Multiracial Quotes:

A fully functional multiracial society cannot be achieved without a sense of history and open, honest dialogue.

- Cornel West

source: Twitter post from Aug 05, 2009

topic: Honest, Dialogue, Multiracial

In a multi-racial society, trust, understanding and tolerance are the cornerstones of peace and order.

- Kamisese Mara

source: Kamisese Mara (1977). “Selected speeches”

topic: Order, Understanding, Tolerance, Cornerstones, Multiracial

History has blessed us with all the freedom and advantages of multiculturalism. But it has also blessed us, because of the accident of our origins, with the linguistic unity that brings a critically needed cohesion to a nation as diverse, multiracial and multiethnic as America. Why gratuitously throw away that priceless asset? How mindless to call the desire to retain it 'racist.

- Charles Krauthammer

topic: Blessed, America, Unity, Multiracial, Multiculturalism

The crisis of black politics can only be resolved through the development of multiclass, multiracial, progressive political structures.

- Manning Marable

source: Manning Marable, Russell Rickford (2015). “Beyond Boundaries: The Manning Marable Reader”, p.76, Routledge

topic: Political, Black, Development, Multiracial

There are roles I am never considered for. Meryl Streep roles, let's say. Why not? I really wanted to do 'Ironweed,' for example, because the depression era in this country was one of the best for multiracial people, because everybody was poor. Everybody lived in the tents, and under buildings, and under gratings, together.

- Whoopi Goldberg

topic: Country, People, Together, Multiracial

All talk on Islamic States is just an empty dream. No man in his right sense would accept a nation which bases its political administration on religion, and in a country like Malaysia with its multiracial and multireligious people, there is no room for an Islamic State.

- Tunku Abdul Rahman

topic: Dream, Country, Islamic, Islamic State, Multiracial

There's just no - nothing like this country, which is the only, really, multiracial country that's tried to share in a common culture in the history of civilization that's pulled it off. A lot of the times, we want perfection. If we're not perfect, we're not good.

- Victor Davis Hanson

source: Source: www.npr.org

topic: Country, Civilization, Perfect, Multiracial, Common Culture

I do believe that the analogy for bisexuality is a multicultural, multi-ethnic, multiracial world view. Bisexuality follows from such a perspective and leads to it, as well.

- June Jordan

topic: Believe, Views, Perspective, Bisexuality, Multiracial

Today's multiracial Americans are at greater liberty to choose how they'd like to be seen, and under less pressure to pass for white.

- Eric Liu

topic: White, Liberty, Today, Multiracial

What is accurately portrayed is the rich humanity not just of Martin Luther King but of the movement, which was a multiracial movement. You had blacks and whites coming together and sacrificing, organizing and mobilizing the world. That's the first time we've had collective action put at the center of any kind of portrayal of Martin King on the screen.

- Cornel West

source: Source: www.chicagotribune.com

topic: Kings, Sacrifice, Humanity, Multiracial, Collective Action

I think with President Obama there's going to be a discussion, because he himself is multiracial, because we have for the first time a non-white president. There's going to be talk about what does this mean? What is it? Are we in a new era?

- Michael Emerson

source: Source: www.pbs.org

topic: Mean, Thinking, White, Multiracial

The old boy network is still too strong in Canadian business. A visit to the Toronto clubs at lunch stands in about as great a contrast to the multicultural, multiracial subway underneath as can be humanly imagined. This is not healthy.

- Bob Rae

topic: Strong, Boys, Lunch, Multiracial

Colonization was the idea that once slavery ended African-Americans should be encouraged - or required, in some people's view - required to leave the country. It's part of an attitude toward the abolition of slavery which says America should not be a slave society, but it can never be a multiracial society. You can never have free black and white people living together.

- Eric Foner

source: "Eric Foner on the Perennial Relevance of Abraham Lincoln". Interview with Aaron Leonard, historynewsnetwork.org. October 4, 2010.

topic: Country, Attitude, Black And White, Colonization, Multiracial

So these are the kind of things that now when people are trying to move towards multiracial congregations that they're stressing. They're talking about these scriptures that say we ought to come together, and that at Pentecost, when that the Holy Spirit is said to have come upon the first Christians, they were given the ability to speak in different languages, and so that no matter who the people were, they could all worship together.

- Michael Emerson

source: Source: www.pbs.org

topic: Christian, Stress, Moving, Pentecost, Multiracial

There's one denomination in particular, though, that has pushed very hard to be multiracial in its denomination - not only its denomination but, I mean, in its congregations, and it's called the Evangelical Covenant Church, http://www.covchurch.org/ which is headquartered in Chicago. Their whole goal is that's the kind of churches they start, multiracial, and I think they say now 20 percent of their churches are that.

- Michael Emerson

source: Source: www.pbs.org

topic: Mean, Thinking, Goal, Multiracial, Congregation

Downsides, yeah, and when there are more downsides when churches first start - they go through stages of transforming to becoming multiracial. So in the beginning stages there's often a lot of pain, a lot of confusion, a lot of people leave.

- Michael Emerson

source: Source: www.pbs.org

topic: Pain, Confusion, People, Multiracial

What's happening is that Asian and Latino and other groups without that history are more likely to end up in either black churches or white churches and then make them multiracial churches. I talk about that in the US we have two cultures.

- Michael Emerson

source: Source: www.pbs.org

topic: Two, White, Black, Multiracial, Black Church

Barack H. Obama is a landmark presidential figure as the first black, multiracial, multicultural president from Hawaii and the Pacific.

- Dinesh Sharma

source: Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

topic: Presidential, Black, Hawaii, Multiracial

There is no doubt that the issue of race is always present in American politics and in the politics of any multiracial society. There is also no doubt that for some people it is an element in the manifested hostility to Obama. But I don't think it is the major theme at all. Obama is right when he reminds people: By the way, I was black before the election.

- Al Gore

source: "'I Am Optimistic'". Interview with Philip Bethge, Gregor Peter Schmitz and Gabor Steingart, www.spiegel.de. November 02, 2009.

topic: Thinking, Issues, Race, Multiracial

We live in the most multicultural, multiracial, multiethnic America ever, and I get the sense that because of that reality so many of us are turning nativist.

- Max Lucado

topic: Reality, America, Multicultural, Multiracial

To be clear, the gap between the have gots and the have nots is widening. In this most multicultural, multiracial, multiethnic America ever, that concerns me.

- Tavis Smiley

topic: America, Gaps, Multicultural, Multiracial

I've driven all through America and I know there are a lot of clever people between the coasts. But they have a slightly old-fashioned view of the world. Whereas New York is one of the most multicultural, multiracial, tolerant places on Earth.

- Robbie Coltraine

topic: New York, Clever, Views, Multiracial