~ Excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism. ~
~ Racism has been an integral component of American culture since its founding upon the genocide of Native Americans, and the forced slavery of Africans and Afro-Americans. ~
~ Racism is when you have laws set up, systematically put in a way to keep people from advancing, to stop the advancement of a people. Black people have never had the power to enforce racism, and so this is something that white America is going to have to work out themselves. If they decide they want to stop it, curtail it, or to do the right thing ... then it will be done, but not until then. ~
~ Even the most blatant bigots, when made aware of their racism, can change. ~
~ There aren’t too many people ready to die for racism. They’ll kill for racism but they won’t die for racism. ~
~ Racism does not limit itself to biology or economics or psychology or metaphysics; it attacks along many fronts and in many forms, deploying whatever is at hand, and even what is not, inventing when the need arises. ~
~ At the heart of racism is the religious assertion that God made a creative mistake when He brought some people into being ~
~ On an altar of prejudice we crucify our own, yet the blood of all children is the color of God. ~
~ The risk of racial prejudice infecting a capital sentencing proceeding is especially serious in light of the complete finality of the death sentence. ~
~ 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. ~
~ Be nice to whites, they need you to rediscover their humanity. ~
~ The white man's happiness cannot be purchased by the black man's misery. ~