.

Prejudice plunges you into a world of fear and hate. That's no way to live.

When you're marginalized, there are no "them people," if we're all on the outskirts of the same margin.

Bigotry is based on deception, of oneself and of others.

Never be content to sit back and watch as others' rights are trampled upon. Your rights could be next.

There's "good" in all things. You just have to find it.

Discrimination does not 'make America great.' It makes America weak.

There is nothing 'honorable' or 'reasonable' in giving a pass to those who want to discriminate.

Racism is dead only to those who've closed their eyes and ears to the whole world around them.

The minute we look away, the minute we stop fighting back, that's the minute bigotry wins.

It was not only colored people who praised John, since they could not, John felt, in any case really know; but white people also said it, in fact had said it first and said it still. It was when John...