Quotes about Race relations

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We elected a man who knows how to build walls when we needed someone who knows how to build bridges. — DaShanne Stokes
The election of Donald Trump confirmed everything I knew of my country and none of what I could accept. The idea that Am — Ta-Nehisi Coates
There are no clean victories for black people, nor, perhaps, for any people. The presidency of Barack Obama is no differ — Ta-Nehisi Coates
One Saturday morning last May, I joined the presidential motorcade as it slipped out of the southern gate of the White H — Ta-Nehisi Coates
Racist legacy laws and modern racist practices are all part of the same system, and it needs to be changed now. — DaShanne Stokes
Try to imagine how you would feel if you woke up one morning to find the sun shining and all the stars aflame. You would — James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time
May I say just a word to those of you who are struggling against this evil. Always be sure that you struggle with Christ — Martin Luther King Jr.
When he asked if she was okay, her eyes welled with tears and she said, “Like I’m always telling my brothers, if you gon — Rebecca Skloot, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Acknowledging that all our land was stolen from Native people feels like too great a burden, so we create an alternative — Daniel Hill, White Awake: An Honest Look at What It Means to Be White
You and I have to rejoice that we have not to answer for our fathers’ crimes, neither shall we do right to charge them o — William Apess, Eulogy on King Philip
Through The Mecca I saw that we were, in our own segregated body politic, cosmopolitans. The black diaspora was not just — Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me
However, in this city (San Francisco) that prides itself in being so progressive, it feels like we need to go back and m — Crystal Sykes
I don't give a damn if there's any hope for them or not. But I know that I am not about to be bugged by any more white j — James Baldwin, Another Country
None of us get to choose our race but we all get to choose how we overcome its hurtles. Whether we jump or stumble...wha — Jason Versey
My inspiration for writing music is like Don McLean did when he did "American Pie" or "Vincent". Lorraine Hansberry with — Tupac Shakur, Tupac: Resurrection 1971-1996
Only God can break through the variegated walls of skin to capture the one and only hue of the heart. One Blood. — Katelyne Parker, Hosanna
The power structure understands that Black folks have been hungry for so long, fixing us a plate now that's the same siz — Darnell Lamont Walker
Superior, do you understand me? These are white people. They are not like you, or me or us. They have the power to hurt — J. California Cooper, Some Soul to Keep
The black world was expanding before me, and I could see now that that world was more than a photonegative of that of th — Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me
Tracker Marks was of a different opinion. Though he seemed more white than a white man, he had no time for their ways. F — Richard Flanagan