Florence Chitauro Quotes

Slavery was our original sin. Race, our continuing dilemma.

My parents told me in the very beginning as a young child when I raised the question about segregation and racial discrimination, they told me not to get in the way, not to get in trouble, not to make any noise.

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.

Stated briefly, the problem confronting the colored peoples of the world is how to live in freedom, peace and security without being invaded, subjugated, expropriated, persecuted and humiliated by Caucasians justifying their actions by the myth of racial superiority..

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

It’s a sordid business this divvying us up by race.

What whites cannot experience and may never understand is that no matter which side of the bed I chose to wake up on, I would still be a black man in the racially divisive America.

The supremacy of the white race of the South must be maintained forever, and the domination of the negro race resisted at all points and at all hazards, because the white race is the superior race... This declaration shall run forever with the blood that feeds Anglo-Saxon hearts

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.

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

In all the relations of life and death, we are met by the color line.

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.

The country has come a long way in race relations, but the pendulum swings so far back. Everyone wants to be so sensitive.

I think sports is one of the places where race plays itself out publicly. Although we pretend it doesn't.

Will he get a place for his oldest boy? He can not. His girl? Why, the Chinaman is in her place too!

I also know that while I am black I am a human being, and therefore I have the right to go into any public place. White people didn't know that. Every time I tried to go into a place they stopped me.

Our capital system is haunted by the demon of error: error in determining guilt and error in determining who among the guilty deserves to die. What effect was race having? What effect was poverty having?

Racism, because it favors color over talent, is bad for business.

The fight still isn't people of colour versus white. It's the people versus the system built to keep us down. That's the first line of the Constitution. And the system is manmade but is made of no man. Everyone, regardless of class, creed, culture and ethnicity can fight the system and help to break it down.

Racism is an ism to which everyone in the world today is exposed; for or against, we must take sides. And the history of the future will differ according to the decision which we make.

Race in America is not a problem you can go over, or around or under. You've got to go through it.

Most people don't think about race as much as I do. They don't have to.

Any time I saw people treated unfairly because of race, creed, whatever - it struck a nerve.

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.

The only white man you can trust is a dead white man.