Charles Hamilton Houston Quotes

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

America is decidedly not 'post-racial.'

Electing the first African-American president was a tremendous accomplishment, but it hasn't erased racism.

In America we talk about South Africa, but I tell people that apartheid is nothing compared to what is happening in my country where black oppresses black.

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 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.

Race in America is not a problem you can go over, or around or under. You've got to go through it.

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.

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.

We never discuss race until something bad happens.

What whites cannot experience and may never understand is that no matter which side of the bed I chose to wake up on, I would still be a black man in the racially divisive America.

If we are to learn anything from the tragic death of Michael Brown, we must first acknowledge that we have a race issue we are not addressing.

Everything in American public life, when it comes to race relations, serves as a frame for a history of violence and degrading humiliation.

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.

Yes, I'm an extremist. The Black race here in North America is in extremely bad condition. You show me a Black man who isn't an extremist and I'll show you one who needs psychiatric attention.

The share of Americans who say race relations are bad in this country is the highest it's been in decades, much of it amplified by shootings of African-Americans by police, as we've seen recently in Charlotte and Tulsa.

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

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

I would think black people think everything is about race. They are the ones who are on the outside of the game. They are the ones who face it every day.

The fallout from slavery is ongoing. I am not sure the issue of race in America will ever be completely solved.

Americans love to talk about the Constitution and how it protects the rights of every citizen and promises freedom to every citizen, but it's also a country based on racism and they don't talk about that too much and every time there's a film which deals with it there's certain parts of the country that feel uncomfortable.

Well, the white race in America is the same way. As individuals it is impossible for them to escape the collective crime committed against the Negroes in this country, collectively.

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