“The paradox of race in America is that our common destiny is more pronounced and imperiled precisely when our divisions are deeper.” AmericaCommonRaceDestinyDeeperParadoxDivisionRace In America Book:Race Matters Source: Race Matters
“I always tell young people in particular: Do not say that nothing's changed when it comes to race in America, unless you lived through being a black man in the 1950s or '60s or '70s.” PeopleMenAmericaYoungBlackRaceChangedParticularRace In America Author:Barack Obama
“In nothing was slavery so savage and relentless as in its attempted destruction of the family instincts of the Negro race in America. Individuals, not families; shelters, not homes; herding, not marriages, were the cardinal sins in that system of horrors.” HomeAmericaIndividualSinRaceFamilyHorrorDestructionSlaveryInstinctShelterSavagesRelentlessCardinalsRace In America Author:Fannie Barrier Williams