Margaret Walker Quotes

If white and black and red and brown can come together to focus our energies on overcoming the racial malaise that persists, then this will have been a great moment.

Everybody should take each other as they are, white, black, Indians, Creole. Then there would be no prejudice, nations would get along.

In the final analysis the weakness of Black Power is its failure to see that the black man needs the white man and the white man needs the black man.

I believe that our national security lies not just in protecting our borders, but in bridging divides.

I like to see myself as a bridge builder, that is me building bridges between people, between races, between cultures, between politics, trying to find common ground.

You know, one race will not be a survivor if the other one dies, and that's something that we should think about.

Life doesn't make any sense without interdependence. We need each other, and the sooner we learn that, the better for us all.

I think every group of black guys should have at least one white guy in it.

You know, the diversity that America has is so special. It's starting to really become a cool thing for young people.

Now we have black and white elected officials working together. Today, we have gone beyond just passing laws. Now we have to create a sense that we are one community, one family. Really, we are the American family.

But I think the possibility of a black and white society feeding each other's expertises, living harmoniously, will probably go along in fits and starts now but at least it has a great constitution now to back it up.

I have worked hard to build relationships between Jewish people and black people.

We must stop posing as victims of the West and behaving negatively towards the West. We must participate with the West on an equal footing in the reconstruction of the world.

Tulsa was the kind of place where you could go to any door and borrow a cup of sugar. Everybody knew everybody. Truthfully, I don't even remember dealing with any racism in our town; we all got along.

Even if the members of different communities find each other physically and/or behaviorally strange, irritating, or annoying, and do not want to associate as neighbors, they may still engage in mutually beneficial trade if they reside spatially separated from each other.

The white and colored people of this country [can] be blended into a common nationality…

There must be no revenge … Our aim is to bring people of all races together. All citizens will by equal in the eyes of the law.

O black boy of Atlanta! But half was spoken; The slave's chains and the master's Alike are broken; The one curse of the races Held both in tether; They are rising--all are rising-- The black and white together.

Each and every civilization in the world is in complete concordance with its people and their condition of living. If a civilization loses this equilibrium it will be lost itself. The inharmonious civilizations die because of their lack of harmony and those who survive are in complete harmony with the changing conditions. The best way of coping with these ever-increasing changes is to come together with the other civilizations.

Philosophically, Dubois may have had no problem with a great African American institution. On the other hand, he always believed ultimately in the co-mingling of groups and the interplay of talents and in the collaboration of groups.

America is made of different races and different religions, but we're all co-travelers on the spaceship Earth and must respect and help each other along the way.

It's very important for me to have dialogues across racial lines.

I pray with my whole soul that the divide-and-conquerers among us will not triumph over us. We need each other in this world so desperately.

Nothing has done more to bring people of different races and different backgrounds together than athletics, certainly more than politicians have done. It's why the Greeks invented the Olympics.

One of my key areas of unification is to champion multiracialism. Multiracialism is vital to unity.