Matthew Dowd Quotes

The patterns have become unmistakable and undeniable. ... We have to come to terms with some hard truths about race and justice in America.

Every nation on this planet has its issues with race, and I am not sure if everyone has figured out how to deal with it. America has become more politically correct.

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.

Despite our best efforts and our highest hopes, America's long struggle with race is far from finished.

The only reason race matters is because of racism.

I think that the opportunity to improve race relations in the United States has been put off temporarily.

I think there's a racial outcome to a lot of what goes in America, but I don't think race is always the reason.

The issue of race could benefit from a period of benign neglect.

You cannot allow people to say what they like about race, religion or culture. These cause problems and you are in big trouble.

The issue with race particularly within this country is largely because of lack of dialogue.

This is the United States of America and unfortunately, race still matters to a lot of people. The evil head of racism doesn't hide, it sticks its head up.

It's not easy to be a martyr in the field of race relations.

How long is this endless groveling before every cry of 'racism' going to continue before the whole country collectively throws up?

One of the great difficulties about being a member of a minority race is that so many kindhearted, well-meaning bores gather around to help.

Black culture is cool, but black issues sure aren't, huh?

Mass incarceration is the most pressing racial justice issue of our time.

What would it take for you to acknowledge that race is an issue? Maybe you don't want to acknowledge that race is an issue.

A lot of networks don't want to touch controversial subjects, and especially stuff that deals with race and history.

Race baiters and discriminators may go underground, but they never move out of town.

Race is a part of every conversation in America, whether you know it or not.

Racism is predictable. It's predicted by interaction or lack thereof with people unlike you, people of other races.

The Bureau of Justice reports that one in three black male babies born this century will go to jail or prison - that is an absolutely astonishing statistic. And it ought to be terrorizing to not just to people of color, but to all of us.

As a country, we are in a state of denial about issues of race and racism. And too many of our leaders have concluded that the way to remedy racism is to simply stop talking about race.

I think there's a lot of shame in American race relations. There's a lot of suppressed guilt that lashes itself out still. I see that all the time, and whereas opposed to sort of trying to address the issue in an up-front way, they're attacking and thus perpetuating the problem thinking that they're being sophisticated and post-racial, when, in fact, they're being completely regressive.

As a general rule, no one should ever be allowed to say there is no history of racial tension here, because that sentence has never been true anywhere on Earth.