“Those who benefit from unearned privilege are too often quick to discount those who don't.” — DaShanne Stokes Copy Share Image
“Discrimination is discrimination, even when people claim it's 'tradition.” — DaShanne Stokes Copy Share Image
“Pride is the problem. Everyone wants to be right so badly they overlook the "rights" of others.” — Carlos Wallace Copy Share Image
“Privilege is presuming to speak for others you know nothing about.” — DaShanne Stokes Copy Share Image
“An institution rooted in slavery cannot be the voice of our people.” — DaShanne Stokes Copy Share Image
“It speaks volumes when people who are discriminated against go on to discriminate against others.” — DaShanne Stokes Copy Share Image
“...I fell asleep and had a dream that a king was liquidated by a group of kind faces…” — Maquita Donyel Irvin Copy Share Image
Telling me that I’m obsessed with talking about racism in America is like telling me I’m obsessed with swimming when I’m drowning. — Hari Kondabolu Copy Share Image
For many years, I believed racism in America was dead and that opportunity existed for all. My beliefs were shaken when the… — John Hope Bryant Copy Share Image
“There are turning points in everyone's life when we have to fight, even if we have to do it by ourselves and… — Junius Williams Copy Share Image
“Fantasy like thought that no man could rain Just let her reign Run wild with her unafraid Of any rain storms They… — Maquita Donyel Irvin Copy Share Image
“Bigotry hurts the economy, so the next time you want to blame minorities for your problems, first take a look in the… — DaShanne Stokes Copy Share Image
“There are very few hardships out there that hit only people of color and not white people, but there are a lot… — Ijeoma Oluo Copy Share Image
Racism in America absolutely exists - it is an issue. We need to fix it. We're a great country - probably the… — Spike Lee Copy Share Image
“The media constantly reinforces the message that what is demanded of us is unwavering strength, poise and diplomacy even in the face… — The Washington Post Shanon Lee Copy Share Image
“It’s infuriating that yesterday, my father had to pull all my younger cousins into a room and tell them to be more… — Janelle Gray Copy Share Image
“In those days I imagined racism as a tumor that could be isolated and removed from the body of America, not as… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
“It has taken me many years of intensive study and practice to be able to recognize and articulate how I am shaped… — Robin DiAngelo Copy Share Image
“It was a grand opportunity for the low whites, who had no negroes of their own to scourge. They exulted in such… — Harriet Ann Jacobs Copy Share Image
The words 'bad timing' came to be ghosts haunting our every move in Birmingham. Yet people who used this argument were ignorant… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
“This is just a nigger talkin', an' a busted-back nigger. So it don't mean nothing, see? You couldn't remember it anyways. I… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“The enemy was not the Klan but the inside-outside lock that racism and classism had on the minds of the people: It… — Junius Williams Copy Share Image
“Many fundamentalist Christian Evangelicals are racist because religion and racism are two sides of the same coin. Both are nothing more than… — Oliver Markus Malloy Copy Share Image
Part of our identity is the idea that racism is still there and that we are vulnerable to it. So, the question… — Shelby Steele Copy Share Image
“NO DIVINE BOVINE ! The clumsy creature currently inhabiting the White House is a distinctly dangerous animal. Part boneheaded raging bully, part… — Alex Morritt Copy Share Image
“Okay, first of all, they don't "consider" Jefferson Davis racist, he was President of the Confederacy, his racism is not up for… — T.J. Kirk Copy Share Image
“If, as a white person, I conceptualize racism as a binary and I see myself on the "not racist" side, what further… — Robin DiAngelo Copy Share Image
“Several years after, he passed through our town and preached to his former congregation. In his afternoon sermon he addressed the colored… — Harriet Ann Jacobs Copy Share Image
“Racism is both overt and covert. It takes two, closely related forms: individual whites acting against individual blacks, and acts by the… — Stokely Carmichael Copy Share Image
“Whitepeople believed that whatever the manners, under every dark skin was a jungle. Swift unnavigable waters, swinging screaming baboons, sleeping snakes, red… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
“It's not the fact that some people disagree with the protests. That is as much a right as the protests themselves. It… — Carlos Wallace Copy Share Image
“Standing against discrimination for some while supporting discrimination against others hurts us all.” — DaShanne Stokes Copy Share Image
“Saying something is 'politically correct' is often a way of dismissing the voices of the oppressed.” — DaShanne Stokes Copy Share Image
“Bigotry and sexism destroy the unity needed for a nation to live.” — DaShanne Stokes Copy Share Image
“Pull down your pants! I've heard about nigger-cocks my whole life but never seen one!” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I have nothing to do with racism in America; it was here when I got here. — Paul Mooney Copy Share Image
“It's not 'over-sensitivity' to ask to be treated with the same dignity and respect shown to others.” — DaShanne Stokes Copy Share Image
