Margaret Halsey Quotes

The ultimate solution to the race problem lies in the willingness of men to obey the unenforceable.

Race relations can be an appropriate issue... but only if you want to craft solutions, and not catalogue complaints. If we use the issue appropriately, we can transform it from the cancer of our society into the cure.

If the Emancipation Proclamation was authentic, you wouldn't have a race problem.

I came out of the Civil Rights Movement, and I had a different kind of focus than most people who have just the academic background as their primary training experience.

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

The symbolic value of having an African-American president has certainly eased some racial tensions in America, but they're not gone.

The racial inferiority doctrine is beginning to come into disrepute with people of higher education and is no longer supported by the press or by leading public figures

As the civil rights struggle progressed, Americans responded to the justice of the cause, shedding layers of the crusty armor that shielded the white majority from contact with its large black minority. There are layers left. It feels so much better to be on good terms with one another.

We were in denial about the extent to which Britain had cured itself of the poison of racism.

I'll stop talking about race when people stop being racist.

Berry was a transitional and, to my mind, revolutionary black figure who had to find a place for the rage that the crucible of racism created.

I feel so proud to see young people standing up against the injustice to stand up and say that "All lives matter." They're following in the footsteps of those who came before them.

Solve the race problem here, and once you solve the race problem here, you don't have to send these billions of dollars abroad.

Today we know with certainty that segregation is dead. The only question remaining is how costly will be the funeral.

The NAACP is a wonderful organization . . . But do you realize if tomorrow morning we had complete integration, all them cats would be outta work?

It's undeniable there's been remarkable progress for African-Americans in this country. They've been elected senators and governors and running major corporations. But obviously we still have a long way to go.

The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to speak openly and candidly on the subject of race, and to apply the Constitution with eyes open to the unfortunate effects of centuries of racial discrimination.

Obviously, In The Heat Of The Night was a landmark movie because the timing was perfect. It was in the middle of the Civil Rights Movement.

I saw that I could not afford the luxury of just being an actress. So I made a choice to use my career as a platform to address the issues of the race I was born into.

Whereas the only real solution to the race problem in this country is a solution that involves individual self improvement and collective self improvement in, whereas our own, wherein our own people are concerned.

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

The conversation about race is inevitable. It's one that people know that we have to have and continue to have.

Americans of good-will, the nice decent church people, the well-meaning liberals, the good hearted souls who themselves wouldn't lynch anyone, must begin to realize that they have to be more than passively good-hearted, more than church goingly Christian, and much more than word-of-mouth in the liberalism.

There are definitely racial problems in this country [the USA]. Comedy is a way we can figure out how to solve it, and how to solve it without making people really angry.

Any form of integration, forced integration, any - any - any effort to force integration upon whites is actually hypocritical.