Tyrus Quotes

We would like to get to a point in our society where people really are colorblind and this message would not have to be told anymore. Unfortunately, we're not there yet.

The promise of Obama's presidency, in many people's minds, is partly that America will move toward becoming a post-racial society. It's pretty clear, though, that we aren't there yet.

The symbolic value of having an African-American president has certainly eased some racial tensions in America, but they're not gone.

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.

I believe that we have to be so race-conscious in this day and age.

Be nice to the whites, they need you to rediscover their humanity.

I am not prejudiced against the Negro. When I was governor, I did more to help the Negroes in our State than any previous Governor, and I think you can find Negro leaders in the State who will attest to this fact.

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

We will fight race destruction through thick and thin and never CO exist voluntarily with it.

I regard the Klan, the Anglo-Saxon clubs and White American societies, as far as the Negro is concerned, as better friends of the race than all other groups of hypocritical whites put together.

But suppose God is black? What if we go to Heaven and we, all our lives, have treated the Negro as an inferior, and God is there, and we look up and He is not white? What then is our response?

The true Islam has shown me that a blanket indictment of all white people is as wrong as when whites make blanket indictments against blacks.

We see through the eyes of children that they're not talking about race the way we grown folks are. They're not talking about color or how much melanin is in someone's skin.

I don't believe in blanket statements on race.

And my point was one I think that you'd agree with, which is there's no room in America for a black racist, a Latino racist, or a white racist, or an Asian racist, or a Native American racist. Now, we're either color blind or we're not color blind.

Of course, it's fun to play with Blacks.

The fact is that racism, despite all the doomsayers, has diminished.

Like my father, I don't want to see anyone mistreated, anything like that. I'm very racial-conscious because my father had a lot of, you know, challenges in the area of race. I'm very sensitive to that kind of issue.

There's nothing wrong with white if it's all right.

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...

The destinies of the two races, in this country, are indissolubly linked together, and the interests of both require that the common government of all shall not permit the seeds of race hate to be planted under sanction of law.

The issue of race could benefit from a period of benign neglect.

Race has no place in American life or law.

We believe in the separation of the races in all phases of life.

In order to get beyond racism, we must first take account of race.... And in order to treat some persons equally, we must treat them differently..