George C. Wallace Quotes

My belief system is that you laugh at racism, and that's how it goes away.

People have got to get together and work together. I'm tired of the kind of oppression that white people have inflicted on us and are still trying to inflict.

I hold that this government was established…for the benefit of white men and their prosperity forever, and should be administered by white men, and none others.

The only part of my mother's experience that still gets to me is the way she and people like her were looked down upon for asking America to be America, for asking for full and equal participation in our democracy.

The unified message in this fight against systemic racism and racial inequality is something that our entire Association is united to fight against.

I'm against an all-white anything or an all-black anything.

I knew being accepted was going to be hard, but I knew I was involved in a situation that was going to bring opportunities to other blacks.

Certainly we can end racism with love. We can demand that the federal government change its emphasis on racial distinction.

It's a real uphill challenge to battle the white-guyness.

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.

Of strong importance to me is the defense of minority rights, not just racial minorities, but ideological and religious minorities.

I have never been racist.

I tried to make the point to the [Nixon] White House that, as a party, we needed to demonstrate that we cared and were concerned about votes from African-Americans and Hispanics. I don't know where we lost track after Abraham Lincoln.

The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race

When I say there should not be a BET channel or a Black History Month, I'm saying we deserve more. I just hope people understand that I'm not judging; I'm coming from experience.

I wasn't burdened by a personal history of prejudice. It's part of why I thought Barack could win.

At one point, there wasn't a black quarterback in the NFL. When you start winning, then you start seeing more. Jumping up and down and screaming and calling people names is not going to change anything.

I think we can continue to do as much protesting as we want. Systemic racism needs to be changed from within.

We've come a long way from the days where there was state-enforced segregation. But we still have a way to go.

There is a movement we call Afro-Futurism, where we imagine a black way of life free of white supremacy and bigotry. 'Black Panther,' I think, is the first blockbuster film centered in the ethos of Afro-Futurism, where the writers and directors and makeup and wardrobe team all imagined a beautiful, thriving black Africa without colonialism.

I love when white people use their privilege to combat prejudice.

We want to see a world where black lives matter in order for us to get to a world where all of our humanity is respected.

I'm someone very interested in diversity, equity, social justice, and getting rid of white supremacy.

I believe we need to lay race theories to rest: Democracy - and identity - is difficult enough without 'scientific' obfuscation.

There's no such thing as racial, non-white supremacy.