Herschel Walker Quotes

I'll stop talking about race when people stop being racist.

Segregation was wrong when it was forced by white people, and I believe it is still wrong when it is requested by black people.

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.

People get bent out of shape about the fact that when I was a kid, you could not drink out of certain water fountains. Well, the water was the same.

It will have to be a universal movement, and that will never be... because the big-league game, as it is now, is overrun with Southern blood. These fellows would have to stop at the same hotels, eat in the same dining rooms, and sleep in the same train compartments with the colored players. There'd be trouble for sure.

If white America is ready to extend complete democratic rights to colored people, there will be no race, no racial tension and no racial prejudice on either side, but we can be sure that any movement 'back to normalcy' in race relations will be bitterly resisted by colored people. It is now up to white America to make its choice...

I want a fair housing bill. We’ve got to end this Goddamn discrimination against Negroes. Until people, whether they’re purple, brown, black, yellow, red, green, or whatever – live together, they’ll never know they have the same hopes for their children, the same fears, troubles, woes, ambitions.

Many persons who say that they favor economic, political, and educational equality for the Negro oppose such equality in practice for fear that it will lead to 'social equality,' by which most of them mean intermarriage.

To attempt to explain a system like segregation to a 6 year child is a very difficult thing.

Civil Rights is all right for you. You don’t have and Negroes in your district.

Antiracism is direct opposition to any idea that supposes one race is better than any other in any respect.

Racist means thinking more highly of another, being superior to another. I don't feel better or superior - white, black, yellow, all the same.

I feel like racism isn't over.

We want to be treated equally and not judged off our skin color.

Few whites are ready to actively promote civil rights for blacks.

Although his crusade in 1957 occurred at a time in our nation's history when race divided all, Reverend Graham refused to preach in segregated audiences.

If any man claims the Negro should be content... let him say he would willingly change the color of his skin and go to live in the Negro section of a large city. Then and only then has he a right to such a claim.

Segregation has no place in the education system.

If you're white and you're wrong, then you're wrong; if you're black and you're wrong, you're wrong. People are people. Black, blue, pink, green - God make no rules about color; only society make rules where my people suffer, and that why we must have redemption and redemption now.

I feel that there has been progress made since I was a boy on matters of race, but we have a long way to go.

What is our greatest enemy? Segregation.

I believe discrimination still exists in society and we must fight it in every form.

We can never completely fulfill the promise of this treasured republic if we are blinded by color.

I always enjoyed playing ball, and it didn't matter to me whether I played with white kids or black. I never understood why an issue was made of who I played with, and I never felt comfortable, when I grew up, telling other people how to act.

The MLK Shabbat Suppers focused on the theme of educational inequity, which Dr. King considered inextricably linked to the struggle for equality and justice.