Lori Lightfoot Quotes

I cannot imagine what it must feel like to be treated differently because of the color of my skin.

Baby, black promoters oppressed me before white promoters ever got hold of me. Don't talk skin to me.

I have never been able to discover anything disgraceful in being a colored man. But I have often found it inconvenient - in America.

As far back as I can remember, I knew there was something wrong with our way of life when people could be mistreated because of the color of their skin.

We need to recognize that racism has never been subtle, though it has gone underreported.

As I often say, we have come a long way from the days of slavery, but in 2014, discrimination and inequality still saturate our society in modern ways. Though racism may be less blatant now in many cases, its existence is undeniable.

All the grand work was laid for people who came after me. The Supreme Court decided not to give it to me, so they gave it to two white guys. I think that's what they were waiting for.

He was murdered by every member of the gospel who has remained silent about racial discrimination—who has hidden behind the stained glass windows of his church.. He was murdered by every Negro who accepted segregation.

… a sieve with holes just big enough for the majority of Negroes to fall through

I had been out of college and in real life but four years when I realized that the Democracy which I had enjoyed at dear old Harvard was not secure for Americans of Color, just because of their pigmentation.

You spend your whole lifetime in your occupation, actually making life clever, easy and convenient for white people. But when you have to get transportation home, you are denied an equal accommodation. Our existence was for the white man's comfort and well-being; we had to accept being deprived of just being human.

In the South, there is more overt racism. It's more willfully ignorant and brazen. But it's not as if by moving I'm going to be able to escape institutionalized racism. It's not as though my life won't be twisted and impacted by racism anymore. It will.

I think the traditional stereotypes are loaded in institutional racism.

Some issues just need to be dealt with - that we're still dealing with in the world, with police brutality and racism.

Far too often, I have been accepted or rejected for work because of the color of my skin.

The reality is we have allowed systemic racism to continue through all these years.

I've worked at a Game Stop and had my service turned down before because of the color of my skin. And it's a shame.

Color does matter, even though people don't see it. I've lived it my whole life. It's just what I know.

Prejudice is not just a personal sentiment - it can be institutional too.

The only difference between me and those other great Yankees is my skin color.

We African Americans have now spent the major part of the 20th Century battling racism.

Racism is a way to gain economic advantage at the expense of others. Slavery and plantations may be gone, but racism still allows us to regard those who may keep us from financial gain as less than equals.

If you are white, racism is too easily ignored and forgiven, regarded as of burning concern only to the ethnic minorities, and therefore of relatively marginal significance.

I have walked into the palaces of kings and queens and into the houses of presidents. And much more. But I could not walk into a hotel in America and get a cup of coffee, and that made me mad.

Racism, unfortunately, is part of the fabric of America's society.