Jimmy Carter Quotes

We can sugar-coat this any way we want to, but the reality is that there are some people who just don’t want a Black President.

Clearly, the Obama presidency hasn't wiped out racial prejudices.

This county was formed for the white man, not for the black man.

In the post-Civil War South few whites ever voted for black office seekers, and the legacy of their refusal remains with us in a variety of forms. The depiction of Mr. Obama as a Kenyan, an Indonesian, an African tribal chief, a foreign Muslim — in other words, as a man fundamentally ineligible to be our president — is perhaps the most searing. Tellingly, it is a charge never brought against any of his predecessors.

When we finally got school buses for African American students in Georgia, the state legislature ordained that the front bumpers be painted black. Not even the school busses could be equal.

One third of African American males are destined to be in prison sometime in their lifetime.

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.

The reason people think it's important to be white is that they think it's important not to be black.

I doubted that the coconut-headed, chocolate-colored, typical coon who blacks my shoes every morning was fit for citizenship.

He was murdered by every member of the gospel who has remained silent about racial discrimination—who has hidden behind the stained glass windows of his church.. He was murdered by every Negro who accepted segregation.

This is a contest between the white man’s hope and black evil.

A coloured man can tell, in five seconds dead, whether a white man likes him or not.

If you're white, You're all right. If you're brown, Stick around. But if you're black, Get back, get back.

Separate schools for African Americans in effect branded a whole race with the stigma of inferiority and degradation

Segregation is a disease of white people, not of colored people.

… we clung to the belief... that our white skin made us "better" than all other people. And this belief comforted us, for we felt worthless and weak when confronted with authorities who had cheapened nearly all we held dear, except our skin color. There, in the land of Epidermis, every one of us was a little king.

The scars of racism still remain deeply imbedded in America.

Modern technical civilization does not seem to be as well handled by the black man as by the white man in the United States

Racism is not merely a simplistic hatred. It is, more often broad sympathy toward some and broader skepticism toward others. Black America ever lives under that skeptical eye.

Perhaps no statistic better illustrates the enduring legacy of our country’s shameful history of treating black people as sub-citizens, sub-Americans, and sub-humans than the wealth gap.

Class prejudice is applied both the white and black poor, whose demographic traits are converging. But classism combines with latent and historic racism to create a particularly malicious brew. People are now assigned a whole range of supposedly underclass traits based on a single glimpse of skin color.

We’re always talking about blacks as a group and whites as individuals.

I do not know many Negroes who are eager to be “accepted” by white people, still less to be loved by them; they, the blacks, simply don’t wish to be beaten over the head by the whites every instant of our brief passage on the planet.

Some people resented the fact I was trying to break a white man's record.

If whiteness were of no particular advantage, then having a fuller color wheel of skin tones would be purely a matter of celebration. But whiteness - just a drop of it - does still carry privilege. You learn that very young in America.