Marc Morial Quotes

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.

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

Racism is not dead, but it is on life support -- kept alive by politicians, race hustlers and people who get a sense of superiority by denouncing others as 'racists'

When I moved to London in the 1990s, it had changed a great deal. Racism had become deeply uncool. But there has been a return of racism in the guise of "antiterrorism." People who look like myself are immediately suspect. I've become extremely self-conscious about going into crowded public places.

It's the sad fact of how race still works in our country. We find that over and over again.

Until we have a serious discussion, this problem [racism] will continue to occur.

Race prejudice is the devil unchained.

We never discuss race until something bad happens.

Why reasonable people go stark raving mad when anything involving a Negro comes up, is something I don't pretend to understand.

The issue of racism and racial prejudice. It is very, very difficult to discuss. It is difficult to discuss the issue of apartheid. Many have made the observation that it is very difficult to find anyone in SA who ever supported apartheid because everyone was opposed, it was against our will and so on.

racism is alive and doing too well in America.

Racism is so extreme and so pervasive in our American society that no black individual lives in an atmosphere of freedom.

If one lives in a country where racism is held valid and practiced in all ways of life eventually, no matter whether one is a racist or a victim, one comes to feel the absurdity of life....Racism generated from whites is first of all absurd. Racism creates absurdity among blacks as a defense mechanism.

Racism. It's ugly. Even in tubers.

I think the president is a racist.

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

I think that one of the positions we have taken around the question of race, is that we already know. We know. We know. We know. And so we don't need to look at it again. And yet everybody is still upset. Everybody is still being driven by their outrageous imagination to the point of killing people because they feel that a black man in front of them is a demon, or the Incredible Hulk.

Had it not been for the race problem early thrust upon me and enveloping me, I should have probably been an unquestioning worshipper at the shrine of the established social order and of the economic development into which I was born.

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

The only reason race matters is because of racism.

I'm so old that I can remember when most of the people promoting race hate were white.

America's racist, so what do you expect.

Racial inequality is a big problem.

Bigotry is surely an exportable American commodity, especially when it comes to race.