Marcia L. Fudge Quotes

Black Lives Matter is the culmination of racial divide. They're nothing more than the last socially acceptable hate group in America.

The race problem in the United States is the type of unpleasant problem which we would rather do without but which refuses to be buried.

There's not a racial divide in the city of Ferguson.

Racism has been for everyone like a horrible, tragic car crash, and we've all been heavily sedated from it. If we don't come into consciousness of this tragedy, there's going to be a violent awakening we don't want. The question is, can we wake up?

The fact that our country, the greatest country in the world, remains mired in race relations issues in the year 2014 is an embarrassment.

I am not sure the issue of race in America will ever be completely solved.

Black people beating whites when a thug got shot holding a gun by a black officer haha (expletive) cracks me up! Keep kneeling for the anthem!

The fallout from slavery is ongoing. I am not sure the issue of race in America will ever be completely solved.

While the old spiritual 'Slavery Chain Done Broke at Last' was sung by blacks in the hours following the Appomattox surrender, racism sadly continues to be a crippling national scourge.

If acknowledging that racial misgivings and misunderstandings are still a part of politics and life in America, I plead guilty.

I do not think white America is committed to granting equality to the American Negro. This is a passionately racist country; it will continue to be so in the foreseeable future.

To the great majority of white Americans, the Negro problem has distinctly negative connotations. It suggests something difficult to settle and equally difficult to leave alone. It is embarrassing. It makes for moral uneasiness.

I grew up here, and it's always been a very diverse community. So for people to come out and say that there's some long-standing anger or there's a history of racial tension is absolutely ridiculous. There's not a black-white divide in Ferguson.

In spite of what some people claim, we are not in a post-racial era. I think it's still an important issue to bring up.

The problem of the Twentieth Century is the problem of the color-line.

The black world squirms beneath the feet of the white in impotent fury or sullen hate.

Although the race problem may seem to lie dormant at times, it continually exists, lives on and on and sometimes rages with all the fury of a jungle beast. It gnaws at the very vitals of our existence, in time it will sap our strength and destroy the greatness of our American way of life unless solved properly and permanently.

We never discuss race until something bad happens.

In today’s environment, anyone to the right of Black Lives Matter gets accused of making common cause with David Duke.

You get racism crossing the street; it's in the very fabric of American society.

Although slavery may have been abolished, the crippling poison of racism still persists, and the struggle still continues.

The Ferguson Grand Jury's decision not to indict Officer Darren Wilson in the death of Michael Brown is a miscarriage of justice. It is a slap in the face to Americans nationwide who continue to hope and believe that justice will prevail.

Unfortunately, in places like Ferguson, in New York City and in some communities across this nation, there is a disconnect between police agencies and the citizens they serve, predominately in communities of color.

There is some group of Americans who are really, really curious to understand how we ended up at this point, where every week it seems like you can turn on your TV and see some sort of abuse being heaped on black people.

On any given day, there's always something I'd rather be doing than facing the ugly, racist underbelly of America.