Race Quotes

Perhaps one day, all these conflicts will end, and it won't be because of great statesmen or churche...

I’m not that kind of Indian,” Shanti said, her practiced smile never leaving her face, though it fal...

The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.

The Murchisons are honest-to-God-real-foe-rich colored people, and the only people in the world who ...

I tried to get away from him, to get to that door, but instead I backed up against the wall and was ...

This is the next and the more profound stage of the battle for civil rights. We seek not just freedo...

Sean reaches between us and slides a thin bracelet of red ribbons over my free hand. Lifting my arm,...

I whisper like the sea in the horse's ear.

The only difference between man and man all the world over is one of degree, and not of kind, even a...

Gentleness, self-sacrifice and generosity are the exclusive possession of no one race or religion.

No matter how much respect, no matter how much recognition whites show towards me…as long as that sa...

It's like the Negro in America seeing the white man win all the time.He's a professional gambler; he...

The greatest miracle Christianity has achieved in America is that the black man in white Christian h...

I have often reflected upon the new vistas that reading opened to me. I knew right there, in prison,...

I regard the Klan, the Anglo-Saxon clubs and White American societies, as far as the Negro is concer...

You're safer in the race car than you are in cars going to and from the track.

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear-not absence of fear. Except a creature be part coward...

May I say just a word to those of you who are struggling against this evil. Always be sure that you ...

I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be jud...

I must make two honest confessions to you, my Christian and Jewish brothers. First, I must confess t...

Segregation shaped me education liberated me.

The customs are as formalised as an eighteenth-century minuet, and a child at the race's knee learns...

I've never treated anyone badly or in a discriminatory way based on their gender, race, religion or ...

Checking a box on a form for race—"Caucasian," "Hispanic," "African-American," "Native American," or...

The notion that a vast gulf exists between "criminals" and those of us who have never served time in...

What is key to America’s understanding of class is the persistent belief — despite all evidence to t...

I am an African. I am white. I, in my humble way, and others in their much more brave way, have earn...

Even she hair itself rough and wiry; long black knotty locks springing from she scalp and corkscrewi...

What's that you mutter to yourself, Matthew Maule?" asked Scicpio. "And what for do you look so blac...

During my lifetime I have dedicated myself to this struggle of the African people. I have fought aga...

The year 2100 will see eugenics universally established. In past ages, the law governing the surviva...

There is nothing like race, is there?

The decision must be made between Judaism and Christianity, between business and culture, between ma...

She was like a queen who beholds the virgin soil of her kingdom invaded and wasted by a traitor.Any ...

I was in my early twenties and I was, to be quite honest, a bit of a punk. A swaggering entitled str...

This is the basis, and I am not being tried for whether I am a Communist, I am being tried for fight...

Race prejudice is not only a shadow over the colored — it is a shadow over all of us, and the shadow...

The Olympic Spirit is neither the property of one race nor of one age.

The moment I entered the bright, buzzing lobby of Men’s House I was overcome by a sense of alienatio...

I am standing puzzled, unable to decide whether the veil is really being lifted, or lowered more fir...

Foisting an identity on people rather than allowing them the freedom and space to create their own i...

The tension between people is palpable, and the ideal of what it means to be and look American becom...

...being Latino means being from everywhere, and that is exactly what America is supposed to be abou...

Perhaps finding out that we carry New World history in our genes will transcend racial checkboxes al...

I guess it all depends on whom you ask and when you ask. Race, I've learned, is in the eye of the be...

While America will always, I think, feel foreign to me, New York City is my home. This is where I ca...

Are Latino-Americans white? Black? Other? Illegal aliens from Mars? Or are we the very face of Ameri...

The white folks like for us to be religious, then they can do what they want to with us.

I'm American. Why didn't I say I was African American? Because I'm in a foreign country? But can I r...

Does this mean that in some places I'm American and in some places I'm African American and in other...

One paid for one's knowledge with one's skin.

A race that rejected the idea of personal sacrifice would surely be erased from time's records befor...

Needless to say, there are people who hate Arabs, Somalis, and other immigrants from predominantly M...

No race of barbarians ever existed yet offered up children for money.

I don’t know whether Asimov realized he was saying this as well, but as an old historical materialis...

In order to cultivate a set of leaders with legitimacy in the eyes of the citizenry, it is necessary...

I’m not beholden to the confirmation of your prejudices; to be perfectly frank, the prospect of conf...

For the mentally disturbed, Marie knew these sandwich visits might be the only dependable moments in...

Despite all of the time he spent in Big Heart's, Wilson had never come to understand the social live...

Mick had once come across one of Wilson't books and was surprised to see his face on the back cover....

Okay listen, you think I'm so inconsequential? Then try this on for size. All those who see unworthi...

I may now add that civilization is a process in the service of Eros, whose purpose is to combine sin...

Oh, quit it! You're the possessor of a beautiful wife, a beautiful gas-stove, and you were going to ...

The more a race is governed by its passions, the less it has acquired the habit of cautious and reas...

Everybody's entitled to that forty acres and a mule. You're going to do the work, but you have to ha...

Up until then I'd thought that white people and colored people getting along was the big aim, but af...

Mozart, Pascal, Boolean algebra, Shakespeare, parliamentary government, baroque churches, Newton, th...

My parents taught me never to judge others based on whom they love, what color their skin is, or the...

There was once a caustic comment from someone suggesting I was breeding a new race. Fans from differ...

High Europe always played at ethnic contempt because it was High Europe, and so had the strength, th...

Despite widespread misconceptions in the United States today that the institution of slavery was bas...

Hockey is a sport for white men. Basketball is a sport for black men. Golf is a sport for white men ...

Nobody loves the head of a dandelion. Maybe because they are so many, strong, and soon.

I never asked Tolstoy to write for me, a little colored girl in Lorain, Ohio. I never asked [James] ...

It comforts everybody to think of all Negroes as dirt poor, and to regard those who were not, who ea...

Certain seeds it will not nurture, certain fruit it will not bear and when the land kills of its own...

Never did he once consider directing his hatred toward the hunters. Such an emotion would have destr...

Some folks call her a runaway. A failure in the race. But she knows where her ticket takes her. She ...

As a kid I understood that people were different colors, but in my head white and black and brown we...

In any society built on institutionalized racism, race-mixing doesn't merely challenge the system as...

My mom raised me as if there were no limitations on where I could go or what I could do. When I look...

Try being a white person who adopts the trappings of black culture while still living in the white c...

I became a chameleon. My color didn't change, but I could change your perception of my color. If you...

My inspiration for writing music is like Don McLean did when he did "American Pie" or "Vincent". Lor...

One reads the truer deeper facts of Reconstruction with a great despair. It is at once so simple and...

It was not, then, race and culture calling out of the South in 1876; it was property and privilege, ...

America is not another word for Opportunity to all her sons.

At best, the natural good-nature is edged with complaint or has changed into sullenness and gloom. A...

They approach me in a half-hesitant sort of way, eye me curiously or compassionately, and then, inst...

We got a call from across the street that a black woman had broken into this house.”“And you were go...

Because you have no memory for things that happened ten or twenty years ago, you're still mouthing t...

There had been three of them once: James, then a sister named Fonsiba, then Lucas, children of Aunt ...

The standard of matrimony is erected by affection and purity, and does not depend upon the height, o...

This has been the century of strangers, brown, yellow and white. This has been the century of the gr...

Some of us are happy with our African hair, thank you very much. I don't want some poor Indian girl'...

There could be something wrong with me because I see Negroes neither better nor worse than any other...

He has only heard what I felt.

As a nation, we began by declaring that 'all men are created equal.' We now practically read it 'all...

I don't see much future for the Americans ... it's a decayed country. And they have their racial pro...

I was weeping for all of history's incredible atrocities against fellowmen, which seems to be mankin...