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2. “Considering the popularity of soaps with the African-American audience, it's grotesque that the entertainment industry, for all its vaunted liberalism, is lagging so far behind social changes in the United States. And why has there never been an all-black daytime network soap? It would probably blow the white soaps off the map.”
Camille Paglia
Entertainment, Race, Media, African-American, Society
6. “I don't think the Tea Party people are racist, except maybe a tiny portion of them. But there has been a deliberate effort - again, referring to Fox Broadcasting - to inject the race issue into it. They have actually called Obama a racist on television.” Jimmy Carter Tea Party, Politics, Media, Race, Controversy
14. “I think that wealthy white people would like to have a country that resembles the Fifties, when all the minorities were tucked away in ghettos and paid in very low wages but on the surface it was very bright and shiny and free and the rest of the world would look on it longingly.” Alice Walker Society, Inequality, Privilege, Race, History
21. “It may, perhaps, be fairly questioned, whether any other portion of the population of the earth could have endured the privations, sufferings and horrors of slavery, without having become more degraded in the scale of humanity than the slaves of African descent.” Frederick Douglass Slavery, Endurance, Suffering, Humanity, Race
29. “Living in Atlanta those seven tumultuous years, I learned not to trust the Northern stereotype of white Southerners as incorrigible racists. Yankee self-righteousness ignored the depth of race hatred in places like Boston or New York.” Howard Zinn Race, Stereotypes, Self-Righteousness, Society, Prejudice
30. “Even allowing for the imperfection of myths, it is enough to make us question, for that time and ours, the excuse of progress in the annihilation of races, and the telling of history from the standpoint of the conquerors and leaders of Western civilization.” Howard Zinn History, Myths, Progress, Colonization, Race
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Explore the best timeless quotes on Race, including thoughts on Race. Discover the best Race quotes by renowned authors.
2. “Considering the popularity of soaps with the African-American audience, it's grotesque that the entertainment industry, for all its vaunted liberalism, is lagging so far behind social changes in the United States. And why has there never been an all-black daytime network soap? It would probably blow the white soaps off the map.”
Camille Paglia Entertainment, Race, Media, African-American, Society
6. “I don't think the Tea Party people are racist, except maybe a tiny portion of them. But there has been a deliberate effort - again, referring to Fox Broadcasting - to inject the race issue into it. They have actually called Obama a racist on television.”
Jimmy Carter Tea Party, Politics, Media, Race, Controversy
14. “I think that wealthy white people would like to have a country that resembles the Fifties, when all the minorities were tucked away in ghettos and paid in very low wages but on the surface it was very bright and shiny and free and the rest of the world would look on it longingly.”
Alice Walker Society, Inequality, Privilege, Race, History
21. “It may, perhaps, be fairly questioned, whether any other portion of the population of the earth could have endured the privations, sufferings and horrors of slavery, without having become more degraded in the scale of humanity than the slaves of African descent.”
Frederick Douglass Slavery, Endurance, Suffering, Humanity, Race
29. “Living in Atlanta those seven tumultuous years, I learned not to trust the Northern stereotype of white Southerners as incorrigible racists. Yankee self-righteousness ignored the depth of race hatred in places like Boston or New York.”
Howard Zinn Race, Stereotypes, Self-Righteousness, Society, Prejudice
30. “Even allowing for the imperfection of myths, it is enough to make us question, for that time and ours, the excuse of progress in the annihilation of races, and the telling of history from the standpoint of the conquerors and leaders of Western civilization.”
Howard Zinn History, Myths, Progress, Colonization, Race
