Mary Matalin Quotes

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

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

I feel that there has been progress made since I was a boy on matters of race, but we have a long way to go.

Rosewood is what Americans did to Americans. We have to hold the mirror up... and look at ourselves. Sometimes that's an ugly sight. And sometimes you have to go through that pain - both black America and white America - so we can finally find some racial harmony.

I believe there are certainly racial problems in this country, and I believe that peaceful solutions can help bring the races together.

The American demands of the Negro are there, made in the American manner, rooted in the American ideal. They are not to be brushed aside, and something more than fulmination and bluster is indicated from the opposition. The next move is up to white Americans, and particularly white Southern Americans.

I know that so many of us hoped that, by electing our first black president, we had turned the page on this chapter in our history. But, despite our best efforts and our highest hopes, America's long struggle with race is far from finished.

In many people's many people's minds this is the sole reason Barack Obama was elected. He was elected to fix race relations.

I really work for racial reconciliation in many ways. And you can judge me by my writings.

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

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

Racial problems can't be easily reconciled with a pat account about racism and discrimination that lets us sort of relax into saying when we finally get this right, when we get rid of racism, when we reach the post-racial society, everything is going to be okay. Well, no, because along the way here, as we've not yet been in this racial nirvana, facts on the ground have been created.

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.

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.

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

Part of Obama’s genius is a remarkable ability to soothe race consciousness among whites …

The relation between the white and colored people of this country is the great, paramount, imperative, and all-commanding question for this age and nation to solve

I do think that people will claim a certain fatigue about talking about race. But I think that even though they do, it's still necessary - completely necessary.

'Mudbound' highlights the fact that we're still battling a lot of the same issues as we were all of those decades ago.

We need to have a more thoughtful, two-sided conversation about racial issues in this country.

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

The media role in highlighting racial incidents only serves to exacerbate tension. We rarely write about racial harmony.

Our racial past and future is something that we Americans must address.

The white race is doomed not because it's white but because of its misdeeds.

Now is the time to lift our national policy from the quicksand of racial injustice to the solid rock of human dignity.