Racism In The Usa Quotes & Sayings

It is truly horrible to understand yourself as the essential below of your country. It breaks too much of what we would like to think about ourselves, our lives, the world we move through and the people who surround us. The struggle to understand is our only advantage over this madness. — Ta-Nehisi Coates

...she called, 'Mother, come out, someone's here, he brought the rain. — Zsuzsa Bank

I do not doubt that our country will finally come through safe and undivided. But do not misunderstand me ... I do not rely on the patriotism of our people ... the bravery and devotion of the boys in blue ... (or) the loyalty and skill of our generals ... But the God of our fathers, Who raised up this country to be the refuge and asylum of the oppressed and downtrodden of all nations, will not let it perish now. I may not live to see it ... I do not expect to see it, but God will bring us through safe. — Abraham Lincoln

When we were old enough, Mom felt like she had given us all the tools she could to have happy lives, and she wanted us to do just that. Live. Make our own mythology, not be swallowed up by hers. Live the kind of happy, drama-free, painful and joyful mortal life she couldn't, and at the end of it come home to be ushered into our next life by the two people who brought us here in the first place. I know you think mortality is evidence that they don't care, but giving us the the ability to grow and change and progress and then finish? That was the greatest gift two ageless, eternal, very very stuck gods could think to give the children they love more than anything. — Kiersten White

I want to fuck you on every base and eat you out in centerfield. I want to play every game with your pussy on me. — C.D. Reiss

Jews were expelled to Israel, Protestants were expelled to the USA and where should the Muslims go? — Daniel Marques

The matter came up for judicial investigation, but as might have been expected, the white people concluded it was unnecessary to wait the result of the investigation - that it was preferable to hang the accused first and try him afterward. — Ida B. Wells-Barnett

We want to remember that America is at its best when it's struggling to live up to its stated ideals. — Lonnie Bunch

For almost one hundred years, leaders of the white South managed to freeze race relations and racial ideology in something close to the Confederate pattern, thus demonstrating that the passage of time by itself does not erase a conflicted past. Elite southern men and women created an ideology of the Lost Cause that wrapped antebellum society, the Confederacy, Reconstruction, and postwar racism in the mantle of a protective, laudatory myth. The Lost Cause portrayed the white South as cultured, chivalrous, and superior while making the North into the aggressor - crude, unprincipled, and vindictive.

[...] Even after 1900 the Lost Cause ideology continued to gain strength under the leadership of a new generation, until most southern whites came to believe that their history and the myth were identical [75 - 76]. — Paul D. Escott

I consider myself a persuasive person. With the ability to persuade comes a certain level of power. — Ertharin Cousin

The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth. — W. Somerset Maugham

No one is more hated than he who speaks the truth. — Plato

Just like "All American" means "White," "All Lives" means "White. — Darnell Lamont Walker

When Mr. Obama entered office, he said all the right things about getting Washington spending under control. He even promised to cut the deficit in half by the end of his first term. Obviously, that didn't happen. — Pete Hegseth

Listen. I got three expressions: looking left, looking right and looking straight ahead. — Robert Mitchum

Inspiration exists, but you have to find it working. — Pablo Picasso

I did everything I could to establish myself, but it just didn't work that way. I'm not angry about that. — Tim Hardaway

I auditioned for 'Girls' the fall after I graduated from Yale. The show has been amazing - as close to perfect as it gets! — Allison Williams

We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to. — Graham Greene

The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart. — Jerome

The thing with brothers is, you're supposed to take turns being the keeper. Sometimes you get to sit down and be the brother who is kept. — Orson Scott Card