“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
“Whether youre president or speaker, if youre wrong, we need to stand up and point it out. Thats what Martin Luther King had talked about: being judged by the content of our character and not the color of our skin. So some of us pounded away on some of the ridiculous policies of Pelosi - and lo and behold, over time, the public began to see.” IfsNeedsCharacterPresidentPolicyColorKingsSkinsRidiculousJudgedSpeakersLutherBeing Judged Author:Louie Gohmert
“Three of the last four [elections], '06, '08, and '12, were disastrous for Republicans. And they were years in which we just we stayed quiet, we went along the get-along, we didn't stand on principle. The only year that was a good year for Republicans was 2010, when we painted in bold colors, not in pale pastels. We stood for principle. I think winning this fight right now is the most important thing we can do to see significant victories in 2014.” ThinkingYearsImportantLastsPoliticalFightingThreePoliticsWinningCan DoCommunityLeadershipJusticePartyPrinciplesFourPolicyColorVictoryRepublicanRight NowQuietElectionImportant ThingsStrategyUnitySignificantIdeologyVotingPalePolitical PartiesPartisanshipGood YearsPastel Author:Ted Cruz
“The American color bar unless speedily removed will be the rock on which our international Good Neighbor policy and our pious claims to moral leadership will founder.” MoralRocksPolicyColorClaimsInternationalNeighborBarsFoundersPiousGood NeighborMoral Leadership Author:Charles Hamilton Houston
“If a liberal policy towards the late Rebels is adopted, the ultra Republicans are opposed to it; if the colored people are honored, the extremists of the other wing cry out against it. I suspect I am right in both cases.” PeopleIfsCasesCryPolicyColorRepublicanLateWingsSuspectsRebelHonoredAdoptedExtremistReconstructionUltras Author:Rutherford B. Hayes
“When you teach a man to hate and fear his brother, when you teach that he is a lesser man because of his color or his beliefs or the policies he pursues, when you teach that those who differ from you threaten your freedom or your job or your family, then you also learn to confront others not as fellow citizens but as enemies...” MenHomeJobsHateBeliefEnemyTeachPolicyColorBrotherCitizensFellowsPursueOur FamilyBigotryThreateningYour Freedom Author:Robert Kennedy
“The standard progressive approach of the moment is to mix color-conscious moral invective with color-blind public policy.” MomentsMoralPolicyColorApproachStandardsConsciousBlindProgressivePublic Policy Author:Ta-Nehisi Coates
“The New Deal never rethought the draconian racist immigration restriction policies of the 20s, of course, but its electoral base rested significantly on "ethnic" voters, whose activism was both hemmed in and rewarded by the Democrats. Southern and Eastern Europeans were included as secondary leaders of the new industrial unions, and as entitled citizens qualified for social security, unemployment compensation, and fair labor standards protections, even as workers of color were largely left out of key areas of the welfare state.” StatesCoursesLeftSocialDealsLeaderSecurityPolicyColorKeysCitizensStandardsAreasFairsLaborUnionsDemocratWorkersProtectionActivismImmigrationWelfareRacistVotersSouthernEntitledUnemploymentEasternSocial SecurityQualifiedCompensationRestrictionLeft OutWelfare StateNew DealDraconian Author:David Roediger
“Take crack cocaine. Particularly in the early days of the policy, ninety percent of the people being arrested were black, even though they didn't use the drug at higher rates and even though their numbers in the general population are so low. How could that be? The thing is, you place all your resources in communities of color. And if you do that, you're going to arrest black people.” PeopleIfsUseBlackCommunityNumbersPolicyColorHigherDrugLowsPercentResourcesRatePopulationCracksBlack PeopleNinetyArrestedCocaine Author:Carl Hart
“Certainly youth of color, particularly those in ghetto communities, find themselves born into the cage. They are born into a community in which the rules, laws, policies, structures of their lives virtually guarantee that they will remain trapped for life. It begins at a very early age when their parents themselves are either behind bars or locked in a permanent second-class status and cannot afford them the opportunities they otherwise could.” AgeLawOpportunityParentBornCommunityBehindsClassPolicyYouthColorStructureBarsPermanentGuaranteesLockedTrappedCagesGhettoGuarantees ThatClass Status Author:Michelle Alexander
“The president of the United States is a pretty important position, and it's the ideas and policies that matter to me, not the color of their skin.” ImportantIdeasMatterStatesPresidentUnitedUnited StatesPolicyPositionColorSkins Author:Rush Limbaugh