To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships —W. E. B. Du Bois in The Souls of Black Folk More about this quote Tags: money poverty wealth race Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
If some folks have buried their racial prejudices, the chances are that they’ve got the graves marked and will have no trouble disinterring their pet hates. —Josephine Lawrence More about this quote Tags: hatred racism race Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I never believed in Santa Claus because I knew no white dude would come into my neighborhood after dark. —Dick Gregory More about this quote Tags: poverty race Christmas Santa Claus whiteness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
When we're unemployed, we're called lazy; when the whites are unemployed, it's called a depression. —Jesse Jackson More about this quote Tags: USA race blackness unemployment Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The melting pot failed to function in one crucial area. Religions and nationalities, however different, generally learned to live together, even to grow together, in America. But color was something else. Reds were murdered like wild animals. Yellows were characterized as a peril and incarcerated en masse during World War II for no really good reason by our most liberal president. Browns have been abused as the new slave labor on farms. The blacks, who did not come here willingly, are now, more than a century after emancipation by Lincoln, still suffering a host of slavelike inequalities. —Theodore M. Hesburgh More about this quote Tags: history religion America race Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
If a white man falls off a chair drunk, it's just a drunk. If a Negro does, it's the whole damn Negro race. —Bill Cosby More about this quote Tags: perception race blackness whiteness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
A minority group has "arrived" only when it has the right to produce some fools and scoundrels without the entire group paying for it. —Carl T. Rowan More about this quote Tags: fools race discrimination Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Jon Stewart: Your mother is from Kansas. She's a white woman. Your father, African. Are you concerned that you may go into the voting booth and . . . your white half will all of a sudden decide, "I can't do this"?Barack Obama: Yeah. It's a problem. —From The Daily Show, October 2008 More about this quote Tags: politics history USA race Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I am quite sure . . . I have no race prejudices, and I think I have no color prejudices, nor caste prejudices, nor creed prejudices. Indeed, I know it. I can stand any society. All I care to know is that a man is a human being — that is enough for me; he can't be any worse. —Mark Twain More about this quote Tags: humanity prejudice race irony Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email