Richard Lugar Quotes

To solve the new century's mounting social and environmental problems, people of color activist and white activists need to be able to join forces. But all too often, the unconscious racism of white activists stands in the way of any effective, worthwhile collaboration. The Challenging White Supremacy Workshop is the most powerful tool that I have seen for removing the barriers to true partnerships between people of color and white folks. If the CWS trainings were mandatory for all white activists, the progressive movement in the United States would be unstoppable.

Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice.

When I care about black liberation, it is because I care about white liberation.

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.

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

Race must never be a partisan issue.

Well, I really think that shatters the myth of white supremacy once and for all.

I am not antiwhite, because I understand that white people, like black ones, are victims of a racist society. They are products of their time and place.

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.

The black people's struggle has vanquished racism. It was God who created colour. Today Obama, a son of Kenya, a son of Africa, has made it in the United States of America.

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

I thought our community should have a deep dialogue to make black America better. I believe if we make black America better, we make all of America better.

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

The people of the North owe to the colored race a deep obligation that is no easy matter to fulfill.

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.

But suppose God is black? What if we go to Heaven and we, all our lives, have treated the Negro as an inferior, and God is there, and we look up and He is not white? What then is our response?

I don't believe in blanket statements on race.

A race-transcendent politics is most likely to succeed when the white community takes responsibility for overcoming its racism, not when the black community decides to forget it.

I am the equal of any white man. I want you to feel the same way.

It is impossible to struggle for civil rights, equal rights for blacks, without including whites. Because equal rights, fair play, justice, are all like the air: we all have it, or none of us has it. That is the truth of it.

I think that we are all deeply, deeply committed to the liberation of black people. And so, when you put people together who have and share that commitment, the sky is the limit.

At the end of the day, if you're not against racism, you're racist.

I'm looking for projects where race is not an issue.

The white race is doomed not because it's white but because of its misdeeds.

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.