Robert Guillaume Quotes

There is a racist virus in the American blood stream...

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

While the old spiritual 'Slavery Chain Done Broke at Last' was sung by blacks in the hours following the Appomattox surrender, racism sadly continues to be a crippling national scourge.

I found there's a fairly blatant racism in America that's already there, and I don't think I noticed it when I lived here as a kid. But when I went back to South Africa, and then it's sort of thrust in your face, and then came back here - I just see it everywhere.

I do not think white America is committed to granting equality to the American Negro. This is a passionately racist country; it will continue to be so in the foreseeable future.

To the great majority of white Americans, the Negro problem has distinctly negative connotations. It suggests something difficult to settle and equally difficult to leave alone. It is embarrassing. It makes for moral uneasiness.

The problem of the Twentieth Century is the problem of the color-line.

Although the race problem may seem to lie dormant at times, it continually exists, lives on and on and sometimes rages with all the fury of a jungle beast. It gnaws at the very vitals of our existence, in time it will sap our strength and destroy the greatness of our American way of life unless solved properly and permanently.

There's a little racism out here, always was, and always will be.

Of course there's racism in this country, and we have a terrible history of that in this nation.

On any given day, there's always something I'd rather be doing than facing the ugly, racist underbelly of America.

I feel like racism isn't over.

As much as we want to say racism is dead, it's still rearing its ugly head constantly.

The reality is we have allowed systemic racism to continue through all these years.

I am not naive, and I do realize that racism is alive and well in the United States of America. I am also fully aware that when segregation ended, we didn't all live happily ever after. No one can convince me, however, that life in America would be better if blacks and whites had stayed separate and unequal.

racism is alive and doing too well in America.

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

America's racist, so what do you expect.

Slavery has never been abolished from America's way of thinking.

The challenges African-Americans are facing today are rooted in the system of slavery.

There's a lot of racism still alive and still active.

If acknowledging that racial misgivings and misunderstandings are still a part of politics and life in America, I plead guilty.

Racism, unfortunately, is part of the fabric of America's society.

Many of the racial problems in America are caused by the fact that people are innately tribal, and politicians know how to exploit that biological fact.

As an African-American, I know all too well the negative thoughts and feelings hatred and bigotry cause.