See also Affirmative Action and Welfare & Poverty.

"Look at the white institutions outside the south that keep ethnic and racial minorities locked away in ghettos. American children of color are presented with an onslaught of lessons and images telling them they're not worthy."
--Dan Rather in an essay in the April 11, 1994 edition of the Nation.

"Don't try to tell me or any other New Southerner that civil rights was and is a 'Southern problem.' The Old South shared the worst of its legacy with all Americans."
--Dan Rather in The Nation, April 11, 1994.

"A century after genocidal wars ended on the Western plains, Native Americans are still subjected to conditions of hopelessness, poverty, and disease that make a dent in white consciousness only when some germ crops up on the reservation and threatens to spread."
--Dan Rather in The Nation, April 11, 1994.

Minority enrollment at elite schools in the University of California System had declined:
"Earlier tonight, we reported the President's apology for medical experiments that allowed black Americans to die of syphilis. The President noted how badly this hurt public trust in government, especially among minorities. The same criticism is being made today on another score. As CBS News correspondent John Blackstone reports, it's the fallout from California's voter-approved ban on state affirmative action programs."
--Dan Rather on the CBS Evening News, May 16, 1997.

"You said this morning that the party's message will focus on the needs and cares of the people. Now, how do you reconcile that with a President who has just signed a quote 'welfare reform bill' which by general agreement is going to put a lot of poor children on the street?"
--Dan Rather to Democratic Chris Dodd on the CBS Evening News, August, 1996.
Note: "General agreement" cannot possibly mean "the American people," because polls at the time supported this initiative.

"The list goes on and on: Vietnamese-Americans, Arab-Americans, Mexican-Americans, Americans from every corner of the globe are daily subjected to abuses of civil rights, to violence, hatred, and inhumanity."
--Dan Rather in The Nation, April 11, 1994.

"There are plenty of people around who say if you take the Congressman's ideas for reducing the federal budget, you're going to inevitably increase racial tensions in this country because many of the people who are going to suffer first will be minorities."
--Dan Rather interviewing newly-elected House Majority Leader Dick Armey on the CBS Evening News, December 1, 1994.
Note: Whenever Rather says, "there are plenty of people around who say...," or, "many people say...," he usually means, "Democrats say..."

"Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton fired back today some shots from Vice President Quayle and Clinton stuck by his criticism of a rap music singer who allegedly made racist remarks, including allegedly talking about the desirability of killing white people. As Bill Plante reports, this is part of a tougher-talking Clinton."
--Dan Rather on the CBS Evening News, June 15, 1992.
Note: CBS correspondent Bill Plante later played some of the song and quoted from her lyrics. Her "allegedly racist remarks" were: "If black people kill black people every day, why not have a week and kill white people?"

The Supreme Court declared racially-gerrymandered congressional districts unconstitutional:
"One of the biggest, a ruling that will make it harder for African-Americans, Hispanics, and other minorities to win elective office and a share of political power."
--Dan Rather on the CBS Evening News, June 29, 1995.