Top 1200 Racial Profiling Quotes & Sayings - Page 6

Modern political liberalism, particularly its racial orthodoxy, is the science of excuse-making, the training of black minds for failure.

To believe that the United States is post-racial requires an almost incomprehensible inability or unwillingness to stare truth in the face.

Music absolutely played a massive role in bridging many gaps in the racial divides I would encounter.

You can be a good person without any racial intent and still want to keep the flag. That's what I learned in my time in the south.

He wasn't someone fighting for racial equality. He was the leader of a violent, Communist revolution that has nearly succeeded in all of its grisly horror.

The main thing people took from 'Night of the Living Dead' was that it was a racial statement movie, and that was completely unintended.

Now is the time to lift our national policy from the quicksand of racial injustice to the solid rock of human dignity.

America has a strange relationship with its racial memory. Death has always been a constant companion of black people.

By the time I was at college, I became very alert to the question of racial discrimination, and I remember one of my first writing attempts had to do with a lynching.

We expect that 25 years from now, the use of racial preferences will no longer be necessary to further the interest approved today.

Is a civilization worth the name, which requires, for its existence the very doubtful prop of a racial legislation and a lynch law?

It would be really dangerous for us to assume that Christian hip-hop's popularity equals racial unity.

As we rise higher in the understanding of ourselves, the national and racial dissonances will be forgotten in the universal rhythms of Truth and Love.

It's not surprising to me that in a country born of racial genocide, the issue of race is still an open wound on the American soul. We haven't dealt with it.

All were artists, playing foolish, having fights and making love as if the rest of the world had no racial problems whatsoever.

I have the utmost respect and 'aloha' for black people - who have already suffered so much due to racial discrimination and acts of hatred.

When you allow racial disparity and institutional inequity to affect one part of the country, eventually it's coming back to get everyone.

Racial segregation must be seen for what it is, and that is an evil system, a new form of slavery covered up with certain niceties of complexity.

Music does communicate across language and racial and religious and philosophical barriers. It is one of the most distilled forms of human emotions.

The eradication of racial and religious prejudice in the United States - and in the rest of the world as well - is a long-term process.

In spite of what some people claim, we are not in a post-racial era. I think it's still an important issue to bring up.

Obama's ascendancy unhinged the radical right, offering a unified target to competing camps of racial, nativist and religious animus.

Until racial justice and freedom is a reality in this land, our union will remain profoundly imperfect.

Racial prejudice boils down to the deeply anti-American message that some people are born to fail.

Trans women of color dangerously fall in between the cracks of racial justice, feminist and LGbt movements.

There are many pointers in the Bible concerning the rightness, the goodness, the beauty, the justice, the preciousness of racial harmony and diversity.

Racial politics in Chicago has a long history of being intertwined with the mayor's race, but I'd like to think we're past much of that.

Happily, the days when overt racial discrimination and segregation were championed by social conservatives are long past.

The default of our society is the reproduction of racial inequality. I mean, that's what it does; that's what it's been doing for hundreds of years.

The history of racial violence in our country is both omnipresent and unspoken. It is a smog that surrounds us that few will admit is there.

There is no such thing as talking about class without there being implications of the racial history of the United States. You just can't do it.

People try to start things with me because of who I am, and I know that means I have to stay away. Its definitely racial.

Costs are incurred whenever any group is treated as lesser or the other, whether they are women, racial, or religious minorities, or the LGBT.

I don't know if it's a racial thing or not, but it's hard for the Roundtrees to talk about health issues. People have to get over all that stuff.

We're all burdened by our history of racial inequality. It's created a kind of smog that we all breathe in, and it has prevented us from being healthy.

In the Caribbean islands, especially in Jamaica, have I found a country similar to South Africa plus the racial freedom I had sought so long.

At the heart of the problem is the fact that the United States is a racially divided nation where extreme racial inequalities continue to persist.

The risk of racial prejudice infecting a capital sentencing proceeding is especially serious in light of the complete finality of the death sentence.

In commendably seeking to protect freedom of speech, we must not lower our defences against the evil of racial and religious intolerance.

We've done a very poor job at really reflecting on our legacy of racial inequality... You see it in the South, but it's everywhere.

My work cuts through racial, class, geographic, and ethnic separations to directly connect to the heart, mind, and emotion with people.

Sport can create hope, where once there was only despair. It is more powerful than governments in breaking down racial barriers.

Believing that no one is better than the other. You know I grew up in the South. My senior year there was a very big racial tension.

There has been some snobbishness, particularly among the much older generation. There's class and then there's the racial thing.

I've lived the American Dream and had a great life. Immigration and religion and racial tolerance are the foundation of this country.

As physics has proven, we're ultimately particulate matter, which means we are all one. That's why racial and gender bias is so ridiculous.

As we rise higher in the understanding of ourselves, the national and racial dissonances will be forgotten in the universal rhythms of Truth and Love

In a society in which equality is a fact, not merely a word, words of racial or sexual assault and humiliation will be nonsense syllables.

If my day, week, or year is going badly, I need not ask of each negative episode or situation whether it has racial overtones.

If you tap people's racial anxieties, you're not going to get them to be able to hear any of your facts.

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.

The symbolic value of having an African-American president has certainly eased some racial tensions in America, but they're not gone.

We have to deconstruct the idea of racial superiority. We have had it for hundreds of years so it is not going to happen overnight but we have to tackle it in the right way.

immigration today is a racial issue. It is one which sees masses of non-whites from around the globe immigrating to white countries.

As described in 'The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness,' the cyclical rebirth of caste in America is a recurring racial nightmare.

Racial prejudice, anti-Semitism, or hatred of anyone with different beliefs has no place in the human mind or heart.

The idea of the mulatto has been a gathering point for a wide variety of racial prejudices, fears, myths, and speculations.

Racial discrimination, South Africa's economic power, its oppression and exploitation of all the black peoples, are part and parcel of the same thing.

I’m not for profiling people on the color of their skin or on their religion. But I would take into account where they've been traveling and perhaps you might indirectly have to take into account whether or not they've been going to radical political speeches by religious leaders. It wouldn't be that they are Islamic. But if someone is attending speeches from someone who is promoting the violent overthrow of our government, that’s really an offense that we should be going after. They should be deported or put in prison.

I just want to do work that gets people excited and makes them feel things, no matter their economic or racial background.