Miscegenation Quotes:

We are all descendants of Adam, and we are all products of racial miscegenation.

- Lester B. Pearson

source: Lester B. Pearson (1968). “Peace in the family of man”

topic: Adam, Miscegenation, Descendants

America has never had a very wide vocabulary for miscegenation. We say we like diversity, but we don't like the idea that our Hispanic neighbor is going to marry our daughter. America has nothing like the Spanish vocabulary for miscegenation. Mulatto, mestizo, Creole - these Spanish and French terms suggest, by their use, that miscegenation is a fact of life. America has only black and white. In eighteenth-century America, if you had any drop of African blood in you, you were black.

- Richard Rodriguez

source: Source: www.teachingbooks.net

topic: Daughter, Black And White, Blood, Miscegenation, Mulattoes

The miscegenation laws of the South only operate against the legitimate union of the races; they leave the white man free to seduce all the colored girls he can, but it is death to the colored man who yields to the force and advances of a similar attraction in white women. White men lynch the offending Afro-American, not because he is a despoiler of virtue, but because he succumbs to the smiles of white women.

- Ida B. Wells

topic: Girl, Men, Offending, Miscegenation, Colored Girls

...despite all this, it is still hard to admit that there is no one more English than the Indian, no one more Indian than the English. There are still young white men who are angry about that; who will roll out at closing time into the poorly lit streets with a kitchen knife wrapped in a tight fist. But it makes an immigrant laugh to hear the fears of the nationalist, scared of infection, penetration, miscegenation, when this is small fry, peanuts, compared to what the immigrant fears - dissolution, disappearance.

- Zadie Smith

source: Zadie Smith (2003). “White Teeth”, p.272, Vintage

topic: Men, White Man, Knives, Kitchen Knives, Miscegenation

The wisdom of the masses is not always wise. You could put a lot of things to a vote-you could have put anti-miscegenation laws to a vote, and that would have passed pretty handily. Either all people are created equal-or they're not. You're either buying into the original premise of America-or you're not.

- Jon Stewart

topic: Wise, Law, America, Miscegenation

But it makes an immigrant laugh to hear the fears of the nationalist, scared of infection, penetration, miscegenation, when this is small fry, peanuts, compared to what the immigrant fears - dissolution, disappearance.

- Zadie Smith

source: Zadie Smith (2003). “White Teeth”, p.272, Vintage

topic: Laughing, Scared, Peanuts, Miscegenation, Dissolution