Milo Yiannopoulos Quotes

In the white community, the path to a more perfect union means acknowledging that what ails the African-American community does not just exist in the minds of black people; that the legacy of discrimination - and current incidents of discrimination, while less overt than in the past - are real and must be addressed.

Black people cannot look to government to solve their problems.

There is no more apartheid in South Africa than in the United States.

Blacks' problems lie not in the heads of white people but rather in the wasted and incompletely fulfilled lives of too many black people.

It's not the people in the South who create racial problems - it's the people who are governing.

The black community is broken up in general.

Some people think racism has dissipated or no longer exists. But it's hidden in more strategic places.

Systemic racism is something that diminishes all of us. Of course its worst effects are for its victims, but our entire country is held back through the inequality and the mistrust that it creates.

However, while we should certainly celebrate the demise of overt official racism, we must also critically examine where we are at this historical moment, recognize the many challenges ahead and reaffirm our commitment to making Brown v. Board a reality.

Speaking as a black person, welfare is the worst thing that's ever happened to us.

It's almost like a lot of black people in America, a lot of young black men, are born with this cloud over their heads. It's their penitentiary cloud, this philosophy we all have, that it's harder for us.

Though this nation has proudly thought of itself as an ethnic melting pot, in things racial we have always been and continue to be, in too many ways, essentially a nation of cowards.

There is nothing of any consequence in education, in the economy, in city planning, in social policy that does not concern black people.

I was born in Jackson, Mississippi, in 1969, in a time and place where no one was saying, 'Look how far we've come,' because we hadn't come very far, to say the least. Although Jackson's population was half white and half black, I didn't have a single black friend or a black neighbor or even a black person in my school.

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

Racism cannot be cured solely by attacking some of the results it produces, like discrimination in housing or in education.

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.

I had always been interested in race and racial justice, but mostly it was with my nose pressed up against the glass, looking at the South from a long way away.

There are plenty of African-Americans in this country - and I would say this goes right up to the White House - who are not by any means poor, but are very much afflicted by white supremacy.

This Government was made by our fathers on the white basis ... made by white men for the benefit of white men and their posterity forever.’

Negro life in Washington is a promise rather than a fulfillment.

America is yours [Whites] today because of crime and violence.

The American economy, the American society, the American unconscious are all racist.

… white racism is essentially responsible for the explosive mixture (of private discrimination and segregation) that has been accumulating in our cities since the end of World War II.

This nation’s racial history still casts its long shadow upon us.