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“I received a most amusing postcard the other morning. Unfortunately, it was not signed in a readable manner so I cannot answer it privately. But it comes from Moblie, Ala., and says: 'Dear Mrs. Roosevelt: You have not answered my question, the amount of Negro blood you have in your veins, if any.' I am afraid none of us know how much nor what kind of blood we have in our veins, since chemically it is all the same. And most of us cannot trace our ancestry more than a few generations.”

Ifs Knows Kind Answers Morning Know How Generations Blood Amount Racism Dear Veins Amusing Ancestry Postcards

Book:Eleanor Roosevelt's My Day: First lady of the world, her acclaimed columns, 1953-1962

Source: Eleanor Roosevelt's My Day: First lady of the world, her acclaimed columns, 1953-1962

“For many Native Americans across the land, the name of the Washington football team is a deeply personal reminder of a legacy of racism and generations of pain.”

Pain Names Generations Team Land Football Racism Legacy Native Native American Reminders Football Team

Author:Dan Maffei

“A transplanted Irishman, German, Englishman is an American in one generation. A transplanted African is not one in five!”

United States Five Generations Racism Englishmen Irishmen

Author:Barbara Chase-Riboud

“I'M ANGRY because the stories of injustice that have been passed down for generations seem to be continuing before our very eyes.”

Has Beens Stories Seems Eye Generations Racism Angry Injustice Continuing

Book:Under Our Skin: Getting Real about Race. Getting Free from the Fears and Frustrations that Divide Us.

Source: Under Our Skin: Getting Real about Race. Getting Free from the Fears and Frustrations that Divide Us.

“There are still generations of people, older people, who were born and bred and marinated in it, in that prejudice and racism, and they just have to die.”

People Stills Dies Born Generations Racism Prejudice Older People

Author:Oprah Winfrey

“American fighters of the Pacific War were not heroes. The desperation of island combat included exchanged barbarities of which no one would willingly speak for a generation. On the American side, there were foul racism, vengeful refusals to take prisoners, a generalized brutality that extended to a savage air war.”

War Speak Sides Generations Air Hero Racism Fighter Islands Prisoner Combat Savages Desperation Refusal Brutality Foul Pacific Vengeful Barbarity

Author:James Carroll

“I don't want to see trickle down racism. I don't want to see a president of the United States saying things which change the character of the generations of Americans that are following. Presidents have an impact on the nature of our nature. And trickle down racism, trickle down bigotry, and trickle down misogyny, all these extraordinarily dangerous to the heart and character of America.”

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Author:Mitt Romney

“Let it never be said by future generations that indifference, cynicism or selfishness made us fail to live up to the ideals of humanism which the Nobel Peace Prize encapsulates. Let the strivings of us all, prove Martin Luther King Jr. to have been correct, when he said that humanity can no longer be tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war.”

“Our theme for this year's festivities, Dreams and Challenges of Asian Pacific Americans, speaks to the many generations of Asian Pacific Americans who worked hard to overcome economic hardship, racism and other barriers in their pursuit of the American dream.”

Years Hard Dream Speak Challenges Generations Economic Racism Overcoming Pursuit Theme Barriers Racist Hardship American Dream Asian Pacific Festivities

Author:Lucille Roybal-Allard

“My generation's apathy. I'm disgusted with it. I'm disgusted with my own apathy too, for being spineless and not always standing up against racism, sexism and all those other -isms the counterculture has been whining about for years.”

“The problem is that white people see racism as conscious hate, when racism is bigger than that. Racism is a complex system of social and political levers and pulleys set up generations ago to continue working on the behalf of whites at other people's expense, whether whites know/like it or not. Racism is an insidious cultural disease. It is so insidious that it doesn't care if you are a white person who likes Black people; it's still going to find a way to infect how you deal with people who don't look like you.”

“If parents snicker at racial and gender jokes, another generation will pass on the poison adults still have not had the courage to snuff out.”

Ifs Stills Parent Family Generations Racism Jokes Adults My Family Gender Poison Role Models About Family Snuff Snickers Ending Racism

Book:The Measure of our Success: A Letter to My Children and Yours

Source: The Measure of our Success: A Letter to My Children and Yours

“The really important victory of the civil rights movement was that it made racism unpopular, whereas a generation ago at the turn of the last century, you had to embrace racism to get elected to anything.”

Made Important Lasts Turns Rights Generations Century Movement Victory Racism Embrace Civil Rights Racist Civil Rights Movement Civil Right Movement

Author:Carol Moseley Braun

“Negro servants have been smuggling odds and ends out of white homes for generations, and white people have been delighted to have them do it, because it has assuaged a dim guilt and testified to the intrinsic superiority of white people.”

People Has Beens Ends Home White Generations Racism Guilt Servant Odds Superiority Delighted Smuggling Odds And Ends

Author:James A. Baldwin