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  • Only men of moral and mental force, of a patriotic regard for the relationship of the two races, can be of real service as ministers in the South. Less theology and more of human brotherhood, less declamation and more common sense and love for truth, must be the qualifications of the new ministry that shall yet save the race from the evils of false teaching.

  • There was never a promise that race relations in America would be entirely resolved during my presidency or anybody's presidency. I mean, this has been a running thread - and - and fault line in American life and American politics since its founding.

    Running   Mean   Race  
    Interview with Jon Sopel on BBC, www.bbc.com. July 24, 2015.
  • I think there's a lot of shame in American race relations. There's a lot of suppressed guilt that lashes itself out still. I see that all the time, and whereas opposed to sort of trying to address the issue in an up-front way, they're attacking and thus perpetuating the problem thinking that they're being sophisticated and post-racial, when, in fact, they're being completely regressive.

    Thinking   Issues   Race  
    Source: deadline.com
  • Hip hop culture has done more for race relations in American than anything since Martin Luther King. And I really believe that.

    Kings   Believe   Race  
    Source: deadline.com
  • in race relations, the single gesture and the single individual are more often than not doomed to failure. Only the group and the long-term, undeviating policy make much headway. ... if you want to make the world a better place, the first thing you must accept is the fact that you cannot transcend your limitations as an individual.

    Race   Long   Racism  
    Margaret Halsey (1946). “Color blind: a white woman looks at the Negro”
  • If you care to define the South as a poor, rural region with lousy race relations, that South survives only in geographical shreds and patches and most Southerners don't live there any more.

    Race   Care   Poor  
  • I am absolutely convinced that race relations on the whole are actually better now than they were 20 years [ago].

    Race   Years   Relation  
    Source: abcnews.go.com
  • So, to say Barack Obama is progress is saying that he's the first black person that is qualified to be president. That's not black progress. That's white progress.

    White   Black   Progress  
  • I think various places in this country are ready to explode. I think [race relations] are very tense. I think that [Barack] Obama has divided the country as far as race relations are concerned, and I think that you have certain sections, and you have lots of different locations within this country that potentially are powder kegs.

    Country   Thinking   Race  
    Source: www.economist.com
  • I have compromised down the line. I've disliked it intensely in the old days when you were trying to talk race relations and they would not allow you to talk about the legitimacies of race relations. In the old days, you didn't talk about black, you talked about Eskimo or American Indian, and the American Indian was assumed not to be a problem area.

    Race   Black   Trying  
    Source: www.rodserling.com
  • The history of race relations in America is very different than something like the Holocaust.

    "Jamaica Kincaid: Does Truth Have a Tone?". Interview with Lauren K. Alleyne, www.guernicamag.com. June 17, 2013.
  • Yes, 'Black Girl/White Girl' might be described as a 'coming-of-age' novel, at least for the survivor Genna. It is also intended as a comment on race relations in America more generally: we are 'roommates' with one another, but how well do we know one another?

    Girl   Race   White  
  • In Stamps the segregation was so complete that most Black children didn't really, absolutely know what whites looked like.

    Maya Angelou (2012). “The Collected Autobiographies of Maya Angelou”, p.24, Modern Library
  • If you are going to abolish slavery, that opens up all these other questions: what system of labor is going to replace slave labor? What system of race relations is going to replace the race relations of slavery? Who is going to have power in the post-war South? The Emancipation Proclamation doesn't answer that question, but it throws [it] open.

    War   Slave Labor   Race  
    "Eric Foner on the Perennial Relevance of Abraham Lincoln". Interview with Aaron Leonard, historynewsnetwork.org. October 4, 2010.
  • ... one of the blind spots of most Negroes is their failure to realize that small overtures from whites have a large significance... I now realize that this feeling inevitably takes possession of one in the bitter struggle for equality. Indeed, I share it. Yet I wonder how we can expect total acceptance to step full grown from the womb of prejudice, with no embryo or infancy or childhood stages.

  • I think it's sinful to give the audience material it knows already, whether the material is about race relations or the car culture or the depiction and placement of a candy bar.

    Thinking   Race   Giving  
    Interview with Richard Thompson, www.screeningthepast.com. 1977.
  • In high school, I discovered myself. I was interested in race relations and the legal profession. I read about Lincoln and that he believed the law to be the most difficult of professions.

    School   Race   Law  
  • I have a dream that one day little black boys and girls will be holding hands with little white boys and girls.

    Girl   Dream   Boys  
  • When I was trained as a journalist, as a race-relations reporter in Nashville covering the end of the civil-rights movement, we were strictly forbidden to use the first-person pronoun. There was kind of an electric charge around it. To come out from hiding and use the word 'I' carried a lot of fright for me.

    Nashville   Rights   Race  
  • The advantage that my children have is that my children are encountering the nicest white people that America has ever produced. Let’s hope America keeps producing nicer white people.

    "Chris Rock's Epic Truth Bomb About How It's White People That Have Progressed, Not Black People". Interview with Angie Aker, www.upworthy.com. December 2, 2014.
  • The country has come a long way in race relations, but the pendulum swings so far back. Everyone wants to be so sensitive.

    Country   Race   Swings  
  • Here's the thing. When we talk about race relations in America or racial progress, it's all nonsense. There are no race relations. White people were crazy. Now they're not as crazy. To say that black people have made progress would be to say they deserve what happened to them before.

    Crazy   Race   White  
    Interview with Frank Rich, www.vulture.com. November 30, 2014.
  • [Race relations in 2015 are] almost as bad as they have ever been in the history of the country.

    Source: www.economist.com
  • In Sumter and other counties [in South Carolina] the whites are resorting to intimidation and violence to prevent the colored people from organizing for the elections. The division there is still on the color line. Substantially all the whites are Democrats and all the colored people are Republicans. There is no political principle in dispute between them. The whites have the intelligence, the property, and the courage which make power. The negroes are for the most part ignorant, poor, and timid. My view is that the whites must be divided there before a better state of things will prevail.

    Views   Color   People  
  • When you are honest in your comedy, you have to acknowledge the world that you're in. Through a comedic voice you're talking about what needs to be talked about, whether it's race relations or politics or anything that's happening on a global or an American scale.

    Race   Talking   Voice  
    Source: www.chicagotribune.com
  • In the last few years, race relations in America have entered upon a period of intensified craziness wherein fear of being called a racist has so thoroughly overwhelmed fear of being a racist that we are in danger of losing sight of the distinction.

    America   Race   Sight  
  • Christopher Columbus introduced two phenomena that revolutionized race relations and transformed the modern world: the taking of land, wealth, and labor from indigenous people in the Western Hemisphere, leading to their near extermination, and the transatlantic slave trade, which created a racial underclass.

    Race   Land   Two  
    James W. Loewen (2013). “Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong”, p.72, The New Press
  • Strictly speaking, one cannot legislate love, but what one can do is legislate fairness and justice. If legislation does not prohibit our living side by side, sooner or later your child will fall on the pavement and I'll be the one to pick her up. Or one of my children will not be able to get into the house and you'll have to say, "Stop here until your mom comes here." Legislation affords us the chance to see if we might love each other.

    Love   Mom   Children  
  • One who is a slaveholder at heart never recognizes a human being in a slave.

  • People are very comfortable when race relations get looked at retrospectively. Slavery, the civil rights movement, etc.

    Rights   Race   People  
    Source: www.guernicamag.com
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