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The road to true racial justice has proved, as we always knew it would, a long and arduous distance we have travelled.

Archbishop Of Canterbury

There is a lot of racial prejudice in northwest Ohio, in this area.

Don Barnett

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

Byron R. White

I've never seen this city as divided as it is now. The racial politics are being played. This is serious business. There are people who feel that these people are being put through a lot and they haven't been charged with anything.

Joyce Foreman

I took that as a racial connotation, to be honest with you.

Linford Christie

It can be taken as that `we're not functioning as boards of racial purity with a board of white guys that sit around and decide who's an Indian and who's not.'

Ward Churchill

It's racial. I figured they were going to get away with it because they were white and it is at Duke. They're going to protect Duke and those players, plus they have the money to do so. If this was at this campus, we would've been locked up.

Mike Jones

Ending racial discrimination in jury selection can be accomplished only by eliminating peremptory challenges entirely.

Thurgood Marshall

Locally there was never even a mention or a breath of concern that this was a racial issue nor a status issue.

Julia Renfro

Has a zero-tolerance policy for any racial or ethnic discrimination or discrimination of any kind.

Fisher Deberry

Fijians do not seek permanency as an expression of racial superiority. Their motivation is to ensure the survival of a small and distinct race.

Laisenia Qarase

Multinational corporations do control. They control the politicians. They control the media. They control the pattern of consumption, entertainment, thinking. They're destroying the planet and laying the foundation for violent outbursts and racial division.

Jerry Brown

My answer to the racial problem in America is to not deal with it at all. The founding fathers dealt with it when they made the Constitution.

James Meredith

The car was in compliance. There was no speeding or improper passing or whatever they make up out there. It is racial profiling. There is no doubt.

Brandon Cameron

Pilate's Bowl. He said they had washed their hands of responsibility for racial justice in Birmingham.

Jonathan Bass

I still think people do have racial hang-ups, but I think one of the reasons I can joke about it is people are shedding those racial hatreds.

Dave Chappelle

Racial and denominational schools impart to the membership of their communities something which the general educational institution is wholly unable to inculcate.

Kelly Miller

Racial discrimination reared its ugly head. Landlords refused to show their properties to minorities.

Carl Harris

It's like if you asked people around the country if they had racial bias. There's a difference between what people say and what actually happens.

Kelly Brownell

My primary concern is racial profiling.

Rep. Susan Bucher

It's really not about Cynthia McKinney. It's about African-Americans in America who are victims of racial profiling every day.

Tyrone Brooks

If this becomes a permanent barrier to employment and volunteering because of the use of this technology, then you're locking in the racial discrimination already in the system and multiplying its effect to a devastating degree.

Ira Glasser

I would like to see more dialogue across racial lines, more diversity in the core curriculum, different faces at the policy-making table, and more people of color in higher positions of the administration. I would like to see us truly be a multicultural campus.

Dan Bunch

You don't want to be red-flagged for racial profiling. So you back away. The result of this is less effective policing. And this is what we see resulting from this.

Heather Macdonald

The whole racial thing has been downplayed, but that is what it was. It seems that everyone wants to sweep the thing under the rug.

Forrest Pearson

Although it is a coincidence that the tenth anniversary of Racial Justice Sunday falls on Sept. 11, it is very appropriate.

Pat White

I imagine Marshall's contributions to racial justice are a large part of the move to honor him.

Jerome Hames

Sexual, racial, gender violence and other forms of discrimination and violence in a culture cannot be eliminated without changing culture.

Charlotte Bunch

Justice O'Connor has been the key vote in everything from campaign finance to the meaning of the Voting Rights Act to racial gerrymandering to Bush v. Gore.

Richard Hasen

People have become more cynical about believing the stories because there have been these racial hoaxes in recent memory and because the media have reported on it.

Frankie Bailey

The gap is there. Where it really compounds is where there is a racial and a gender gap. That's what you see for African-American and Latino males. It's a real challenge for us.

Gregory Thornton

We are all descendants of Adam, and we are all products of racial miscegenation.

Lester B. Pearson

I didn't know that was a racial epithet. I thought it was a geographical designation.

Will Durst

They wouldn't meet our standards for what we publish in the paper. We have standards about language, religious sensitivity, racial sensitivity and general good taste.

Leonard Downie

They [black and white musicians] jived between each other. All were artists, playing foolish, having fights and making love as if the rest of the world had no racial problems whatsoever.

Chuck Berry

I am concerned about the racial component as it relates to the media, but I also go a step further and I say to my people stop putting yourself into position where people can label you like that.

Robert Fowler

We must promote patriotism, but we can never again allow South African children to be forced to submit to the degrading dogma of racial nationalism.

Tony Leon

The issue to me has always been a racial issue.

Linda Johnson

My heart goes out to these police officers. They're fighting public apathy, racial division and a dysfunctional court system. They work their hearts out and nothing ever happens to these cases.

Peter Scharf

We were protesting black racial violence against white people in that neighborhood.

Bob White

These companies just don't understand that reparations activists are not after apologies and racial reconciliation. They want money.

John Carlisle

Racial polarization is very high over this commission plan and so any statement on the part of the mayor, any ordinance passed by the council is going to be interpreted, 'is this for me or is this against me' and it's going to be interpreted in a racial way by many people.

Susan Howell

As more and more middle class African-Americans are moving to areas that are traditionally all-white, we're starting to see a lot of racial bias incidents like this occur.

Maryanne Lee

That neighborhood has never been known for racial tensions.

Robert McCloskey

We're dealing with a very broad umbrella, ... Not only are we trying to attract different racial groups, but different sexual orientations, international students and students with disabilities.

Christine Taylor

It's a legacy of segregation. Racial covenants are just a sentence in a long list of documents. It's kind of a standard language.

Jim Draeger

This is not a racial issue and should not be presented as such. The principle is legal versus illegal status.

Rep. Becky Hutchins

It was a most unfortunate racial slur. There can be no excuse for what was said. Dave Lenihan has been let go. ... There is enough hate. We certainly are not going to fan those flames. That is not what we're about.

Tim Dorsey

We have a very rich heritage here of togetherness and racial harmony. There are a lot of good things that can be said about the village of New Haven ... and I'm not about to forget about that and spit in the faces of the people that built this community.

George Drake

The fact is that no student should be told that he or she is barred from participating in a program simply because of their racial ethnicity. Our position has always been that this is illegal.

Roger Clegg

We are now paying the price. This should not be seen as a racial argument, but as a simple truth of management.

Pieter Mulder

There are elements in there which make it very clear they are talking about Latinos. The policy really screams of racial profiling and discrimination from start to end.

John Trasviña

Blues, spirituals, and folk tales recounted from mouth to mouth . . . all these formed the channels through which the racial wisdom flowed.

Richard Wright

We clearly do live in a society that has a persistent pattern of racial disparity and I think most people would agree that that has something to do with our history.

James Campbell

These kids have grown up together, and they see that all races get along well together. We don't see any black on white, white on black, Hispanic on black. Most of ours is them fighting each other -- black on black, white on white, Hispanic on Hispanic -- more than we have any other. We don't have a lot of racial issues here.

Larry Frazier

I don't think racial motivation has anything to do with it.

Robert Cardwell

We all have histories. A lot of people think that the mixing of racial groups is a relatively new thing, but what we have found in doing our research is that we are all closely related. The African and Native American histories are left out of conventional histories.

David Butcher

It shows a lack of respect to talk like this but particularly offensive in a racial context.

Jim Harrington

It's not a racial issue. If it were a racial issue I would have kept them in private school which wasn't providing a decent education either so it has nothing to do with race.

Bill Knox

An atmosphere of racial tension in the jury room prevented meaningful deliberations from taking place.

Susan Roberts

The Communist Workers Party had a racial and economic analysis that was all too true. We've seen this with what has happened with Hurricane Katrina.

Joyce Johnson

There is definitely some racial profiling. But we need to ensure that it is done for the right reasons to ensure the security of people. It is absolutely imperative that this is not abused.

Keith Vaz

I don't even like to talk about this business about an ethnic and racial balancing act. I think it's a bunch of hokum. What people are concerned about is who is going to help this city move forward in a manner that benefits their families. They don't care about Adolfo being Hispanic, although that's obvious. They want to know if I will do a good job.

Adolfo Carrión Jr

In some ways, this is a critical election. A different paradigm of governing is emerging. We may be moving into this post-racial, post-ideological politics. I think it's much more a competency-based, performance-based politics.

Douglas Muzzio

It must be shown that something that is already criminal was motivated by bigotry or bias because of, in this case, racial factors.

David Waren

In the Bakke decision, the Powell opinion recognized that it's important to think in terms of racial diversity and ethnic diversity.

Lee Bollinger

The injury is bad, but it's not a life-altering thing. The whole case was overblown with the racial thing.

Keith Pope

The past and the present look a whole lot alike in the prevalence of racial discrimination in voting. It was shocking to ... not only see the continuing reality of racial discrimination in voting but to see how pervasive these problems are nationwide.

Barbara Arnwine

The guidelines acknowledge racial profiling as a national concern but do nothing to stop it. The new policy guidelines provide no rights or remedies.

Laura Murphy

[Behavior detection] is a code word for targeting brown-skinned males between ages 17 and 45 years. It's not only racial profiling, it's ethnic profiling.

Timothy Sparapani

He criticized baseball's racial policies after he stopped playing, especially how blacks were forced to travel. He even criticized some black players for not standing up for their rights.

Robert Hayden

These are people who come from different racial backgrounds and different social classes. They are going to have to work really hard to bridge that gap.

Robert Atwell

I never had a racial term thrown to me the whole time I was at Ole Miss. We were progressing.

Ben Williams

What Makes Racial Diversity Work in Higher Education.

American Council

[Such is] a deceptive cloak of racial consensus, ... The Pitfalls of Racial Reasoning.

Cornel West

The Millions More Movement represents so much of what ALC and other organizations on campus are about - working towards racial justice.

Omolara Bewaji

It's a fairly large difference, particularly when you consider that unlike differences across racial and ethnic groups, boys and girls are raised in the same households, so it's not so easy to explain the differences by their community, or their income level.

Jay Greene

Any incident of racial discrimination that occurs, whether you're a child or an adult, is always hurtful and scary.

Maryanne Lee

It deals with so many different aspects of living in South Africa: the racial issues of South Africans and Asians; with poverty; with the reality of children orphaned by AIDS; the transition from village life to city life.

Laura Thielen

We have to change our behavior, ... We drink too much, smoke too much, eat the wrong foods and don't exercise. We can change racial disparities by changing our behavior.

Robert Atwell

If there was a race card played, it was played out in the north woods. There is no question that race and racial prejudice played a role in the events.

Steve Kohn

This issue has brought to light the racial issues of campus that have been in existence since before I came to campus. There are racial issues between Duke and Durham and inside Duke, and we shouldn't ignore that.

Tracy Egharevba

[Colonization] was supposed to be sort of a remedy for slavery and racial inequality in the country.

Claude Clegg

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

James Earl Jones

When someone in law enforcement who is willing to speak the truth about racial profiling gets demoted for it, that's absolutely chilling. To manage any problem, we must first measure it.

Hilary Shelton

It makes no sense if the NCAA really wants to cease the racial stereotyping inherent in the use of Native Americans as sports mascots.

Stephen Kaufman

Rev. Sharpton, the fact of the matter is we can always blow up a racial debate and make people mad at each other.

Carol Moseley Braun

He always has to get into racial discussions or the 'poor me' discussions. He can't accept the way things are and go forward with his life. He has to keep stirring up the dirty water.

Bill Myers

Many in our community have to live in fear of both the cops and the robbers. What concrete steps would you take to end police brutality and racial profiling?

Al Sharpton

The ills of discrimination are still with us. We have to continue the tenacity and vigilance of the 1960s. Racial understanding is not something we find; it's something we create.

Thomas Cole

Do you really believe that racial and denominational reconciliation are possible, ... I do. That's why I'm part of Mission Mississippi Delta.

Robert Pitts

We've got it all — racial diversity, ethnic diversity, economic diversity, geographical diversity.

Jim Spearman

From the very beginning, this redistricting has been about racial balance. Should children be assigned to schools based on skin color? That decision was made early on in this process.

Lindsey Tippins

We decided it did not meet our longstanding policy of not publishing words or imagery that are grossly offensive to religious, racial, or ethnic groups. It's a judgment we face daily and have made many times before.

Martin Baron

There's underlying racial tension in the jail, but no major incidents.

Tim Bedwell

It's the racial aspect of this that will make this tough for her. The public perception is that this is a one-side investigation, and that will detract from her efforts to clean things up. There's merit to many of her positions, and she's on track. But she's always derailed by the city's polarization.

Robert Ashley

It was kind of a lot to take in, but it was extremely interesting. It makes you think about how many problems there really are with racial identity. It opens your eyes and changes your perspective of the world and what you thought was normal.

Amy Williams

There is no question that race and racial prejudice played a part in the interplay between these individuals.

Steve Kohn

It is essential that those in charge of the football industry realize that addressing racial equality is a necessity, not an option.

Trevor Phillips

Exaggerated self-importance is deemed an individual fault, but a racial virtue.

Kelly Miller

Our grandparents' home had racial slander and cursing on the garage door, and on the vehicle.

Larry Hardiman

But I do feel as a student at Duke that this incident has brought to light the racial issues of campus that have been in existence before I came onto campus. We have to find a way to integrate race relations, different cultures, and to include tolerance in the Duke code.

Tracy Egharevba

It crosses all racial and gender and age boundaries, which I think is fantastic.

Genevieve Gorder

All men are homosexual, some turn straight. It must be very odd to be a straight man because your sexuality is hopelessly defensive. It's like an ideal of racial purity.

Derek Jarman

Mississippi, in trying to promote racial harmony, is on the right track at the right station doing the right thing.

Charles Pickering

If (the victim) was physically assaulted and there were any indications racial slurs were used, or that they had plotted and intended to harm him, this would constitute a hate crime.

Stephen Thom

Disparities in the health care delivered to racial and ethnic minorities are real and are associated with worse outcomes in many cases, which is unacceptable.

Alan Nelson

We don't and shouldn't catalogue by race. The term is racial profiling and I thought we were trying to get away from that.

John Czwartacki

Racial discrimination does not always violate public policy.

Trent Lott

What Katrina did was unmask many of the deep social, economic and racial divisions we have in this city. Now the issue of race is not just a political issue but an issue of which neighborhood is going to be rebuilt.

Silas Lee

It's really interesting because if you ask people, most people would say (racial integration of churches) is a great thing.

Michael Emerson

There were racial, economic and social divisions - strains that were very real and very important. [The moon landing] was the culmination of forces that brought everyone together to pursue a common goal.

Allan Needell

I'm very concerned about the racial aspects of the current (redistricting) map.

Judson Hill

More clear in dissociating myself from anti-Catholic sentiments and racial prejudice.

Bob Jones

The Multiethnic Cohort offers clues in understanding the racial and ethnic differences in cancer incident rates.

Christopher Haiman

It was a very acute racial moment. The trial about a black man killing a white woman exacerbated the anger of the angry white man and made the black community feel like they had to defend themselves.

Salim Muwakkil

We are the primary beneficiaries of racial privilege. It means something for a group of white people to speak out against racism and actively fight it.

Erica Mercker

It's important for me to ... understand that I benefit from racial privilege. If I'm not honest with that then I'm not being honest with myself.

Erica Mercker

There are people in your classes who are capable of that kind of thing? I don't know if this school is ready to deal with the racial issues.

Erica Harper

It has to be a racial issue, because a lot of people are afraid of cultural issues.

Elias Bermudez

We brought the motion to dismiss because we believe there's racial discrimination in the charging process. They have very little evidence to even have probable cause.

Earl Gray