Pete Buttigieg Quotes

I'm all for philosophical debates about race, but if you look at history, you see that the status quo has power when it's unchallenged. So these conversations about inequality are crucial.

The mess in the world is a strong driver because, at the end of the day, it's the increasing unacceptability of the divergences and rifts in the world economically, socially, politically, and culturally which lead everybody to say, 'We have to do something.'

Trump is not the problem. He is the symptom of the problem where Americans no longer believe that the system works for them.

History simmers beneath the surface in more communities than just Ferguson.

America has entered one of its periods of historic madness, but this is the worst I can remember.

By looking into more details of American history, we can make more sense of what's happening today.

I think we are dying in America, I think our democracy is over.

If America don't come around, we're gonna' burn it down.

I could have easily been a statistic. Growing up in Brooklyn, N.Y., it was easy - a little too easy - to get into trouble. Surrounded by poor schools, lack of resources, high unemployment rates, poverty, gangs and more, I watched as many of my peers fell victim to a vicious cycle of diminished opportunities and imprisonment.

I remember the day Richard Nixon won in 1968. That was a time that seemed certain to bring about long awaited seismic change in America. But events of tragic proportion took us on a turn. Bobby Kennedy and Martin Luther King, Jr. were suddenly dead.

If one wants to pinpoint the causes of the riots, it would be this permissive climate and the misguided compassion of public opinion.

Revolutions are not improvised. They are not made at will by individuals, and not even by the most powerful associations. They come about through force of circumstances, and are independent of any deliberate will or conspiracy.

The more revolutions occur, the less things change.

It is a wrong form of government we are living under, and we, the workers stand for the overthrow of the whole damnable institution.

We are still a nation deeply divided by race and class.

The Arab world’s wave of change was a century in the making, Why expect its effects to become clear in the space of months

They have raised ignorance to ideology and stupefied an entire political party. No more roguish and rowdy band of predators ever did more to demean and despoil the democracy on whose carcass they feed.

Trump's first statement as president, his inaugural address, was an unprecedented assault on American democracy and American values.

The principal challenge of the next phase of the Negro revolution is to make certain that equality of results will now follow. If we do not, there will be no social peace in the United States for generations.

I think that often in the United States we're very blind to the ways that history lives in the present.

Americans are losing faith in this country's ability to work for them.

In a sense, mass incarceration has emerged as a far more extreme form of physical and residential segregation than Jim Crow segregation. Rather than merely shunting people of color to the other side of town, people are locked in literal cages - en masse.

I think 'Mudbound' reveals the interconnectiveness of our stories. You can't separate out threads of history and race as economic construct. 'Mudbound' makes it very plain. Race is about commerce; it's not an actual thing. It's a fiction that was created to basically divide resources unequally.

The world is pretty messed up.

If we just stand at two opposite ends of the spectrum screaming in each other's face, we're never gonna get anything done. I don't agree with a Trump voter, but why do they feel like that? Yes, some of those people are racist and have hateful opinions, but some of those people voted for him because they felt completely left behind.