David Duke Quotes

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.

Be nice to the whites, they need you to rediscover their humanity.

Few whites are ready to actively promote civil rights for blacks.

Let us build bridges, my friends, build bridges to human dignity across that gulf that separates black America from white America.

The relation between the white and colored people of this country is the great, paramount, imperative, and all-commanding question for this age and nation to solve

Intelligent white Southerners are ready to see Negroes as useful members of the community

For everybody, I think that we all, when we look at this situation of race, we need a change of heart, and I said it before. I believe the heart change comes from repenting of your racism, repenting of your bias, repenting of your prejudice and understanding that, you know what, God sees us all the same.

I'll stop talking about race when people stop being racist.

Now is the time to lift our national policy from the quicksand of racial injustice to the solid rock of human dignity.

Antiracism is not "my" campaign. I have been doing antiracism organizing, activism, educating and writing for 20 years, in one form or another, but it's not a personal crusade. My work is part of a larger tradition, and larger effort, involving mostly people of color, and of course some white allies as well.

The ultimate solution to the race problem lies in the willingness of men to obey the unenforceable.

People are very comfortable when race relations get looked at retrospectively. Slavery, the civil rights movement, etc.

The glory of this land has been its capacity for transcending the moral evils of our past. For example, the long struggle of minority citizens for equal rights, once a source of disunity and civil war, is now a point of pride for all Americans. We must never go back. There is no room for racism, anti-Semitism, or other forms of ethnic and racial hatred in this country.

I am thankful, however, that some of our white brothers have grasped the meaning of this social revolution and committed themselves to it. They are still all too small in quantity, but they are big in quality.

Education is the thing. This black-white bit - I don't deal with people that way. I deal with it as if you are another individual. If you do something that perturbs me or aggravates me, I do not think you've done it because I'm black.

I believe that we have to be so race-conscious in this day and age.

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

The promise of Obama's presidency, in many people's minds, is partly that America will move toward becoming a post-racial society. It's pretty clear, though, that we aren't there yet.

Until blacks and whites see each other as brother and sister, we will not have parity. It's very clear.

Welcome to post-racial America. I'm the face of post-racial America.

The legal battle against segregation is won, but the community battle goes on.

Accordingly, one race is neither superior nor inferior to another.

We owe the Aboriginal peoples a debt that is four centuries old. It is their turn to become full partners in developing an even greater Canada. And the reconciliation required may be less a matter of legal texts than of attitudes of the heart.

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

And my point was one I think that you'd agree with, which is there's no room in America for a black racist, a Latino racist, or a white racist, or an Asian racist, or a Native American racist. Now, we're either color blind or we're not color blind.