“We have but one flag, one country; let us stand together. We may differ in color, but not in sentiment.” MayCountryTogetherColorSentimentsFlags Author:Nathan Bedford Forrest
“The reality is that the founding fathers were land speculators. The fact was that you couldn't vote in this country if you did not own land, and that was basically you had to be a white man who owned land. Now how did they get that land? They basically had to steal it from someone, and that would be probably the Indians. And so most of the initial founding fathers were, while they may have had some really nice ideas about democracy, they had a lot of issues with people of color. They had a lot of issues with people who held things that they coveted.” PeopleIfsMenMayIdeasCountryFactsRealityWould BeFatherWhiteDemocracyIssuesNiceLandColorVoteStealingWhite ManFoundingInitialsReally NiceSpeculators Author:Winona LaDuke
“Let me assure my countrymen of the Southern States that it is my earnest desire to regard and promote their truest interest - the interests of the white and of the colored people both and equally and to put forth my best efforts in behalf of a civil policy which will forever wipe out in our political affairs the color line and the distinction between North and South, to the end that we may have not merely a united North or a united South, but a united country.” PeopleMayEndsCountryStatesPoliticalDesireInterestLinesWhiteUnitedEffortForeverPolicyColorLet MeRegardSouthAffairDistinctionSouthernBehalfEarnestWipeTruestCountrymenBest EffortNorth And South Author:Rutherford B. Hayes
“Some princes are born in palaces. Some are born in mangers. But a few are born in the imagination, out of scraps of history and hope... Barack Hussein Obama did not win because of the color of his skin. Nor did he win in spite of it. He won because at a very dangerous moment in the life of a still young country, more people than have ever spoken before came together to try to save it. And that was a victory all its own.” PeopleTryingStillsCountryMomentsTogetherYoungWinningBornImaginationDangerousColorVictorySkinsBarackSpiteHusseinPalacesScrap Author:Nancy Gibbs
“The fact is that in too many parts of our country, we still have discrimination. And affirmative action is not just something that applies to people of color. Some people have a mistaken view of it in America. It also is with respect to women, it's with respect to other efforts to try to reach out and be inclusive in our country.” PeopleTryingStillsCountryFactsActionAmericaViewsEffortColorDiscriminationOur CountryReach OutMistakenRespecting OthersAffirmative ActionAffirmative Author:John F. Kerry
“Whether a Commonwealth suffers more by hypocritical pretenders to religion or by the openly profane? The most dangerous hypocrite in a Commonwealth is one who leaves the gospel for the sake of the law. A man compounded of law and gospel is able to cheat a whole country with his religion and then destroy them under color of law.” MenCountryWholeAbleLawSufferingDangerousColorSakeCheatHypocriteCommonwealthProfaneHypocriticalPretender Author:Benjamin Franklin
“The American spring is like the country itself: abundant, rich, flowing over you like a full tide. ... Azaleas were suddenly ablaze. White dogwoods stood like brides in the wood - these trees of all colors were new to me; one does not meet them in Europe, and dogwood cannot even be transplanted to other continents. White and pink magnolias, yellowish rhododendrons, all of them lived happily side by side with our ordinary lilacs and lilies of the valley - the Russian symbols of spring.” DoeCountrySidesWhiteRichTreeColorSpringOrdinaryEuropeWoodsSymbolsOver YouValleysTidesContinentsBridesLiliesLilacMagnoliasAzaleas Author:Svetlana Alliluyeva
“Country, blues, rock 'n' roll, these are things that anybody can sing - male, female, person of color. From wherever you are in the world, you can sing this.” WorldPersonsCountryRocksColorFemaleMalesRock N RollWherever You AreMale Female Author:Pokey LaFarge
“[In Eritrea] in key positions - president, government, police - everybody's the same [color]. It's a country run by its people. No racial class, everybody feels a part of it.” PeopleFeelsCountryGovernmentRunningPresidentClassPositionColorKeysPoliceEritrea Author:Nipsey Hussle
“As a great democratic society, we have a special responsibility to the arts. For art is the great democrat, calling forth creative genius from every sector of society, disregarding race or religion or wealth or color. What freedom alone can bring is the liberation of the human mind and a spirit which finds its greatest flowering in the free society. I see of little more importance to the future of our country and our civilization than the full recognition of the place of the artist.” MindHumansLittlesArtCountrySpiritArtistWealthRaceResponsibilityMusicCreativeSpecialColorGeniusCallingCivilizationArt IsImportanceDemocraticDemocratOur CountryRecognitionLiberationHuman MindFree SocietyDemocratic SocietyFloweringCreative Genius Author:John F. Kennedy
“Im in love with red. I think its such a passionate color. Every flag of every country pretty much has red it it. Its power, theres no fence sitting with red. Either you love it or you dont. I think its blood and strength and life. I do love red. I love all colors. Great shades of blue, you find them in nature. Theyre all magic.” ThinkingCountryMagicBloodColorSittingRedBluePassionateShadeFlagsFenceStrength And LifeShades Of Blue Author:Bryan Batt
“Women inspire me. Women in the airports, around the country in different cities, destinations around the world, inspire me with the way they express their individuality. I love watching women and discovering all the ways each person uses a color, pattern, a style, even a lipstick color. Im a people watcher.” PeopleWorldWayPersonsDifferentCountryUseCitiesStyleInspireColorIndividualityPatternsAround The WorldDestinationDiscoveringAirportsLipstickWatchers Author:Camila Alves
“The Christian conceives of his abode on Earth in no more delightful colors than the Jainist sectarian. He sees in it only a time of sad trial; he also thinks that his true country is not of this world.” ThinkingWorldCountryEarthChristianThis WorldColorTrialsDelightfulAbode Book:Suicide Source: Suicide
“I have campaigned all over the state of South Carolina. It is the friendliest state in the country. And truly here people judge you by the content of your character not the color of your skin.” PeopleCountryStatesCharacterColorJudgingSkinsSouthCarolinaSouth Carolina Author:Tim Scott
“A man compounded of law and gospel is able to cheat a whole country with his religion and then destroy them under color of law” MenCountryWholeAbleLawColorCheat Book:A Benjamin Franklin Reader Source: A Benjamin Franklin Reader
“As for what I have done as a poet, I take no pride in whatever. Excellent poets have lived at the same time with me, poets more excellent lived before me, and others will come after me. But that in my country I am the only person who knows the truth in the difficult science of colors-of that, I say, I am not a little proud, and here have a consciousness of superiority to many.” KnowsLittlesPersonsCountryDoneDifficultConsciousnessColorPoetPrideProudExcellentSuperiority Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Music has no borders, no race or color, no limits of country, no ethnicity. Music makes the people come together. Dance it,Dance all.” PeopleCountryTogetherRaceColorLimitsBordersEthnicity Author:Pope Benedict XVI
“When I go to another country, I try to be a big sponge and look at what the houses may look like and what colors predominate. I do not do research as much as just get ideas and ask people about things.” PeopleTryingLooksMayIdeasCountryBigsAsksHouseColorResearchSponges Author:Jan Brett
“There are so many brilliant, trained actors of color in America. If you just think about it, every year in the spring Julliard and NYU and Yale and hundreds of schools across the country graduate classes of trained actors, and in those classes are actors of color. So to say that there aren't enough actors of color is factually inaccurate.” IfsThinkingYearsCountryEnoughSchoolAmericaActorsClassColorSpringBrilliantGraduatesYaleNyu Author:Andre Holland
“There is the National Flag. He must be cold, indeed, who can look upon its folds rippling in the breeze without pride of country. If he be in a foreign land, the flag is companionship and country itself, with all its endearment...The very colors have a language which was recognized by our fathers; white is for purity; red, for valor; blue, for justice. And altogether, bunting, stripes, stars, and colors, blazing in the sky, make the flag of our country, to be cherished by all our hearts, to be upheld by all our hands.” IfsLooksHeartCountryHandsFatherLanguageStarsJusticeWhiteSkyLandColorPrideColdRedBlueOur CountryPurityLook UpFlagsCompanionshipBreezeFoldsOur FatherValorStripesBlazingEndearmentForeign LandsBunting Author:Charles Sumner
“With segregation, with the isolation of the injured and the robbed, comes the concentration of disadvantage. An unsegregated America might see poverty, and all its effects, spread across the country with no particular bias toward skin color. Instead, the concentration of poverty has been paired with a concentration of melanin.” Has BeensCountryMightAmericaPovertyEffectsParticularColorSkinsSpreadIsolationConcentrationBiasSegregationInjuredDisadvantagesSkin ColorMelanin Book:We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy Source: We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy
“George Jones was a big, huge name in our household. George Jones-he is considered country, but in every genre he is known. Everybody knows George Jones. But George has such a unique voice. And he made such timeless songs, like "Color of the Blues", just real hard-core country stuff.” KnowsMadeRealCountryHardBigsSongNamesStuffVoiceKnownColorHugeUniqueCoreGenreHouseholdTimelessHard CoreGeorge JonesUnique Voices Author:Patty Loveless
“I was very proud and grateful to be the first African-American woman in the position. I thought it said a lot about our country that we had back-to-back African-American Secretaries of State, Colin Powell and then me. I also thought it said a lot about President Bush that he didn't see limits on the highest ranking diplomat in terms of color. It's a hard job, but really the best one in government.” FirstsSaidCountryHardStatesGovernmentJobsPresidentTermPositionColorProudLimitsHighestGratefulOur CountryAfrican AmericanSecretaryPresident BushDiplomatsAmerican WomanRankingAfrican American Women Author:Condoleezza Rice
“I am also going to go with somebody who is the opposite of Donald Trump and her name is Johari Osayi Idusuyi. I think she represented millions and millions of Americans who look at the message that Donald Trump is using his fame and the power he has accumulated to,you know, to send out into the world and it`s horrified. And I think her quiet resistance represented so many people because I`ll tell you, people of color have been trying to warn this country about Donald Trump for a really long time and I think she reminded us.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWorldTryingLooksLongHas BeensCountryNamesMillionsColorTrumpFameQuietMessagesLong TimeOppositesResistanceReally Long Author:Joy-Ann Reid
“I agree that all kids of all colors love hip-hop. My point in writing the book was to raise questions about the ways the hip-hop generation and the millennium generation, both who have lived their entire lives in post-segregation America, are processing race in radically different ways than any generation of Americans. I think they have a lot to tell us as a country about ways of addressing race matters.” ThinkingWayWritingBookDifferentCountryMatterKidsAmericaRaceGenerationsColorRaisesAgreeHip HopHipsPostsDifferent WaysHopsSegregationProcessingMillenniumRaises Questions Author:Bakari Kitwana
“I get letters from kids from all over the country. I always try to answer them because there were people I looked up to in my youth and just wanted to be in contact with. It's also important to realize that you find your role models in a lot of different places. I've never believed that your role models have to look like you. You can find them in all sort of colors, shapes and sizes.” PeopleTryingLooksImportantDifferentCountryKidsWantedRealizingAnswersRolesYouthColorLike YouShapesModelsLettersSizeContactRole ModelsDifferent Place Author:Condoleezza Rice
“There's a long-term tradition of white supremacy in this country. [Donald] Trump isn't something entirely new. But then there is the crisis for white supremacy in this country now where you have people of color standing up for themselves in ways that they've never stood up for themselves or at least standing up for themselves in a generational, novel way.” PeopleWayLongCountryTermWhiteNovelColorTrumpStandingTraditionCrisisLong TermWhite SupremacySupremacyStood Up Author:Junot Diaz
“To challenge norms, presuppositions, practices in communities across this country - where the unconscious valorization and celebration of whiteness and conscious resistance to trying to grapple with black and brown and other peoples of color's ideas and identities - makes a huge difference.” TryingIdeasCountryBlackCommunityChallengesDifferencesPracticeIdentityColorHugeConsciousResistanceUnconsciousBrownCelebrationNormWhiteness Author:Michael Eric Dyson
“The black socks [on me at Olympics in 1968] emphasized the fact that we had so many Blacks and people of color here in the United States, the greatest country in the world, that was running around in poverty every day, so we wanted to illustrate the fact that these individuals did not have shoes and they had to walk 20 miles to and from school every day with no shoes in the greatest country in the world.” PeopleWorldCountryStatesFactsRunningWantedSchoolIndividualBlackWalksUnitedPovertyUnited StatesColorShoesMilesOlympicsSock Author:John Carlos
“Black people ALL are fightin' you all for freedom, justice and equality. One believes that intermarriage is gonna solve it, and 200 years from now we all will be a beautiful cream color. He really believes it. One believe that gittin' some rifles and shootin' up the country is gonna solve it, another believes that education. One day we'll be the president. One believe that we gotta git into the white man's pockets and get all the money.” PeopleMenYearsBelieveCountryBeautifulBlackPresidentJusticeWhiteColorOne DaySolvePocketsBlack PeopleCreamWhite ManRiflesEquality And JusticeIntermarriage Author:Muhammad Ali
“We need to tell young people that America was built by men and women of all colors and that the future of this country is dependent on the participation of all of our citizens.” PeopleMenNeedsCountryAmericaYoungColorCitizensMen And WomenBuiltDependentParticipation Author:Walter Dean Myers