“We will continue to do this [practice of racial discrimination] until the Supreme Court says we can’t any more . . . [Then] we’ll try to find other ways to get the same result.”
- James Duderstadt , 1966.
“[Condoleezza Rice is President Bush's] ‘House Nigga’.”
- Ted Rall
“This amendment [to make English America's official language] is racist. I think it’s directed basically to people who speak Spanish.”
- Harry Reid
“The suffering [endured as a result of Hurricane Katrina] has been disproportionately borne by the weak, the poor, the elderly and infirm, and largely African Americans, who were forced by poverty, illness, unequal opportunity to stay behind and bear the brunt of the storm’s winds and floods.”
- Ted Kennedy , September 13, 2005.
“[America was set up] to help the poor, the black people, the less well off as slow as possible.”
- Kanye West
“We have to come to terms with the ugly truth that skin color, age, and economics played a deadly role in who survived [Katrina] and who did not.”
- Howard Dean , September 8, 2005.
“[The rights guaranteed under the Declaration of Independence appear to be] limited to life, liberty and happiness for white males.”
- Howard Zinn
“Our devil has pale skin and blue eyes.”
- Jose Angel Gutierrez
“There are two types of white Americans: racists and recovering racists.”
- Joe Feagin , October 2004.
“[T]he central problem is that, from the beginning, European American institutions were racially hierarchical, white supremacist, and undemocratic. For the most part, they remain so today.”
- Joe Feagin