“Education is a bipartisan issue that concern all communities of color and should be first, last and always about the student learning.” ShouldFirstsLastsCommunityIssuesStudentsColorConcernBipartisanStudent Learning Author:J. C. Watts
“I was taught to respect everyone for the simple reason that we're all God's children. I was taught, in the words of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.... to judge a man not by the color of his skin, but by the content of his character. And I was taught that character...is simply doing what's right when nobody's looking.” MenChildrenReasonCharacterSimpleTaughtColorJudgingKingsSkinsLuther Author:J. C. Watts
“I'm looking forward to the day when America will mature to the point that we are a color-blind society. I'm not so sure that in politics that will ever be reality, because politics has a way of separating us based on skin color.” WayRealityAmericaColorSkinsBlindMatureLooking ForwardSeparatingSkin Color Author:J. C. Watts
“I am willing to compete on my merits and on my character - not with the color of my skin. We talk about being a color-blind society, but I don't think the political process could actually handle that.” ThinkingCharacterPoliticalProcessColorWillingSkinsBlindHandleMerit Author:J. C. Watts
“I'm not one that believes that affirmative action should be based on one's skin color or one's gender, I think it should be done based on one's need, because I think if you are from a poor white community, I think that poor white kid needs a scholarship just as badly as a poor black kid.” IfsThinkingNeedsShouldBelieveDoneKidsActionBlackCommunityWhitePoorColorSkinsGenderScholarshipAffirmative ActionAffirmativeSkin Color Author:J. C. Watts
“In 1989 when I switched from Democrat to Republican, with God as my witness, not one thing changed about what I believed about one man and one woman in a marriage or about diversity of color. That's a good thing.” MenOne ThingChangedColorRepublicanDiversityGood ThingsDemocratWitnessOne ManOne Woman Author:J. C. Watts
