"Today's white majority is largely silent about the race question."

Constance Baker Motley, American Activist

Racism, Majority, Question, Race, Today

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"If only Al Sharpton were around, Lincoln would have known he was a victim of racism."

Ann Coulter, American Journalist

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"Racism tears down your insides so that no matter what you achieve, you're not quite up to snuff."

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"Their prejudice allowed white Southerners to look the other way when blacks were denied their most basic human rights, and it encouraged the worst of them to engage in unspeakable acts of cruelty and violence."

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"Not all 'whites' are racists. Not all racists are 'white."

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"The American white relegates the black to the rank of shoeshine boy, and he concludes from this that the black is good for nothing but shining shoes."

George Bernard Shaw, Irish Dramatist

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"They used to say, 'If we find a good black player, we'll sign him.' They was lying."

Cool Papa Bell, American Athlete

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"Racists are everywhere, but historically speaking the real danger came from Progressives that desired the power of the state to engineer society upon a racial lines."

A.E. Samaan, American Author

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"It is in racists' best interest to maintain white supremacy at all costs. They will defend it with their lives, but ONLY after they've defended it with ours."

Darnell Lamont Walker, American Writer

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"I was the only white kid in my neighborhood for most of my youth even in high school, so reverse racism was just as apparent as racism."

Shia LaBeouf, American Actor

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"I grow dizzy when I recall that the number of manufactured tanks seems to have been more important to me than the vanished victims of racism."

Albert Speer, German Architect

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"The Constitution, as originally drawn, made no reference to the fact that all Americans wre considered equal members of society."

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"I grew up in a house where nobody had to tell me to go to school every day and do my homework."

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"If only Al Sharpton were around, Lincoln would have known he was a victim of racism."

"Racism tears down your insides so that no matter what you achieve, you're not quite up to snuff."

"Their prejudice allowed white Southerners to look the other way when blacks were denied their most basic human rights, and it encouraged the worst of them to engage in unspeakable acts of cruelty and violence."

"Not all 'whites' are racists. Not all racists are 'white."

"The American white relegates the black to the rank of shoeshine boy, and he concludes from this that the black is good for nothing but shining shoes."

"They used to say, 'If we find a good black player, we'll sign him.' They was lying."

"Racists are everywhere, but historically speaking the real danger came from Progressives that desired the power of the state to engineer society upon a racial lines."

"It is in racists' best interest to maintain white supremacy at all costs. They will defend it with their lives, but ONLY after they've defended it with ours."

"I was the only white kid in my neighborhood for most of my youth even in high school, so reverse racism was just as apparent as racism."

"I grow dizzy when I recall that the number of manufactured tanks seems to have been more important to me than the vanished victims of racism."

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"I soon found law school an unmitigated bore."

"By 1962, King had become, by the media's reckoning, the new civil rights leader."

"There is no longer a single common impediment to blacks emerging in this society."

"When Thurgood Marshall became a lawyer, race relations in the United States were particularly bad."

"All Southern state colleges and universities are open to black students."

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"My parents never told us that our great-grandmothers had been slaves."

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"The Constitution, as originally drawn, made no reference to the fact that all Americans wre considered equal members of society."

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