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. – Richard Roundtree
Racial segregation in the South not only separated the races, but it separated the South from the rest of the country. – Robert Dallek
When I played, I received racial abuse but I was just one of a few black players and we weren’t backed up by the authorities. – Ruud Gullit
It’s hard enough to be a middle-school kid, because you’re dealing with so many facets of your identity – you’re changing socially, you’re changing physically, you’re changing emotionally, everything is in flux, and to put race on top of that as well and have to figure out your racial identity is extremely hard. – Rick Riordan
As important as the presidency is, that’s not the only thing to take a look at in determining the racial health of the United States. – Randall Kennedy
A president can ask for reconciliation in the racial conflict that divides Americans. But reconciliation comes only from the hearts of people. – Richard M. Nixon
I didn’t really want to be a teacher, but there was nothing else I could be. Most of those who went to the university became teachers. It was just the racial restriction on Africans. – Oliver Tambo
Racial relations in this country are plummeting. Racial strife is rising. All the while, Obama is out there talking about unity and bringing us together. – Rush Limbaugh
I was born in Columbia in 1954, the year the Supreme Court invalidated racial segregation in public schools. I visited frequently but did not live there. – Randall Kennedy
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. – Pat Brown
All right-wing antigovernment rage in America bears a racial component, because liberalism is understood, consciously or unconsciously, as the ideology that steals from hard-working, taxpaying whites and gives the spoils to indolent, grasping blacks. – Rick Perlstein
This whole notion of a post racial America was nonsense from the very beginning. It was a bad idea, a bad notion, a bad formulation when it was first raised. – Tavis Smiley
The difference with Cleveland is that the racial tension was not a casual taste of it. It was outlandish. – Terrence Howard
The argument on the other side of special rights is completely bogus. It’s bogus because you could make exactly the same claim about racial or ethnic or religious minorities. – Tom Allen
I travel to Chicago a lot. And I’ve followed Obama through his Senate race and beyond. I found him to be an exceptional candidate who was able to transcend ethnic and racial lines. – Sal Albanese
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. – Tariq Ramadan
I never ceased to be surprised when southern whites, at their homes or clubs, told racial jokes and spoke so derogatorily of blacks while longtime servants, for whom they quite clearly had some affection, were well within earshot. – Walter Cronkite
When you allow racial disparity and institutional inequity to affect one part of the country, eventually it’s coming back to get everyone. – Tim Wise
If genetic memory or racial memory persists, is it possible that individual memory also exists from previous lives? – Taylor Caldwell
Vietnamese must be made to feel that they are racial inferiors with no right to national identity. – Wilfred Burchett