Racism cannot be cured solely by attacking some of the results it produces, like discrimination in housing or in education.

But equal treatment in an unequal society could still foster inequality. Because black men were disproportionately incarcerated and black women disproportionately evicted, uniformly denying housing to applicants with recent criminal or eviction records still had an incommensurate impact on African Americans.

As far as I was concerned, the Depression was an ill wind that blew some good. If it hadn't occurred, my parents would have given me my college education. As it was, I had to scrabble for it.

The roots of racism lie deep in man's nature, wounded and bruised by original sin.

If education does not create a need for the best in life, then we are stuck in an undemocratic, rigid caste society.

The one thing that the racist can never manage is anything like discrimination: he is indiscriminate by definition.