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There may be some difficulties, some interruptions, but as a nation and as a people, we are going to build a truly multiracial, democratic society that maybe can emerge as a model for the rest of the world.

I feel like decades ago it was either you're black, white, Asian or Hispanic, or whatever, but today we see more of an acceptance for people with multi-nationalities.

When we see that our problem is so complicated and so all-encompassing in its intent and content, then we realize that it is no longer a Negro problem, confined only to the American Negro; that it is no longer an American problem, confined only to America, but it is a problem for humanity.

Though this nation has proudly thought of itself as an ethnic melting pot, in things racial we have always been and continue to be, in too many ways, essentially a nation of cowards.

The United States is historically a nation of immigrants.

America rests on shared values rather than shared ethnicity.

To believe that the United States is post-racial requires an almost incomprehensible inability or unwillingness to stare truth in the face.

My answer to the racial problem in America is to not deal with it at all. The founding fathers dealt with it when they made the Constitution.

This nation is being divided into black and white, and the present system encourages this.