Glenn Loury 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.

The issue of race could benefit from a period of benign neglect.

I think "post-racial" is a dangerous trap. You can fall into complacency and give your complicity a much more dangerous character.

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

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.

It is a lie that America is racist

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

I have never seen any good resulting from educating the Negro.

This whole notion of a post racial America was nonsense from the very beginning. It was a bad idea, a bad notion, a bad formulation when it was first raised.

If white America is ready to extend complete democratic rights to colored people, there will be no race, no racial tension and no racial prejudice on either side, but we can be sure that any movement 'back to normalcy' in race relations will be bitterly resisted by colored people. It is now up to white America to make its choice...

It really bothers me when people say we live in a postracial America.

I am not sure the issue of race in America will ever be completely solved.

Our racial past and future is something that we Americans must address.

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

The only reason race matters is because of racism.

The Negro who experiences bitter and agonizing circumstances as a result of some ungodly white person is tempted to look upon all white persons as evil, if he fails to look beyond his circumstances. But the minute he looks beyond his circumstances and sees the whole of the situation, he discovers that some of the most implacable and vehement advocates of racial equality are consecrated white persons.

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

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

The only people who live in a post-black world are four people who live in a little white house on Pennsylvania Avenue. The idea that America is post-racial or post-black because a man I admire, Barack Obama, is president of the United States, is a joke. And I hope no one will even wonder about this crazy fiction again.

Though this nation has proudly thought of itself as an ethnic melting pot, in things racial we have always been and continue to be, in too many ways, essentially a nation of cowards.

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.

Rosewood is what Americans did to Americans. We have to hold the mirror up... and look at ourselves. Sometimes that's an ugly sight. And sometimes you have to go through that pain - both black America and white America - so we can finally find some racial harmony.

I believe there are certainly racial problems in this country, and I believe that peaceful solutions can help bring the races together.

The fact is that racism, despite all the doomsayers, has diminished.

In spite of what some people claim, we are not in a post-racial era. I think it's still an important issue to bring up.