365 Quotes About Race-relations

You mean uh whole town uh nothin' but colored folks? Who bosses it, den?""Dey bosses it deyself.""You mean dey runnin' de town 'thout de white folks?""Sho is. Eben got a mayor and corporation.""Ah sho wants tuh see dat sight.

Reconciliation and social justice are two sides of the same coin.

The seduction of whiteness and privilege is powerful. Whites can always return to a life ofprivilege.

The seduction of whiteness and privilege is powerful. Whites can always return to a life of privilege.

Accountability should be void of color, religion, position, or socio-economic restrictions. If you are wrong, you are wrong.

Deep wounds are not easily healed. But the Good Samaritan poured oil and wine into the wounds of the stranger who lay helpless on the road to Jericho, and set him on the road to recovery. Each one of us can go and do likewise.

Our teacher says we're supposed to be colorblind. That's hard to do if you can see color, isn't it?""Yeah, I'd say so, but I think your teacher means don't make any assumptions based on color.""Cross on the green and not in between.

All white people, I think, are implicated in these things so long as we participate in America in a normal way and attempt to go on leading normal lives while any one race is being cheated and tormented. But I now believe that we will probably go on leading our normal lives, and will go on participating in our nation in a normal way, unless there comes a time where Negroes can compel us by methods of extraordinary pressure to interrupt our pleasure.

She was white, wore perfume and smiled openly with the Negro customers, so I knew she was sophisticated. Other people's sophistication tended to make me nervous and I stayed shy of Louise.