Troy Deeney Quotes

Systemic racism is a problem from every aspect of life.

Racial inequality is a big problem.

It's almost like a lot of black people in America, a lot of young black men, are born with this cloud over their heads. It's their penitentiary cloud, this philosophy we all have, that it's harder for us.

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

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.

The reason why you were allowed to get away with that in the '60s and '70s is because this country's racist administrative policies were such that rich white kids were getting exemptions. I said no exemptions.

When you allow racial disparity and institutional inequity to affect one part of the country, eventually it's coming back to get everyone.

Ours has not been a racially democratic society for 300 years.

The white man believes in equality, but apparently believes the white man is more equal than the Indian.

Tonight the Negro knows from his radio and television that a Congo native can be a locomotive engineer, but in Jackson [Mississippi] he cannot even drive a garbage truck.

I grew up black in segregated America, where it was hard to find an open door. It's harder now for young blacks to find a closed one.

If there is inequality, and that equates with colour, then I'm going to deal with it.

Yes, just by the nature of the colour of my skin, I was born with privilege. And it is unfair.

One of the founding tenets of racism: a society that will never allow white people to think that because they are white, they won't succeed.

I wanted to remind myself and others of the old Jim Crow, so that we can remind ourselves that we're still living in the new Jim Crow. I feel it's important to dress in the fashion of the times.

I think it's gonna take a sincere empathy and compassion for people of all races, to really reflect and process on the true history of the black community in this country. The history has been filled with incredible oppression and we really have to acknowledge that, to start to change the lens of how we see true equality.

We need to dismantle the systems that were built on racism, that were built on the backs of black people.

I sometimes think they should have said 'Black Lives Matter Too,' because that is really what is being said. The outcry is that historically and presently, the feeling is that black lives don't matter as much as white lives because we don't see the same type of things happening to them.

A lot of people of color and the Black Lives Matter movement will talk about what's really happening, but it seems like you can't get the black president to say something that's obvious about what's happening to black people in this country.

Anti-black racism operates at a society-wide level and colludes in a seamless web of policies, practices, and beliefs to oppress and disempower black communities.

Racial prejudice boils down to the deeply anti-American message that some people are born to fail.

I say we haven't ended racial caste in America; we have merely redesigned it.

Had it not been for the race problem early thrust upon me and enveloping me, I should have probably been an unquestioning worshipper at the shrine of the established social order and of the economic development into which I was born.

When a black person has no electricity, no water, they call it the ghetto. When white people have no electricity and no water, they call it camping.

For most Black people there is still poverty and desperation. The Ghettos still exist, and the proportion of Blacks in prison is still much greater than Whites. Today, there is less overt racism, but the economic injustices create an "institutional racism" which exists even while more Blacks are in high places, such as Condoleeza Rice in Bush's Administration and Obama running for President.