“We must dispel the negative and harmful atmosphere that has been created by avaricious and unprincipled realtors who engage in "blockbusting." If we had in America really serious efforts to break down discrimination in housing, and at the same time a concerted program of government aid to improve housing for Negroes, I think that many white people would be surprised at how many Negroes would choose to live among themselves, exactly as Poles and Jews and other ethnic groups do.” PeopleIfsThinkingHas BeensGovernmentWould BeAmericaWhiteEffortBreakGroupsSeriousNegativeProgramJewAidsDiscriminationAtmosphereBreaking DownHousingEthnic GroupsRealtorsGovernment Aid Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.
“It has been the White Race who has been the world builder, the maker of cities and commerce and continents. It is the White Man who is the sole builder of civilizations. It was he who build the Egyptian civilization, the great unsurpassed Roman civilization, the Greek civilization of beauty and culture, and who, after having been dealt a serious blow by a new Semitic religion, wallowed through the Dark Ages, finally extricated himself, and then build the great European civilization.” MenWorldHas BeensAgeCultureDarkWhiteRaceCitiesSeriousCivilizationBlowGreekMakersSoleContinentsCommerceWhite ManDark AgesBuilderEgyptianWhite RaceRoman CivilizationGreek CivilizationEgyptian Civilization Author:Ben Klassen
“White folk done took this country. You're in their home, and they're gonna let you know it.You are not now, nor have you ever been, nor will you ever be a brother to white folk and if you do not realize that, you are in serious trouble.” IfsKnowsCountryDoneHomeRealizingWhiteTroubleSeriousBrotherFolks Author:Jeremiah Wright
“The talk shows are stuffed full of sufferers who have regained their health--congressmen who suffered through a serious spell of boozing and skirt-chasing, White House aides who were stricken cruelly with overweening ambition, movie stars and baseball players who came down with acute cases of wanting to trash hotel rooms while under the influence of recreational drugs. Most of them have found God, or at least a publisher.” ShowsFoundHouseStarsWhiteRoomsCasesPlayerInfluenceSeriousDrugAmbitionBaseballHotelWhite HouseSpellsPublishersChasingMovie StarTrashSkirtsBaseball PlayerCongressmanTalk ShowsHotel RoomsSufferersRecreational Drugs Author:Calvin Trillin
“When I was a kid, my goodness, corporate America was a bunch of stolid white guys in gray suits trying to be serious, and now it's stolid white guys in gray suits trying to be funny.” TryingKidsAmericaGuyWhiteSeriousGoodnessBunchSuitsCorporateGrayWhite GuysCorporate America Author:Emo Philips
“I think the way you can tell if a guy and girl are in a serious relationship is whether or not they have black and white pictures of themselves together. That's the real test. Because it takes effort to get nice black and white photos. If you've gone that far, there's no turning back.” IfsThinkingWayRealTogetherGuyGirlBlackWhiteEffortGoneNiceSeriousTestsBlack And WhiteNo Turning BackSerious Relationship Author:Aaron Karo
“It's no surprise that at the same time that American universities have engaged in a serious commitment to diversity, they have been thought-prisons. We are not talking about diversity in any real way. We are talking about brown, black, white versions of the same political ideology.” WayHas BeensRealPoliticalBlackWhiteTalkingSeriousDiversityCommitmentPrisonSurpriseUniversityVersionsIdeologyEngagedBrownNot TalkingBlack WhitePolitical IdeologyAmerican Universities Author:Richard Rodriguez
“It's deeply rooted in the American psyche. Black men have always been viewed as the other, which leads to a different application of the laws. The current laws are an obscenity. More black men are locked up for using pot than white folk are for far more serious crimes.” MenDifferentLawBlackWhiteCrimeSeriousFolksCurrentsPotApplicationLockedRootedLocked UpObscenity Author:Marian Wright Edelman
“He was making a very serious point. Donald Trump has a way of talking to get people's attention, and it's drawn attention to a very important issue.There was a time when a Democrat president knew where the buck stopped in the White House. And the responsibility for the failed policies in the Middle East that created the environment where ISIS developed belongs to President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, and the American people know that.” PeopleKnowsWayImportantStatesHousePresidentWhiteAttentionResponsibilityTalkingIssuesEnvironmentMiddlePolicySeriousTrumpClintonDemocratEastBarackWhite HouseMiddle EastSecretaryIsisBucksPresident Barack ObamaImportant IssuesWay Of Talking Author:Mike Pence
“Remember chief of staff Rahm Emanuel's callous enjoinder 'you never want a serious crisis to go to waste'? This White House is a serious crisis.” WantRememberHouseWhiteSeriousWasteCrisisChiefsWhite HouseStaffCallousChief Of Staff Author:Bob Tyrrell
“As long as the White House is deadly serious, which they tell me they are, I'll help them anyway I can.” LongI CanHelpingHouseWhiteSeriousWhite House Author:John Kasich
“So if you are a Republican and you just can't abide [Donald] Trump - which means you're not serious about stopping Hillary [Clinton]; you're not serious about keeping her out of the White House - then people should vote for you because you?” PeopleIfsShouldMeanHouseWhiteSeriousTrumpRepublicanVoteClintonWhite HouseStopping Author:Rush Limbaugh
“The repealing and replacing of Obamacare is very complicated. It is what a White House and congressional leadership, serious White House and serious congressional leadership, should meet on and work on and figure out a strategy of, and it may work and it may not. Obviously not every administration gets things through, even when they have much larger majorities in congress and a much larger popular vote than Donald Trump had.” ShouldMayHouseWhiteFiguresSeriousTrumpVoteMajorityStrategyCongressComplicatedAdministrationWhite HouseObamacarePopular VoteRepealing Author:William Kristol
“That is my job as an intellectual, as an extension of my vocation: to engage in a serious reckoning with the present manifestation of both white supremacy, white refusal to acknowledge culpability, and the attempts of black people to re-describe the harm and trauma we've endured, as well as to say afresh what it is that must be done if we are to be conscientious.” PeopleIfsWellsDoneJobsBlackWhiteSeriousIntellectualTraumaHarmAcknowledgeManifestationBlack PeopleExtensionsVocationWhite SupremacyRefusalSupremacyReckoningCulpability Author:Michael Eric Dyson