In sociology, they call it 'code switching.' I can feel just as comfortable in a room full of people who don't look… — Amy Sherald Copy Share Image
“When someone calls you a 'nigger', then you feel sorry for him... You have to pity him because his mind has such… — Adam Makos Copy Share Image
People were nicer to me when I was in the arts. I experienced extreme racism in small-town New Zealand. Racism which really… — Cliff Curtis Copy Share Image
There's less than one percent of the population of Iowa that is African American. There is probably less than four of five… — Joe Biden Copy Share Image
The worst thing about affirmative action is that it encourages reverse discrimination, so-called because it goes in the opposite way of how… — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
When I was a kid, my dad used to take me out to the race track, and so many formative experiences have… — David Milch Copy Share Image
There are plenty of African-Americans in this country - and I would say this goes right up to the White House -… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
In many large urban areas, the majority of working age African American men now have criminal records and are thus subject to… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
“The worlds within and without the Veil of Color are changing, and changing rapidly, but not at the same rate, not in… — W.E.B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
“If the white majority is racist how can a government it dominates be counted on to redress racial grievances? The question is… — David Horowitz Copy Share Image
“The horror of class stratification, racism, and prejudice is that some people begin to believe that the security of their families and… — Dorothy Allison Copy Share Image
“The root of the black man's hatred is rage, and he does not so much had the white man as simply as… — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
“Nor did she believe in identity, certainly not the local nationalistic version of it. She said that man was only smart if… — Sayed Kashua Copy Share Image
Take us generally as a people, we are neither lazy nor idle; and considering how little we have to excite or stimulate… — Maria W. Stewart Copy Share Image
“There has always been racism. But it developed as a leading principle of thought and perception in the context of colonialism. That’s… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“Du Bois reminds us that, to compensate their low wages, segregation gave whites a "public and psychological wage." As whites, they were… — Derrick Bell Copy Share Image
Anything that is as old as racism is in the blood line of the nation. It's not any superficial thing-that attitude is… — Nannie Helen Burroughs Copy Share Image
My father's voice had nevertheless remained untainted, inspiring, rebuking, granting or withholding approval. 'You do not work hard enough, Barry. You must… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The criticism from the other side of [race] debate - and these are not necessarily I think defenders of [Donald] Trump, but… — Dahlia Lithwick Copy Share Image
We need to be open minded to understand that there are lots of different levels of things going on and we shouldn't… — Angelina Jolie Copy Share Image
“No segment of White Christian America has been more complicit in the nation’s fraught racial history than white evangelical Protestants.” — Robert P. Jones Copy Share Image
So many people representing different sections of our community are taken down one way or another. The system was designed to break… — Snoop Dogg Copy Share Image
My mixed-race background made me a broad person, able to relate to different cultures. But any woman of colour, even a mixed… — Alicia Keys Copy Share Image
Everyone knows I'm black. I am who I am. This is the person that Lester Sr. and June Holt raised, and I… — Lester Holt Copy Share Image
It is perfectly logical and proper to recognize differences between races and colors and creeds - as long as we don't classify… — Arlene Francis Copy Share Image
Problem with segregation isn't that people can't live in peaceful harmony singing "Kumbaya" - although that wouldn't be bad. The problem is… — Richard Benjamin Copy Share Image
I want to make a summing up, brief and to the point, but thorough. I have never suppressed a word in my… — John Henry Mackay Copy Share Image
That's what is always fascinating about racism - how it is allowed, if not encouraged, to flourish freely in public spaces, the… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
I advance it therefore as a suspicion only, that the blacks, whether originally a distinct race, or made distinct by time and… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Right discrimination is of two kinds analytical and synthetical. The first leads one from the phenomena to the Absolute Brahman, while by… — Ramakrishna Copy Share Image
There can be racism in a system even if a particular episode of injustice is not a manifestation of that racism. Every… — James Forman, Jr Copy Share Image
From racial profiling and being pulled over just for 'driving while black' to this new phenomenon of killing unarmed people out of… — Al Sharpton Copy Share Image
“I think the people from Mississippi ought to come to Chicago to learn how to hate." Martin Luther King, Jr. after the… — Rick Perlstein Copy Share Image
Race prejudice is not only a shadow over the colored it is a shadow over all of us, and the shadow is… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
Prejudice by its very nature is a faulted perception of reality. The prejudiced person will always be playing a roulette wheel with… — John Lars Zwerenz Copy Share Image
I think that the agriculture system in general is rooted in racism - consider that historically black labor on plantations was the… — Bryant Terry Copy Share Image
To fully understand the black immigrant experience in the U.S., we must understand it not in contrast to the African-American experience, but… — Opal Tometi Copy Share Image
I have no bigger goal than to eradicate racism, to grant Americans who have a different color of skin the right to… — Andrew Breitbart Copy Share Image
She belongs to a race of delightful women, who never do any harm, whom everybody calls good, and who are very severe… — Gilbert Parker Copy Share Image
Motherfuckers will read a book that’s one third Elvish, but put two sentences in Spanish and they [white people] think we’re taking… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
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