Racial Quotations

There is no question that race and racial prejudice played a part in the interplay between these individuals.

Mississippi, in trying to promote racial harmony, is on the right track at the right station doing the right thing.

I was also interested in the racial side of it. Even today, the Chief of the London Metropolitan Police is trying to make the force more representative of London and there's a lot of resistance from the predominantly white force.

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,

People have very different perspectives and very different life experiences based on their ethnicity. When you put them in close quarters in a situation designed to highlight cultural and racial differences, you realize they don't really understand each other very well at all.

People in the Middle East may consider the U.S. an evil hegemony that has tainted their culture, but when I look at the growth of racial and ethnic tolerance and understanding in my generation in the U.S., and see those sentiments make it around the world, it makes me feel proud.

That was a tragedy but what it said to me was that the real tragedy was how deeply racial profiling had seeped into the police department.

The 1913 law is an artifact of an era of trying to block racial equality. It's serving its mission of discrimination.

Many black people I know are proud of the Irish part of their heritage - an Irish grandparent, say - but they recognise that many people believe in a form of racial purity. And it is from that belief that prejudice starts.

Our failure as a society to properly acknowledge and confront the psychological, social, and political effects of white privilege has perpetuated racial inequality and race-based political resentments.