Muhammad Ali Quotes

I know that so many of us hoped that, by electing our first black president, we had turned the page on this chapter in our history. But, despite our best efforts and our highest hopes, America's long struggle with race is far from finished.

This is why integration will not work. It assumes that the two races, black and white, are equal and can be made to live as one. This is not true.

Not unlike our country's history, my personal history was founded upon an unfortunate history of racial conflict between black and white.

You can't have anything valuable in your house. Niggers will break in and take it all! Everything white people don't like about black people, black people don't like about black people. It's like our own personal civil war. On one side, there's black people. On the other, you've got niggers. The niggers have got to go. I love black people, but I hate niggers. I am tired of niggers. Tired, tired, tired.

This is the United States of America and unfortunately, race still matters to a lot of people. The evil head of racism doesn't hide, it sticks its head up.

This war is really the greatest insanity in which white races have ever been engaged.

The share of Americans who say race relations are bad in this country is the highest it's been in decades, much of it amplified by shootings of African-Americans by police, as we've seen recently in Charlotte and Tulsa.

Some people want to have controversy between the races.

I don’t believe in categories of any kind, and when you speak of problems between blacks and whites in the U.S.A. you are referring to categories again.

Yet it seems that a final race struggle is unavoidable

A lot of wars are fought between black and whites daily in America. But if it's something I want to be with, the people who started it were black, I wouldn't not get in it.

Despite our best efforts and our highest hopes, America's long struggle with race is far from finished.

The fallout from slavery is ongoing. I am not sure the issue of race in America will ever be completely solved.

Americans love to talk about the Constitution and how it protects the rights of every citizen and promises freedom to every citizen, but it's also a country based on racism and they don't talk about that too much and every time there's a film which deals with it there's certain parts of the country that feel uncomfortable.

We are about to have a racial explosion.

There was never a promise that race relations in America would be entirely resolved during my presidency or anybody's presidency. I mean, this has been a running thread - and - and fault line in American life and American politics since its founding.

It would be the easiest thing in the world for the white man to destroy all Black Muslims.

We have also seen this spate of incidents, racially-charged incidents, across the country right now. What should President-Elect [Donald] Trump do to get that under control?

The race problem in the United States is the type of unpleasant problem which we would rather do without but which refuses to be buried.

Race in America is not a problem you can go over, or around or under. You've got to go through it.

To believe that the United States is post-racial requires an almost incomprehensible inability or unwillingness to stare truth in the face.

The people desire to permit no equality between coloured people and white inhabitants, either in church or state.

Because of unconquerable prejudice resulting from their color, [freed slaves] never could amalgamate with the free whites of this country.

I am obliged to confess that I do not regard the abolition of slavery as a means of warding off the struggle of the two races in the Southern states. The Negroes may long remain slaves without complaining; but if they are once raised to the level of freemen, they will soon revolt at being deprived of almost all their civil rights; and as they cannot become the equals of the whites, they will speedily show themselves as enemies.

… defiling the race line