“The risk of racial prejudice infecting a capital sentencing proceeding is especially serious in light of the complete finality of the death sentence.”
Byron R. White
“Since September 11, our nation has engaged in a policy of institutionalized racial and ethnic profiling. If Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. were alive today ... he would tell us we must not allow the horrific acts of terror our nation has endured to slowly and subversively destroy the foundation of our democracy.”
John Conyers
“It's a legacy of segregation. Racial covenants are just a sentence in a long list of documents. It's kind of a standard language.”
Jim Draeger
“We observed quite striking differences. This suggests there are racial and ethnic differences in the smoking-related risk of lung cancer.”
Christopher Haiman
“Every institutional sector you can point to, I'll show you a racial disparity. When you have a racially structured system, there are more black people at the bottom because there's a dual system that sorts them at the bottom.”
Thaddeus Mathis
“I always felt like the rug could be pulled out from under me at anytime. And coming from a racially mixed background, I always felt like I didn't really fit in anywhere.”
Mariah Carey
“We are all descendants of Adam, and we are all products of racial miscegenation”
Lester B. Pearson
