Top 1200 Racial Identity Quotes & Sayings - Page 12

At the core of conservative social policy about race are old ideas that link racial inequality to non-traditional family formation and its attendant culture of poverty.

I think that some part of society is worried that the racial achievement gap is not going to close. And so we've become obsessed with trying to find instances of racism to explain it.

Today in America we are no more "post-racial" than we are "post-partisan." We have a long way to go.

I would point out that Japan's proposal at the Versailles Peace Conference on the principle of racial equality was rejected by delegates such as those from Britain and the United States

It's not the people in the South who create racial problems - it's the people who are governing.

I'm not a fan of identity politics.

For black people, everything we do has to be ratified and endorsed by a power structure that is white. And that reinforces a kind of racial hierarchy where whiteness is the privileged position to be in, and ethnicity is problematic.

Our economic competitiveness turns on a thriving, inclusive culture grounded in racial and economic justice.

I believe there are certainly racial problems in this country, and I believe that peaceful solutions can help bring the races together.

Racial understanding is not something we find, but something that we must create. Through education, we seek to change attitudes.

Look, I grew up in, went to school in, and now live in the American South, and southern white women are interesting, complex and quirky, even the ones with racial anxieties.

Efficiency obliterates identity

It became clear over time that white people have extremely low thresholds for enduring any discomfort associated with challenges to our racial worldviews.

Great nations do not succumb through lost wars, but rather through racial decay and the destruction of their internal order.

The fights for media justice and racial justice have been intertwined since the 1960s Civil Rights Movement.

I think that white people are not seen as people with racial histories.

There is no racial or religious prejudice among people in the theater. The only prejudice is against bad actors, especially successful ones.

It's hard to say when or if we will actually arrive at that place called 'post-racial', or, better yet, post-racism.

Evangelicals come from all ethnic and racial backgrounds, but nearly 90 percent of Americans who call themselves evangelicals are white.

The negro has maintained his racial purity by his well known habit of avoiding baths

Children's picture books are a unique record of social evolution: in gender roles and racial politics, as is much discussed, but also in fashion and interior design.

I'm not saying [racial profiling] doesn't happen; I'm saying I haven't experienced it.

Identity is an assemblage of constellations.

To the militant, identity is everything.

My whole identity comes from Pakistan.

My identity is in Christ, not in basketball.

It is of the highest importance to provide equal access to the labour market. Governments should act to establish equitable employment standards and penalise racial discrimination.

I'm doing stuff on Kaballah and Scientology and a little bit more racial stuff, for good measure.

A president can ask for reconciliation in the racial conflict that divides Americans. But reconciliation comes only from the hearts of people.

There's a feeling among white Americans that there's no such thing as racial harmony, no such thing as a positive, productive relationship with people of color.

The Constitution favors no racial group - no political or social group.

The saddest part of the human race is we're obsessed with this idea of 'us and them,' which is really a no-win situation, whether it's racial, cultural, religious or political.

If I were to wait only for roles that clarify my racial makeup, I'd be waiting for a very, very long time.

I think that society is aspiring towards racial indifference, but the reality of life is not that. And so when you meet someone, you can see their race - it's right there on their face - and I feel like it's interesting.

Nowadays, with much more racial and ethnic mixing, we are seeing serial killers murdering a variety of victims; whoever comes along will most likely do.

Attempts to minimize the deep racial wounds in our history only set our society as a whole back.

With so much racial tension and issues between the police and black and minority ethnic groups, there needs to be more in-depth conversations if we're going to fix anything.

If we stay focused on data and the real issues, we can tailor our inventions to enhance public health and safety while decreasing the likelihood of racial discrimination.

The point I was making was not that Grandmother harbors any racial animosity. She doesn't. But she is a typical white person.

I believe that the racial injustice which existed such a short time ago probably would have persisted longer if the color barrier had not been broken in baseball.

We must center restaurants, bodegas, and other food businesses as critical food infrastructure for racial and economic justice.

Racial distinctions should not be rejected; they should be embraced.

Art is universal. When works of art become classics, it is because they transcend geographical boundaries, racial barriers and time.

One doesn't want one's identity coerced.

Time is the enemy of identity

My music is about identity.

During the worst days of apartheid, we turned to the church for hope and courage as we fought a righteous struggle for a democratic, non-racial, non-sexist, just, and prosperous South Africa.

My book had a universal theme. It's not a "racial" novel. It portrays an aspect of civilization, not necessarily Southern civilization.

American history and the history of baseball are bound up together: our racial politics can be described and traced through it.

They were concerned about the racial issue. They thought it was not a safe issue to go Asian, unfortunately.

Until we get rid of racial bias, sexism, homophobia in society, it will exist in all walks of society.

It is with complete allegiance to the cause of racial and social justice and the NAACP that I step aside from the Presidency and pass the baton to my Vice President, Naima Quarles-Burnley.

The things I encounter that I call elves or gnomes, it's just a gloss. I mean, they're small, and they have the archetype. They're more like leprechauns, and this maybe raises a racial issue.

Most so-called 'black' people do not feel themselves at liberty to simply turn off or ignore their allotted racial designation, whether they would like to or not.

Once you begin to explain or excuse all events on racial grounds, you begin to indulge in the perilous mythology of race.

Without style, there can be no identity.

Today in America we are no more 'post-racial' than we are 'post-partisan.' We have a long way to go.

I have a perhaps naive point of view informed by my own kind of snowflake-in-the-unique-sense rather than the political sense, personal story. I mean I feel like my experiences are so hard to map onto any kind of generalized identity. For example, I'm a black person, but I come from a very particular black experience which is not unlike the experience of the Barack Obama. I have an African mother and a white father and I feel like I have a different experience of being a black person as a result of that identity than someone who is from the descendants of slaves.

I would point out that Japan's proposal at the Versailles Peace Conference on the principle of racial equality was rejected by delegates such as those from Britain and the United States.

Of strong importance to me is the defense of minority rights, not just racial minorities, but ideological and religious minorities.