You’ve got to be taught to hate and fear
You’ve got to be taught from year to year
It’s got to be drummed in your dear little ear
You’ve got to be carefully taught.

You’ve got to be taught to be afraid
Of people whose eyes are oddly made
And people whose skin is a different shad
You’ve got to be carefully taught.
~ Oscar Hammerstein, in South Pacific

The root cause of racism is the sin of ignorance, ignorance of who our God is–the triune God of grace–which leads to an ignorance of who we are–children in the kingdom of the triune God of grace.
~ R. Scott Rodin, in Stewards in the Kingdom: A Theology of Life in All Its Fullness

There is no subject more intimately interesting to modern people than man’s relationship to man; but men get impatient when they are told that the first requirement is that they should love God first and foremost…In every crisis in our lives, is God first in our love? In every perplexity of conflicting duties, is He first in our leading?
~ Oswald Chambers

There is a natural disgust in the minds of nearly all white people, to the idea of an indiscriminate amalgamation of the white and black races.
~ Abraham Lincoln

I would not be a slave—therefore I would not be a master.
~ Abraham Lincoln

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