Interracial Marriage Quotes:

I'm in an interracial marriage.

- Harold Ford, Jr.

source: "Former congressman Harold Ford, Jr". "The Tavis Smiley show" with Tavis Smiley, www.pbs.org. September 27, 2010.

topic: Interracial Marriage

Considering how pervasive interracial marriage is, certainly in American society, it is rare we get to see it depicted on film.

- David Oyelowo

source: Source: chicago.gopride.com

topic: Film, Considering, Interracial Marriage

I think it's something that needs to be said - that there are interracial marriages out there, and the couples live happy lives, and there's nothing wrong with it.

- Tia Mowry

topic: Couple, Happy Life, Thinking, Interracial Marriage, Live Happy

The difficulties and hazards of marriage are greatly increased where backgrounds are different

- Spencer W. Kimball

source: Spencer W. Kimball (1982). “The Teachings of Spencer W. Kimball, Twelfth President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints”

topic: Marriage, Different, Hazards, Interracial Marriage

I believe a marriage is between a man and a woman.

- George W. Bush

source: "Fox News Sunday" with Brit Hume, www.foxnews.com. August 3, 2003.

topic: Crazy, Believe, Men, Beauty Queen, Christian Marriage

You know, I believe that marriage is between a man and a woman.

- Carly Fiorina

topic: Believe, Men, I Believe, Beauty Queen, Christian Marriage

The Bible does not oppose or forbid interracial marriages but sees them as a positive good for the glory of Christ.

- John Piper

topic: Doe, Christ, Glory, Interracial Marriage

Thirty years ago, interracial marriage was considered to be wrong by the laws of God. Now your society finds it common. The spiritual objections around it were either dropped or "rewritten" by those divinely inspired and authorized to do so. Therefore, your actual interpretations of the instructions from God changed with your society's tolerance level - an interesting thing, indeed, how the interpretations of God seem to change regularly to match a changing culture!

- Lee Carroll

source: Source: www.edgemagazine.net

topic: Spiritual, Years, Law, Interracial Marriage

Gay marriage won't be more of an issue 25 years from now than interracial marriage is today.

- Jared Polis

source: "What I've Learned: Representative Jared Polis (D, Colo.)" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. October 29, 2010.

topic: Gay, Years, Issues, Interracial Marriage

When I was born here in Gulfport in 1966, my parents' interracial marriage was still illegal. And it was very hard to drive around town with my parents, to be out in public with my parents.

- Natasha Trethewey

topic: Parent, Towns, Born, Interracial Marriage

Now, I'm for interracial marriage. I'm for same-sex marriage. I'm the one that introduced the bill to have same-sex marriage. I don't care who marry who. If a man meet a little mule and he wanna get married to the little mule, as long as he and the little mule get along all right, that's fine with me. It doesn't bother me any kind of way.

- Alvin Holmes

source: "Alabama Dem Shocks Radio Audience With His Support for a Man Marrying a ‘Little Mule’" by Mike Opelka, www.theblaze.com. April 11, 2014.

topic: Sex, Men, Long, Interracial Marriage

When observers look back 50 years from now, the arguments supporting Florida's ban on same-sex marriage, though just as sincerely held [as views of those who were opposed to interracial marriage], will again seem an obvious pretext for discrimination.

- Robert Lewis Hinkle

source: "Federal judge strikes down Florida's ban on same-sex marriage". www.foxnews.com. August 21, 2014.

topic: Sex, Gay, Florida, Interracial Marriage