Dabo Swinney Quotes

The roots of racism lie deep in man's nature, wounded and bruised by original sin.

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.

We are still a nation deeply divided by race and class.

Segregation is evil; there is no pattern of life which can dehumanize men as can the way of segregation.

We live in a world where racism hasn't changed at all. It's that old thing of, you know, the more things change, the more things remain the same.

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.

Racism is a part of human nature, and you're not going to eradicate it; all you can do is try to keep it in check.

Racism can be called our nation's own specific 'original sin.'

We have seen communities cry out in pain, generation after generation, because of racism and police brutality.

I'm not a docile, complacent person when it comes to racial aggressions.

Systemic racism is something that diminishes all of us. Of course its worst effects are for its victims, but our entire country is held back through the inequality and the mistrust that it creates.

Racism is the lowest, most crudely primitive form of collectivism.

Everybody sins, Francis. The terrible thing is that we love our sins. We love the thing that makes us evil.

The government has a history of not treating people fairly, from the internment of Japanese Americans in World War II to African-Americans in the Civil Rights era.

Evil is the shadow of angel. Just as there are angels of light, support, guidance, healing and defense, so we have experiences of shadow angels. And we have names for them: racism, sexism, homophobia are all demons - but they're not out there.

I hear people say it affected your self-esteem to be segregated. It never affected mine.

This whole notion of a post racial America was nonsense from the very beginning. It was a bad idea, a bad notion, a bad formulation when it was first raised.

People get bent out of shape about the fact that when I was a kid, you could not drink out of certain water fountains. Well, the water was the same.

We are not anti-white. But we don't have time for the white man. The white man is on top already, the white man is the boss already... he has first-class citizenship already. So you are wasting your time talking to the white man. We are working on our own people.

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

Racism is a moral catastrophe, most graphically seen in the prison industrial complex and targeted police surveillance in black and brown ghettos rendered invisible in public discourse.

Black people are inferior to Caucasians. Blacks constitute a totally distinct group; they overshadow the country with the germ... of evil.

Negroes are human beings with exactly the same faults and virtues as members of the other races.

Somebody must show that the Afro-American race is more sinned against than sinning, and it seems to have fallen upon me to do so.

Race hate isn't human nature; race hate is the abandonment of human nature.