Dave Matthews Quotes

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.

racism is alive and doing too well in America.

Race remains a significant challenge in America.

The media really only pays attention to white people. I think America is really racist.

If you are the normal white American, truth is you don't understand being black in America, and you instinctively underestimate the level of discrimination and the level of additional risk.

... all Americans are the prisoners of racial prejudice.

If one lives in a country where racism is held valid and practiced in all ways of life eventually, no matter whether one is a racist or a victim, one comes to feel the absurdity of life....Racism generated from whites is first of all absurd. Racism creates absurdity among blacks as a defense mechanism.

It's getting almost so bad a colored man hasn't got any country.

There clearly is a serious race problem in the country. Just take a look at what's happening to African American communities. For example wealth, wealth in African American communities is almost zero. The history is striking.

Racism is so universal in this country, so widespread and deepseated, that it is invisible because it is so normal.

Until we have a serious discussion, this problem [racism] will continue to occur.

Race prejudice is the devil unchained.

The issue of racism and racial prejudice. It is very, very difficult to discuss. It is difficult to discuss the issue of apartheid. Many have made the observation that it is very difficult to find anyone in SA who ever supported apartheid because everyone was opposed, it was against our will and so on.

I say we haven't ended racial caste in America; we have merely redesigned it.

Racial oppression of black people in America has done what neither class oppression or sexual oppression, with all their perniciousness, has ever done: destroyed an entire people and their culture.

America is a white man's country.

Racism is not dead, but it is on life support -- kept alive by politicians, race hustlers and people who get a sense of superiority by denouncing others as 'racists'

I would think black people think everything is about race. They are the ones who are on the outside of the game. They are the ones who face it every day.

The patterns have become unmistakable and undeniable. ... We have to come to terms with some hard truths about race and justice in America.

Racism in America absolutely exists - it is an issue. We need to fix it. We're a great country - probably the greatest country but we could be a hell of a lot greater.

Had it not been for the race problem early thrust upon me and enveloping me, I should have probably been an unquestioning worshipper at the shrine of the established social order and of the economic development into which I was born.

There are still horrible things that go on because of the myth of race, but we don't have to succumb totally.

Race baiters and discriminators may go underground, but they never move out of town.

I'm so old that I can remember when most of the people promoting race hate were white.