Blase J. Cupich Quotes

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.

Slavery was our original sin. Race, our continuing dilemma.

We live in a world where racism hasn't changed at all. It's that old thing of, you know, the more things change, the more things remain the same.

I think sports is one of the places where race plays itself out publicly. Although we pretend it doesn't.

What is our greatest enemy? Segregation.

The roots of racism lie deep in man's nature, wounded and bruised by original sin.

The thought of' the inferiority of the Negro is drilled into him in almost every class he enters and in almost every book he studies.

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.

Race prejudice is not only a shadow over the colored—it is a shadow over all of us.

Racism in America has not been completely eradicated. It is a sturdy pestilence. Racism and intolerance raise their heads repeatedly, not only in America but in every land.

It’s a sordid business this divvying us up by race.

No Negro, mulatto, or Indian shall from and after the publication of this act bear any office ecclesiastical, civil or military, or be in any place of public trust or power, within this her majesty's colony and dominion of Virginia

The ugly heart of the South still beats with this idea that one group of people is worth less.

Racism is here and will always exist, but we can't use it as a crutch.

Race is such a contentious issue because of the painful history of racism. Race didn't create racism, but racism created race.

Racism was a big part of our community. I'm not going to revisit history, and I'm not going to call out those communities, but the communities we grew up around, we were treated like second- or third-class citizens.

Racism is a part of human nature, and you're not going to eradicate it; all you can do is try to keep it in check.

I have to battle so many issues, and the biggest is racism.

Racism is the lowest, most crudely primitive form of collectivism.

racism is alive and doing too well in America.

The Negro fought and bled and died in every war the white man waged, and he still won't give you justice. You nursed his baby and cleaned behind his wife, and he still won't give you freedom; you turned the other cheek while he lynched you and raped your women, but he still won't give you equality.

I cannot face my God much longer knowing that his black creatures are held separate and distinct from his white creatures in the game that has given me all that I can call my own.

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

In all the relations of life and death, we are met by the color line.