Race In America Quotes

• Ninguna raza puede prosperar hasta que aprenda que hay tanta dignidad en labrar un campo como en escribir un poema.

  Booker T. Washington

  Inspirational, Work, Writing

  Address at Atlanta International Exposition, Atlanta, Ga., 18 Sept. 1895

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• A lot of people want to change the world, but only a few people want to change themselves. When it comes to the issue of race in America, we have to do both.

  Bill Bradley

  America, Issues, Race

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• We treat racism in this country like it's a style that America went through. Like flared legs and lava lamps. Oh, that crazy thing we did. We were hanging black people. We treat it like a fad instead of a disease that eradicates millions of people. You've got to get it at a lab, and study it, and see its origins, and see what it's immune to and what breaks it down.

  Chris Rock

  Country, Crazy, America

  Entrevista con Frank Rich, www.vulture.com. 30 de noviembre de 2014.

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• Motherfuckers will read a book that’s one third Elvish, but put two sentences in Spanish and they [white people] think we’re taking over.

  Junot Díaz

  Libro, Pensamiento, Dos

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• Yeah, I love being famous. It's almost like being white, y'know?

  Chris Rock

  Divertido, Humor, Blanco

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• Lo que necesitamos no es una historia de razas o naciones seleccionadas, sino la historia del mundo libre de prejuicios nacionales, raciales y religiosos.

  Carter G. Woodson

  Religión, Odio, Raza

  Carter G. Woodson (2008). "Negro Makers of History", p.20, Wildside Press LLC

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• Desde luego, no buscaba ningún título, de la forma en que una universidad confiere un símbolo de estatus a sus estudiantes. Mi educación casera me proporcionaba, con cada libro adicional que leía, un poco más de sensibilidad hacia la sordera, la mudez y la ceguera que afligían a la raza negra en América. No hace mucho, un escritor inglés me telefoneó, haciéndome preguntas. Una era: "¿Cuál es tu alma mater?". Le respondí: "Libros.

  Alex Haley

  Libro, Universidad, Preguntas

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• Podría decirse que el paralelismo más importante entre el encarcelamiento masivo y Jim Crow es que ambos han servido para definir el significado y la importancia de la raza en Estados Unidos. De hecho, una función primordial de cualquier sistema de castas raciales es definir el significado de la raza en su época. La esclavitud definió lo que significaba ser negro (un esclavo), y Jim Crow definió lo que significaba ser negro (un ciudadano de segunda clase). Hoy en día, el encarcelamiento masivo define el significado de la negritud en Estados Unidos: los negros, especialmente los hombres negros, son delincuentes. Eso es lo que significa ser negro.

  Michelle Alexander

  Media, Hombres, América

  "El nuevo Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness". Libro de Michelle Alexander, www.huffingtonpost.com. 5 de enero de 2010.

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• Well, the white race in America is the same way. As individuals it is impossible for them to escape the collective crime committed against the Negroes in this country, collectively.

  Malcolm X

  Country, Race, White

  Entrevista con Robert Penn Warren, whospeaks.library.vanderbilt.edu. 2 de junio de 1964.

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• To take on the question of race in America and believe that you could transform this country so that it would actually be a place that was welcoming for everyone that was here, including dealing with the history of slavery and the kind of oppression this country is based on, that's an amazing moment to begin to find your own political ideals.

  Amber Hollibaugh

  País, Creer, Raza

  Fuente: www.truth-out.org

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• How you start is important, very important, but in the end it is how you finish that counts. It is easier to be a self-starter than a self-finisher. The victor in the race is not the one who dashes off swiftest but the one who leads at the finish. In the race for success, speed is less important than stamina. The sticker outlasts the sprinter in life's race. In America we breed many hares but not so many tortoises.

  B. C. Forbes

  Perseverance, Self, America

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• Emancipation came to the colored race in America as a war measure. It was an act of military necessity. Manifestly it would have come without war, in the slower process of humanitarian reform and social enlightenment.

  Wendell Willkie

  Military, War, Race

  Wendell L. Willkie (1943). “Prefaces TO PEACE”

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• The question 'Why white kids love hip-hop?' forces us immediately to deal with the historical weight of race in America. On the surface people see hip-hop and race as nothing new. I think the ways young white Americans are engaging hip-hop suggest something more.

  Bakari Kitwana

  Niños, Pensamiento, Raza

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• I said that when I looked at photographs of the firefighters who went into the Twin Towers, their faces looked to me like Irish faces. I hadn't yet learnt how careful outsiders have to be when talking about race in America, and I'd put my foot in it. Someone stood up and said aggressively, 'What do you mean by Irish faces?'

  Colm Toibin

  Mean, Talking, Feet

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• 'Get Out' takes on the task of exploring race in America, something that hasn't really been done within the genre since 'Night of the Living Dead' 47 years ago.

  Jordan Peele

  Night, Years, America

  Fuente: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• En nada fue la esclavitud tan salvaje e implacable como en su intento de destruir los instintos familiares de la raza negra en América. Los individuos, no las familias; los refugios, no los hogares; el pastoreo, no los matrimonios, fueron los pecados cardinales en ese sistema de horrores.

  Fannie Barrier Williams

  Family, Home, Race

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• I always tell young people in particular: Do not say that nothing's changed when it comes to race in America, unless you lived through being a black man in the 1950s or '60s or '70s.

  Barack Obama

  Men, Race, America

  "President Obama's WTF Episode Helped Marc Maron Set a New Record" by Matt Patches, www.esquire.com. June 23, 2015.

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• The paradox of race in America is that our common destiny is more pronounced and imperiled precisely when our divisions are deeper.

  Cornel West

  Destiny, Race, America

  Cornel West (2000). “Race Matters”, p.4, Beacon Press

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• Race in America is not a problem you can go over, or around or under. You've got to go through it.

  Mitch Landrieu

  Race, America, Problem

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• La discriminación positiva no va a ser la solución a largo plazo de los problemas raciales en Estados Unidos, porque, francamente, si el 50% de los niños afroamericanos o latinos abandonan la escuela secundaria, no importa lo que hagas en términos de discriminación positiva. Esos chicos no van a ir a la universidad.

  Barack Obama

  Escuela, Niños, Universidad

  "Late Edition" con Wolf Blitzer, edition.cnn.com. 27 th Of July de 2008.

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• I write about race in America in hopes of undermining the notion of race in America.

  Richard Rodríguez

  Writing, Race, America

  Richard Rodriguez (2003). “Brown: The Last Discovery of America”, p.8, Penguin

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• Ignorance of how we are shaped racially is the first sign of privilege. In other words. It is a privilege to ignore the consequences of race in America.

  Tim Wise

  Ignorance, Race, White Privilege

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• He tenido una docena de personas que me han dicho, quizá más, '¿Qué habría pasado si Michael Brown hubiera disparado y matado a Darren Wilson? ¿Crees que ahora estaría libre? ¿Crees que ya no habría sido acusado?". La gente simplemente ve este doble rasero manifiesto delante de ellos que viene en la larga línea de un montón de agravios que se han acumulado con el tiempo debido a la dinámica de Ferguson y, francamente, la dinámica de la raza en Estados Unidos en general.

  Chris Hayes

  Pensamiento, América, Raza

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