Adam Hochschild Quotes

Racism really does exist.

There's racism everywhere.

I find that the prejudice in this country to color is very great, and I sometimes fear that it is on the increase.

I got kicked out of four high schools just because people took issue with the colour of my skin. As if I could help the colour I was born.

Racial prejudices are indication of a disturbed and potentially unstable society.

The horror of class stratification, racism, and prejudice is that some people begin to believe that the security of their families and communities depends on the oppression of others, that for some to have good lives there must be others whose lives are truncated and brutal.

Racial prejudice boils down to the deeply anti-American message that some people are born to fail.

racism is alive and doing too well in America.

The essence of American racism is disrespect.

If you're getting harassed, it's not helpful to know that racism has generally declined in America, when you're still experiencing it. That is a reality that we're still vulnerable to.

It's just amazing that there are so many prejudices even now.

I found this out over the years, that racism is a thinly veiled disguise over economics and money. It really is.

Colour is not the issue in America; class is.

America is still mostly xenophobic and racist. That's the nature of America, I think.

This is a racist country.

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.

Inequality is on the rise.

There will always be that dreadful monster prejudice to do extra battle against because of their color.

I don't think we should stop emphasizing race because I think, you know, race is still very, very important, and we have to recognize that and continue to introduce programs to address racial inequities. But we have to widen our vision and also address the growing problems of economic class.

Race prejudice is not only a shadow over the colored—it is a shadow over all of us.

We're not so much anti-black as we are pro-white.

The melting pot failed to function in one crucial area. Religions and nationalities, however different, generally learned to live together, even to grow together, in America. But color was something else. Reds were murdered like wild animals. Yellows were characterized as a peril and incarcerated en masse during World War II for no really good reason by our most liberal President. Browns have been abused as the new slave labor on farms. The blacks, who did not come here willingly, are now, more than a century after emancipation by Lincoln, still suffering a host of slavelike inequalities.

The negro, whom a million Americans died to free, is, in present bond and future promise still a slave, whipped by circumstance, trodden under foot by iron and ineradicable prejudice; shut out forever from the opportunities which are the heritage of liberty, and, holding in his black hand the hollow parchment of his franchise as a freeman, looks through a slave's eyes at the impassable barriers which imprison him forever within the progress and achievement of a dominant and all-conquering race.

Color had been made the mark of enslavement and was taken to be also the mark of inferiority; for prejudice does not reason, or it would not be prejudice

Integration in the fields of education, housing, transportation and public accommodations will be of limited extent and duration so long as fundamental economic inequality along racial lines persist.