Racial Quotes

"The road to true racial justice has proved, as we always knew it would, a long and arduous distance we have travelled."
-Archbishop Of Canterbury

"There is a lot of racial prejudice in northwest Ohio, in this area."
-Don Barnett

"The risk of racial prejudice infecting a capital sentencing proceeding is especially serious in light of the complete finality of the death sentence."
-Byron R. White

"I've never seen this city as divided as it is now. The racial politics are being played. This is serious business. There are people who feel that these people are being put through a lot and they haven't been charged with anything."
-Joyce Foreman

"I took that as a racial connotation, to be honest with you."
-Linford Christie

"It's racial. I figured they were going to get away with it because they were white and it is at Duke. They're going to protect Duke and those players, plus they have the money to do so. If this was at this campus, we would've been locked up."
-Mike Jones

"Ending racial discrimination in jury selection can be accomplished only by eliminating peremptory challenges entirely."
-Thurgood Marshall

"It can be taken as that `we're not functioning as boards of racial purity with a board of white guys that sit around and decide who's an Indian and who's not.'"
-Ward Churchill

"Locally there was never even a mention or a breath of concern that this was a racial issue nor a status issue."
-Julia Renfro

"Fijians do not seek permanency as an expression of racial superiority. Their motivation is to ensure the survival of a small and distinct race."
-Laisenia Qarase

"Multinational corporations do control. They control the politicians. They control the media. They control the pattern of consumption, entertainment, thinking. They're destroying the planet and laying the foundation for violent outbursts and racial division."
-Jerry Brown

"My answer to the racial problem in America is to not deal with it at all. The founding fathers dealt with it when they made the Constitution."
-James Meredith

"The car was in compliance. There was no speeding or improper passing or whatever they make up out there. It is racial profiling. There is no doubt."
-Brandon Cameron

"Pilate's Bowl. He said they had washed their hands of responsibility for racial justice in Birmingham."
-Jonathan Bass

"I still think people do have racial hang-ups, but I think one of the reasons I can joke about it is people are shedding those racial hatreds."
-Dave Chappelle

"Racial discrimination reared its ugly head. Landlords refused to show their properties to minorities."
-Carl Harris

"Racial and denominational schools impart to the membership of their communities something which the general educational institution is wholly unable to inculcate."
-Kelly Miller

"My primary concern is racial profiling."
-Rep. Susan Bucher

"If this becomes a permanent barrier to employment and volunteering because of the use of this technology, then you're locking in the racial discrimination already in the system and multiplying its effect to a devastating degree."
-Ira Glasser

"It's really not about Cynthia McKinney. It's about African-Americans in America who are victims of racial profiling every day."
-Tyrone Brooks

"You don't want to be red-flagged for racial profiling. So you back away. The result of this is less effective policing. And this is what we see resulting from this."
-Heather Macdonald

"I would like to see more dialogue across racial lines, more diversity in the core curriculum, different faces at the policy-making table, and more people of color in higher positions of the administration. I would like to see us truly be a multicultural campus."
-Dan Bunch

"The whole racial thing has been downplayed, but that is what it was. It seems that everyone wants to sweep the thing under the rug."
-Forrest Pearson

"Although it is a coincidence that the tenth anniversary of Racial Justice Sunday falls on Sept. 11, it is very appropriate."
-Pat White

"I imagine Marshall's contributions to racial justice are a large part of the move to honor him."
-Jerome Hames

"Sexual, racial, gender violence and other forms of discrimination and violence in a culture cannot be eliminated without changing culture."
-Charlotte Bunch

"Justice O'Connor has been the key vote in everything from campaign finance to the meaning of the Voting Rights Act to racial gerrymandering to Bush v. Gore."
-Richard Hasen

"People have become more cynical about believing the stories because there have been these racial hoaxes in recent memory and because the media have reported on it."
-Frankie Bailey