Andrew Goodman Quotes

The difference with Cleveland is that the racial tension was not a casual taste of it. It was outlandish.

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.

Segregation is a problem not just in my country but in every country.

Race is the San Andreas Fault of our culture as well as our history. Its fissures are forever present and not that far beneath the surface of every day life. To deny that is to risk being labeled delusional.

America preaches integration and practices segregation.

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.

The city of Memphis has demonstrated that neither character nor standing avails the Negro if he dares to protect himself against the white man or become his rival.

The mob spirit has grown with the increasing intelligence of the Afro-American.

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

I'm from South Carolina. I'm from a real cultured state, where there's still racism daily. Still, places are segregated.

We cannot afford to weaponize race.

Black Lives Matter is the culmination of racial divide. They're nothing more than the last socially acceptable hate group in America.

Not unlike our country's history, my personal history was founded upon an unfortunate history of racial conflict between black and white.

The race problem in the United States is the type of unpleasant problem which we would rather do without but which refuses to be buried.

This nation is being divided into black and white, and the present system encourages this.

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

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.

What is our greatest enemy? Segregation.

You may call me a Klansman if you will, but, potentially, every white man is a Klansman, as far as the Negro in competition with whites socially, economically and politically is concerned, and there is no use lying.

I grew up here, and it's always been a very diverse community. So for people to come out and say that there's some long-standing anger or there's a history of racial tension is absolutely ridiculous. There's not a black-white divide in Ferguson.

An American, a Negro... two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder.

There's not a racial divide in the city of Ferguson.

Believing that no one is better than the other. You know I grew up in the South. My senior year there was a very big racial tension.