George F. Will Quotes

The new integration plans being offered are really just quota systems to assure a certain number of blacks, Chicanos or whatever in each school… What it says is, ‘In order for your child with curly black hair, brown eyes, and dark skin to be able to learn anything, he needs to sit next to my blond-haired, blue-eyed son.’ That’s racist! Who the hell do we think we are, that the only way a black man or woman can learn is if they rub shoulders with my white child?

The only way you get to the goal of color blindness is to be color conscious along the way.

Your not black enough. If you are black, all you have to do is wear a dashiki and pump your fist, and you’ll get all the money you want.

I don't think we can undo the past. … We have to do the best we can now...I don't think quotas are a good idea...I don't think quotas are a good idea. I think it is a mistake to begin to assign quotas on the basis of religion or race or color, or nationality. … We are too mixed, this society of ours, to begin to divide ourselves on the basis of race or color.

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

I don't believe in reverse racism. I really don't.

The only remedy to past discrimination is present discrimination. The only remedy to present discrimination is future discrimination.

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.

We cannot just be nonracist. We really do need to be antiracist.

Sometimes, you feel like, 'Am I going to be upset about this as a black person or as a woman first? Or am I gonna be both?' Because some things inherently affect black women; some things affect you as a woman and not a black person; and some things just affect you as a black person.

I think that affirmative action programs can be very important.

To abandon affirmative action is to say there is nothing more to be done about discrimination.

Antiracism is direct opposition to any idea that supposes one race is better than any other in any respect.

I wish Americans understood that race is a social construct, even if we don't want it to be.

We need a more substantive conversation around race relations and the way people of color are treated.

We cannot afford to be color-blind, we have to be color-brave.

Education is the key solution for change, for peace, and for help in the fight against racism and discrimination in general.

There are positive steps being taken to tackle issues that people from all walks of life, races, ethnicities, and political persuasions agree have been devastating to communities of color.

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

That's the nightmare for Elizabeth Warren, because I can attack her from the left. I can say, 'Wait a minute, what do you know about the journey of a person of color? You know nothing. This is all theory to you. Because you did lie. You took advantage of affirmative action.'

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

When folks say 'identity politics' don't matter, it simply reinforces the norm of a white, middle-class, cis narrative and further marginalizes the rest of us who don't share that identity.

We have all had to deal with cruel remarks from other children, and it has made us stronger as a result. But today every minor slight is analysed to determine whether or not it is racist, sexist, homophobic and so on.

Justice should be one of the things that's colorblind.

If kids have the oportunity to come together to get to know one another, they can judge for themselves who they want their friends to be. All children should have that choice. We, as adults, shouldn't make those choices for children. That's how racism starts.