“I can't help but feel that whites always gotta know the answer to everything. It's like they're uncomfortable not being able to… — Michele Serros Copy Share Image
“Americans reading early colonial newspapers learned two recurring lessons about Black people: they could be bought like cattle, and they were dangerous… — Ibram X. Kendi Copy Share Image
“The past is of value only as it aids in understanding the present; and an understanding of the facts of the problem… — Chicago Commission on Race Relations Copy Share Image
I was just thinking about how my grandparents, who raised me, would be considered "white trash," whatever that means - mostly for… — Shane McCrae Copy Share Image
I think really the whole problem with racism and its continuing legacy in this country is that we simply love it. Who… — Kara Walker Copy Share Image
In a time where there are divides between cultures and races, I would love to use my position to show that we… — Nargis Fakhri Copy Share Image
Given the historical power differential between blacks and whites, blacks are required to be attentive to the way their white counterparts see… — James A. Forbes Copy Share Image
The movement for black lives isn't just about black people. Black liberation has never just been about black people. It's been about… — Patrisse Cullors Copy Share Image
“Some lurid things have been said about me—that I am a racist, a hopeless alcoholic, a closet homosexual and so forth—that I… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
The fact is, is that Donald Trump knows that as he rifles money from the working and middle classes up to the… — Keith Ellison Copy Share Image
Those who aren't caught up into this bigotry, this hatred, those who respect us when they see us. Then you have an… — Kweisi Mfume Copy Share Image
“the immigrants who secure rights thanks to the anti-racist anti-colonial struggle might be securing the right to free capitalist enterprise, refusing to… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
Life is simple and we make it complicated, Love the ones you forgot long before and Forgot the ones you hate long… — Nishan Panwar Copy Share Image
“I have been made to feel sad for such persons because I am conscious of the fact that mere connection with what… — Booker T. Washington Copy Share Image
I had to deal with it so often, I found ways of making a point against racism. When I played against Real… — Samuel Eto'o Copy Share Image
“Unless institutional power reinforces the hurt and prejudice suffered by a group, it is not oppression. By definition, a person of color… — Linda Stout Copy Share Image
We understand 'Roots,' and that experience was mind-boggling, and it changed the way society viewed race relations. It was incredibly important. With… — Esai Morales Copy Share Image
And while the law of competition may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it ensures… — Andrew Carnegie Copy Share Image
“In a world divided by differences of nationality, race, colour, religion and wealth [the rule of law] is one of the greatest… — Tom Bingham Copy Share Image
From these prejudices there arises conflict, transient joys and suffering. But we are unconscious of this, unconscious that we are slaves to… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
“Fiction has been maligned for centuries as being "false," "untrue," yet good fiction provides more truth about the world, about life, and… — Clark Zlotchew Copy Share Image
You know, my goal is not to convince you that I'm right or that you're wrong. About homophobia. Gun violence. Racism. Whatever… — Steven Petrow Copy Share Image
Sadly, I've learnt that prejudice still exists in parts of the entertainment industry - I did an interview with a magazine once,… — Alesha Dixon Copy Share Image
It's so important to have representation for all races on TV. All people, from all walks of life. So when other people… — Kofi Kingston Copy Share Image
If you want to have strong borders, so that people come into our country, but they come in legally through a legal… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
“It has come as a great revelation to me,” I wrote her, “that abolition is different from the desire for racial equality.… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
I cannot help wondering sometimes what I might have become and might have done if I had lived in a country which… — Mary Church Terrell Copy Share Image
People say all lives matter. And that's true, but it's just black people that are getting shot in the back running or… — Ras Baraka Copy Share Image
“Race is neither an essence nor an illusion, but rather an ongoing, contradictory, self-reinforcing process subject to the macro forces of social… — Ian F. Haney López Copy Share Image
Racism, specifically, is the state-sanctioned or extralegal production and exploitation of group-differentiated vulnerability to premature death. — Ruth Wilson Gilmore Copy Share Image
“Though Dutch, I was considered of Aryan race and my child -- otherwise shamed as uneheliches Kind, conceived out of wedlock --… — Pam Jenoff Copy Share Image
“The question is really a kind of apathy and ignorance, which is the price we pay for segregation. That’s what segregation means.… — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
'The Birth of a Nation' occupies a view of the South not far from Scarlett O'Hara's in 'Gone With the Wind,' and… — Richard Corliss Copy Share Image
Racism is an ism to which everyone in the world today is exposed; for or against, we must take sides. And the… — Ruth Benedict Copy Share Image
Precisely because white denial has long trumped claims of racism, people of color tend to underreport their experiences with racial bias rather… — Tim Wise Copy Share Image
The police are controlled by the whites, the media are controlled by the whites, the army's controlled by the whites, what hope… — Tony Benn Copy Share Image
I believe in my race, colour. I never felt inferior to anyone. Maybe that's why the folks who made me feel that… — Viv Richards Copy Share Image
“Clear your mind of prejudices and assumptions, and look to define the problem as something you can objectively measure to determine whether… — Nat Greene Copy Share Image
I know some people would be like, 'Why are you responding to these racists on Twitter?' Sometimes it's for the purpose of… — Amanda Seales Copy Share Image
By the time I was at college, I became very alert to the question of racial discrimination, and I remember one of… — Albert Maltz Copy Share Image