“The way we have to measure progress is not, "Is there ever going to be an incident of racism in the country?" It's, "How does the majority of our country respond?"” WayDoeCountryProgressRacismMajorityOur CountryIncidents Author:Barack Obama
“The most persistent of all attractive illusions in our country may be that racism can be ended by one single blow.” MayCountryRacismIllusionBlowOur CountryAttractivePersistent Author:McGeorge Bundy
“If you admit to being racist, it says you acknowledge that you are being driven by projections and stereotypes that were formed in the creation of our country. Racism is deeply rooted in America.” IfsCountryAmericaCreationRacismDrivenOur CountryAcknowledgeRacistRootedStereotypeProjection Author:Claudia Rankine
“Patriotism at the expense of another nation is as wicked as racism at the expense of another race. . . Let us resolve to be patriots always, nationalists never. Let us love our country, but pledge allegiance to the earth and to the flora and fauna and human life that it supports - one planet indivisible, with clean air,... soil and water; with liberty, justice and peace for all.” LoveLifeHumansCountryEarthNationsPeaceWaterJusticeFreedomRaceLibertySupportAirPlanetsRacismCleanOur CountryHuman LifeSoilWickedNationalismResolvePatrioticExpensesPatriotPledgeAllegiancePeace And JusticeIndivisibleFloraClean AirIt SupportFlora And Fauna Author:William Sloane Coffin
“I think back to when I was growing up in Fort Worth, Texas, in the 1950s, during the [John] McCarthy era, with two parents who founded a Unitarian Church. We lived in a little frame house, and my bedroom was just down the hall from the kitchen. My favorite memories of childhood are of the smell of coffee wafting into my bedroom as my parents and their friends talked about the big, important things - about racism and about how to move our country to live its values.” ThinkingLittlesTwoImportantCountryBigsMovingValuesHouseParentChurchMemoriesGrowing UpGrowingChildhoodRacismImportant ThingsMy FavoriteSmellCoffeeOur CountryErasKitchenHallsTexasBedroomChildhood MemoriesFortsUnitarianFavorite MemoriesUnitarian ChurchFort Worth Author:Frances Moore Lappé
“Racism in our countries is a fact in that the indian is not allowed to be a politician or aspire to being head of state. It has reached the point that 99% of the indigenous women have not gone to school. The indigenous are condemned to live in a situation designed to exterminate them. They receive a pittance of a salary, they neither speak nor write the language, politics dictates their situation. Is this slavery? I don't know what it's called. It is not the same as before because we are in modern times.” KnowsWritingCountryStatesFactsSchoolSpeakLanguageSituationGoneModernPoliticianRacismSlaveryOur CountryIndianAspireIndigenousSalaryModern TimesHead Of State Author:Rigoberta Menchu
“In today's climate in our country, which is sickened with the pollution of pollution, threatened with the prominence of AIDS, riddled with burgeoning racism, rife with growing huddles of the homeless, we need art and we need art in all forms. We need all methods of art to be present, everywhere present, and all the time present.” NeedsArtCountryTodayAmericaFormTimeFightingGrowingRacismMethodClimateAidsOur CountryPollutionHomelessThreatenedHivHiv AidsProminenceWorld Aids DayAids Day Author:Maya Angelou
“Everything now, we must assume, is in our hands; we have no right to assume otherwise. If we do not falter in our duty now, we may be able, handful that we are, to end the racial nightmare, and achieve our country, and change the history of the world.” IfsWorldMayEndsCountryHandsAbleHistoryAchieveDutyRacismAssumingOur CountryNightmareWorld HistoryHandful Author:James A. Baldwin
“We have to build things that we want to see accomplished, in life and in our country, based on our own personal experiences ... to make sure that others ... do not have to suffer the same discrimination.” WantCountrySufferingRacismDiscriminationOur CountryAccomplishedPersonal Experiences Author:Patsy Mink
“If we're going to address trafficking in our country we have to address poverty, racism & gender based violence.” IfsCountryPovertyViolenceRacismGenderOur CountryAddressesTrafficking Author:Rachel Lloyd