“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
“Our freedom must be buttressed by a homogeny equally and unchallengeably free, no matter what color they are, so that all the other inimical forces everywhere -- systems political or religious or racial or national -- will not just respect us because we practice freedom, they will fear us because we do.” MatterPoliticalForceReligiousPracticeColorNo Matter What Book:Essays, Speeches & Public Letters Source: Essays, Speeches & Public Letters
“The suggestion of denying any measure of their full political rights to such a great group of our population as the colored people is one which, however it might be received in some other quarters, could not possibly be permitted by one who feels a responsibility for living up to the traditions and maintaining the principles of the Republican Party. Our Constitution guarantees equal rights to all our citizens, without discrimination on account of race or color. I have taken my oath to support that Constitution.” FeelsMightPoliticalPartyRaceResponsibilityPrinciplesSupportTakenRightsGroupsColorCitizensRepublicanEqualTraditionAccountsConstitutionPopulationDiscriminationCivil RightsAfrican AmericanGuaranteesQuartersSuggestionsRepublican PartyMaintainingEqual RightsOathPolitical Rights Author:Calvin Coolidge
“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
“Whether you want it or not, your genes have a political past, your skin a political tone. your eyes a political color. ... you walk with political steps on political ground.” WantEyePastPoliticalPoliticsWalksStepsColorSkinsToneGenes Author:Wislawa Szymborska
“In Sumter and other counties [in South Carolina] the whites are resorting to intimidation and violence to prevent the colored people from organizing for the elections. The division there is still on the color line. Substantially all the whites are Democrats and all the colored people are Republicans. There is no political principle in dispute between them. The whites have the intelligence, the property, and the courage which make power. The negroes are for the most part ignorant, poor, and timid. My view is that the whites must be divided there before a better state of things will prevail.” PeopleStillsStatesPoliticalPoliticsLinesPoorViewsPrinciplesViolenceColorRepublicanRelationElectionPropertyDemocratSouthIgnorantAfrican AmericanDivisionDividedDisputesRace RelationsCountyCarolinaIntimidationSouth Carolina Author:Rutherford B. Hayes
“We have entered an Orwellian era in which entitlement replaces responsibility, coercion is described as compassion, compulsory redistribution is called sharing, race quotas substitute for diversity, and suicide is prescribed as 'death with dignity.' Political discourse has become completely corrupted. The reason is that if you tell people directly that you want to raise their taxes, transfer their wealth, count them by skin color, or let doctors kill them, most will object. Statists know this and therefore are obliged to obfuscate.” PeopleIfsKnowsWantReasonPoliticalPoliticsWealthRaceResponsibilityCompassionObjectsColorTaxesDiversityDignityDoctorsSkinsRaisesSuicideErasSubstitutesDiscourseObligedCoercionEntitlementTransfersCompulsorySkin ColorQuotaOrwellianPolitical DiscourseDeath With Dignity Author:Theodore J. Forstmann
“Political correctness sometimes does great work when it helps equalize the playing field when it comes to language, but it does a great disservice when it tries to silence a person of color.” TryingPersonsDoeSometimesHelpingPoliticalLanguageSilenceFieldsColorGreat WorkPolitical CorrectnessCorrectnessPlaying FieldsDisservice Author:Margaret Cho
“I think that sexual pleasure and the weird color of the sky after a storm or the stream of tail lights across the bridge or the way silence can thin or thicken before music starts - all these things have to be harnessed by the political. The libidinal has to be harnessed by the political.” ThinkingWayLightPoliticalPleasureSilenceSkyColorStormBridgesStreamsTails Author:Ben Lerner
“The Republican base is now made up of religious and neoconservative ideologues, and the uneducated white underclass with a token person of color or two up front on TV to obscure the all-white, all reactionary all backward — there-is-no-global-warming — rube reality. Actual conservatives, let alone the educated classes, have long since fled.” PersonsLongMadeTwoRealityPoliticalReligiousWhiteClassFrontsColorTvsRepublicanConservativeEducatedFilmmakerGlobal WarmingObscureBackwardsRedneckReactionariesTokensUneducatedIdeologues Author:Frank Schaeffer
“We have to remember examples of many artists of conscious rap who have been coopted by the Department of State of the United States to be cultural ambassadors in different parts of the world, like Syria, like other parts of the Middle East, including conscious Islamic-American rappers that are representing an international political agenda for the United States through cultures more affable for people of color in other parts of the world.” PeopleWorldHas BeensDifferentStatesRememberPoliticalArtistCultureUnitedUnited StatesMiddleExampleColorConsciousIncludingInternationalRapEastIslamicDepartmentAgendasRapperMiddle EastSyriaRepresentingAmbassadorsPolitical AgendasAffableConscious Rap Author:Bocafloja
“A lot of the exercise of embracing identity as a political affirmation is not just simply parked in the question of skin color or culture, but more it is a political affirmation with all these implications and more.” PoliticalCultureIdentityColorExerciseSkinsAffirmationImplicationsSkin Color Author:Bocafloja
“Until justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is unconcerned with the color of men's skins, emancipation will be a proclamation but not a fact.” MenFactsPoliticalOpportunityPoliticsJusticeRaceColorSkinsBlindEmancipationProclamationUnawarenessUnconcernedEmancipation ProclamationRace And Color Author:Lyndon B. Johnson
“Where did the concept of "without borders" come from? No one had that concept until you saw Earth from space, illustrated not by a mapmaker who's color-coding political boundaries; it's illustrated by nature itself and there's land, there's ocean, there's atmosphere.” EarthPoliticalSpaceSawsLandColorOceanConceptsBoundariesAtmosphereBorders Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson
“The mass incarceration of poor people of color, particularly black men, has emerged as a new caste system, one specifically designed to address the social, economic, and political challenges of our time.” PeopleMenPoliticalSocialBlackChallengesPoorEconomicColorMassOur TimeAddressesPoor PeopleCastesIncarcerationCaste SystemMass Incarceration Author:Michelle Alexander
“We are in a social and political context in which the norm is to punish poor folks of color rather than to educate and empower them with economic opportunity.” PoliticalOpportunitySocialPoorEconomicColorFolksEmpoweringEducateNorm Author:Michelle Alexander
“When you are a marginalized person or a woman of color and/or someone who's a part of the LGBTQ community, your acts become politicized, just by being yourself. Because we're not completely accepting of all different kinds of human beings. By being myself, I'm doing something political.” HumansKindPersonsDifferentPoliticalCommunityHuman BeingsAcceptingColorBeing YourselfDifferent KindsBeing MyselfMarginalized Author:Amandla Stenberg
“Vocations which we wanted to pursue, but didn't, bleed, like colors, on the whole of our existence.” WritingWholeWantedPoliticalExistenceColorExperiencePursueVocation Author:Honore de Balzac
“I have sung for Americans of every political persuasion, and I am proud that I never refuse to sing to an audience, no matter what religion or color of their skin, or situation in life.” MatterPoliticalReligionSituationAudienceColorProudSkinsNo Matter WhatRefusePersuasionSituations In LifePower Of Persuasion Author:Pete Seeger
“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