Racial justice is key to a compassionate, inclusive, dynamic society.
Whatever Lincoln's racial views, which are not totally modern and egalitarian in many ways, he believes blacks should have this natural right to improve their condition in life and slavery denies that to them.
America is racial. America was founded on race. Race is America. The code name for America is 'race. '
Ramadan is a celebration of a faith known for great diversity and racial equality
We could do something set in the 21st century, where I travel around to lots of different places and we talk to different ethnicities and lots of different racial and religious minorities, so it's not just the black-and-white America; it hasn't been that since the '90s.
One question we must consider today is how we can take action to unify our nation, heal racial division, end poverty and give real-life meaning to the constitutional mandate that there be equal protection under law.
My book had a universal theme. It's not a "racial" novel. It portrays an aspect of civilization, not necessarily Southern civilization.
That so called "original sin" does not know any racial discrimination.
This is what happens with a breakthrough. The first ones through the door often get bruised if not broken. Eventually, with a little political acumen and racial sensitivity and a lot of hard work, a smooth new place can emerge.
Exaggerated self-importance is deemed an individual fault, but a racial virtue.
Trans women of color dangerously fall in between the cracks of racial justice, feminist and LGbt movements.
If parents snicker at racial and gender jokes, another generation will pass on the poison adults still have not had the courage to snuff out.
The fact is, the most painful and tragic lesson of the 20th century was that regimes based on racial superiority and religious hatred can't be trusted to keep their word to the international community.
We expect that 25 years from now, the use of racial preferences will no longer be necessary to further the interest approved today.
I think that most minorities have experienced some form of racial abuse.
So why is the sex barrier not taken as seriously as the racial one?
You can be a good person without any racial intent and still want to keep the flag. That's what I learned in my time in the south.
The most common ego identifications have to do with possessions, the work you do, social status and recognition, knowledge and education, physical appearance, special abilities, relationships, person and family history, belief systems, and often nationalistic, racial, religious, and other collective identifications. None of these is you.
Silhouettes are reductions, and racial stereotypes are also reductions of actual human beings.
No one, and the liberal cognoscenti least of all, wants to look at why, after decades of throwing money at a rotting educational establishment and years of racial preferences black students are worse off than ever.