Jamal Murray Quotes

Every day in America, African Americans are reminded of their race in ways large and small. Every day.

And I'd be lying if I told you that as a black man in baseball I hadn't gone through worse times than my teammates.

The Southern institution of racial segregation or racial separation was the correct, self-evident truth which arose from the chaos and confusion of the Reconstruction period. Separation promotes racial harmony. It permits each race to follow its own pursuits, and its own civilization. Segregation is not discrimination

It’s time we faced facts. Southern people just don’t like Black people.

I think the most harmful belief passed on to me - not always directly - was the belief that whatever I did as a Negro, however much we Negroes achieved, despite the presence of some enlightened whites, white society as a whole enjoyed being racists in the secret core of their being and would never, ever give that up.

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

I have been regularly confronted with racism, very regularly, and since my earliest childhood.

It’s no disgrace to be black, but it’s often very inconvenient.

I look at racism as one of the social demons. And, in its worst, it's violent and it's a systemic commitment to oppression.

Racism is if there are spectators or, outside the field of play, there are movements to discrimination, but, on the field of play, I deny that there is racism.

I don't think many people understand what racism is. The intellectuals use it like toilet paper; it's something they can use. It's not something they live.

There were only ever two black kids at my school. I never considered myself to be 'a black kid'. I was who I was. Which isn't to say things haven't happened to me that wouldn't have happened if I wasn't black.

I found there's a fairly blatant racism in America that's already there, and I don't think I noticed it when I lived here as a kid. But when I went back to South Africa, and then it's sort of thrust in your face, and then came back here - I just see it everywhere.

Discrimination is a hellhound that gnaws at Negroes in every waking moment of their lives to remind them that the lie of their inferiority is accepted as truth in the society dominating them.

I was told by the general manager that a white player had received a higher raise than me. Because white people required more money to live than black people. That is why I wasn't going to get a raise.

Racism always exists cheek by jowl with, inside, and alongside culture and class. As a rule, it is inseparable from them. That is why, for example, food, language and names assume such importance in racial prejudice.

Racism been over. It's the old people that keep on holding on to it.

Every single thing in my life is built around race.

My personal opinion is that you can't be racist towards white people. You can be prejudiced about them, but being prejudiced isn't an illegal act, whereas being racist can be.

Barack Obama happens to be the first African-American, and so criticism of him is and always was gonna be racism, and therefore not permitted.

As an African-American, I know all too well the negative thoughts and feelings hatred and bigotry cause.

For generations, even many otherwise decent white Southerners learned to despise black people.

I grew up in Houston, and I remember we had separate drinking fountains, and black people sat in the balcony of the theater... We had an African-American housekeeper growing up who was really like my second mother. I thought it was silly - hatred just because of the color of somebody's skin.

There will always be that dreadful monster prejudice to do extra battle against because of their color.

The reason people think it's important to be white is that they think it's important not to be black.