#racial

Her father was an intimidating man who held fast to his belief in his African heritage; that black should not marry white to avoid racial confusion. She was in love with a white man whose mother wished to keep her family's heritage intact by not crossbreeding with another race. ↗

— Katherine Vogel

#bwwm #interracial-romance #family

The wave of new productive enterprises would provide opportunities to remedy the unjust distribution of environmental hazards among economic classes and racial and ethnic communities. ↗

— Barry Commoner

#classes #communities #distribution #economic #enterprises

Ending racial discrimination in jury selection can be accomplished only by eliminating peremptory challenges entirely. ↗

— Thurgood Marshall

#challenges #discrimination #eliminating #ending #entirely

Clearly, the Obama presidency hasn't wiped out racial prejudices. ↗

— Ron Fournier

#hasn #obama #obama presidency #out #prejudices

I think racial profiling is wrong. It cannot be defended. It's just flat wrong. And if a matter came before me, and it could be established that the arrest was made strictly on racial profiling, when I was on the bench, it would be gone. ↗

— Judge Mills Lane

#before #bench #came #cannot #could

If a player is racially insulted, he should have the right to leave the field. ↗

— Ruud Gullit

#insulted #leave #player #racially #right

When I played, I received racial abuse but I was just one of a few black players and we weren't backed up by the authorities. ↗

— Ruud Gullit

#authorities #backed #black #few #i

A social problem is one that concerns the way in which people live together in one society. A racial problem is a problem which confronts two different races who live in two separate societies, even if those societies are side by side. ↗

— Pauline Hanson

#confronts #different #even #live #people

I had to endure the worst time of all in terms of racial discrimination in Hollywood when I first started out. It was inconcievable to American directors and producers that a Mexican woman could have a lead role. ↗

— Salma Hayek

#could #directors #discrimination #endure #first

We also thought of ourselves in racial and largely ethnic terms. ↗

— Samuel P. Huntington

#ethnic #largely #ourselves #racial #terms