Quotes about Race relations

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I have a dream that one day little black boys and girls will be holding hands with little white boys and girls. — Martin Luther King Jr., I Have A Dream
This is the basis, and I am not being tried for whether I am a Communist, I am being tried for fighting for the right of — Paul Robeson
And here's to the blues, the real blues— where there's a hint of hope in every cry of desperation. — David Mutti Clark, Professor Brown Shoes Teaches the Blues
Alone, we are great, but together, we are better. — Izey Victoria Odiase
We are going to win our freedom because both the sacred heritage of our nation and the eternal will of the Almighty God — Martin Luther King Jr.
We came from different backgrounds; he was white from privileged class in America, and I black from a village in Africa, — FRIENDSHIP: A True Story of Adventure, Goodwill, and Endurance.
It is truly horrible to understand yourself as the essential below of your country. It breaks too much of what we would — Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me
The leaders and followers of the Harlem Renaissance were every bit as intent on using Black culture to help make the Uni — Aberjhani, Encyclopedia of the Harlem Renaissance
It began to strike me that the point of my education was a kind of discomfort, was the process that would not award me m — Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me
Racial prejudice has always been a difficult topic for me. On several occasions I've withdrawn from conversations that d — Francis Mandewah
White folks have controlled New Orleans with money and guns, black folks have controlled it with magic and music, and al — Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume
Prejudice plunges you into a world of fear and hate. That's no way to live. — DaShanne Stokes
The details and symbols of your life have been deliberately constructed to make you believe what white people say about — James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time
We are just two people. Not that much separates us. Not nearly as much as I'd thought. — Kathryn Stockett, The Help
And America, too, is a delusion, the grandest one of all. The white race believes--believes with all its heart--that it — Colson Whitehead, The Underground Railroad
What good's a black face if it means I'm just someone else's property? Why give me these arms and legs just to carry som — Stacey Lee, Under a Painted Sky
To be an American is to be accosted by bigotry and enmity for the rights that you were told to appreciate. — Tennessee West
Three hundred years of humiliation, abuse and deprivation cannot be expected to find voice in a whisper. — Martin Luther King Jr., Why We Can't Wait
Discrimination does not 'make America great.' It makes America weak. — DaShanne Stokes
Electing a bigot enables further bigotry. — DaShanne Stokes