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Race Relations Quotes

It's a weird scene. You win a few baseball games and all of a sudden you're surrounded by reporters and TV men with cameras asking you about Vietnam and race relations.
- Vida Blue

The country has come a long way in race relations, but the pendulum swings so far back. Everyone wants to be so sensitive.
- Clint Eastwood

Hip-hop has done so much for racial relations, and I don't think it's given the proper credit. It has changed America immensely. I'm going to make a very bold statement: Hip-hop has done more than any leader, politician, or anyone to improve race relations.
- Jayz

When the Negro cries with pain from his deep hurt and lays his petition for elemental justice before the nation, he is calling upon the American people to kindle about that crucible of race relationships the fires of American faith.
- Mordecai Wyatt Johnson

When Thurgood Marshall became a lawyer, race relations in the United States were particularly bad.
- Constance Baker Motley

In high school, I discovered myself. I was interested in race relations and the legal profession. I read about Lincoln and that he believed the law to be the most difficult of professions.
- Constance Baker Motley

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