Mike Gallagher Quotes

The only difference between me and those other great Yankees is my skin color.

Baby, black promoters oppressed me before white promoters ever got hold of me. Don't talk skin to me.

In the South, there is more overt racism. It's more willfully ignorant and brazen. But it's not as if by moving I'm going to be able to escape institutionalized racism. It's not as though my life won't be twisted and impacted by racism anymore. It will.

As far back as I can remember, I knew there was something wrong with our way of life when people could be mistreated because of the color of their skin.

I don't want my daughter to ever feel that she can't do something because of her skin colour.

I know what it's like to be denied opportunity based on the nature of your skin.

The reality is we have allowed systemic racism to continue through all these years.

I don't think many people understand what racism is. The intellectuals use it like toilet paper; it's something they can use. It's not something they live.

If you are white, racism is too easily ignored and forgiven, regarded as of burning concern only to the ethnic minorities, and therefore of relatively marginal significance.

There's no such thing as reverse racism.

Even though my mother had told me growing up that, 'If you win, nobody cares what color you are,' that wasn't necessarily true in the N.F.L.

Barack Obama happens to be the first African-American, and so criticism of him is and always was gonna be racism, and therefore not permitted.

I'd heard he was good, and what the hell sense does it make not to hire somebody because of their color?

As an African-American, I know all too well the negative thoughts and feelings hatred and bigotry cause.

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

It's hard to say when or if we will actually arrive at that place called 'post-racial', or, better yet, post-racism.

Ours has not been a racially democratic society for 300 years.

If you're white, You're all right. If you're brown, Stick around. But if you're black, Get back, get back.

Thought the colored man is no longer subject to be bought and sold, he is still surrounded by an adverse sentiment which fetters all his movements. In his downward course he meets with no resistance, but his course upward is resisted at every step of his progress.

Segregation results inevitably in discrimination and inferior treatment

Racism is not merely a simplistic hatred. It is, more often broad sympathy toward some and broader skepticism toward others. Black America ever lives under that skeptical eye.

Institutionalized racism is an imaginary enemy.

There's a little racism out here, always was, and always will be.

Some white people are privileged, some aren't. Some black people are, some aren't. It's strikes me as, by definition, a racist attack in that it's making a generalization - a negative one - based on skin color.

Racism exists everywhere. So when people act surprised about racism, I'm the one that's surprised.