“they refused to define their own assimilationist ideas of Black behavioral inferiority as racist. These assimilationists defined only segregationist ideas of Black… — Ibram X. Kendi Copy Share Image
The principal challenge of the next phase of the Negro revolution is to make certain that equality of results will now follow.… — Daniel Patrick Moynihan Copy Share Image
“If Southern white men are not careful, they will overreach themselves and public sentiment will have a reaction; a conclusion will then… — Ida B. Wells-Barnett Copy Share Image
In America, the traditional routes to black identity have hardly been normal. Suicide (disappearance by imitation, or willed extinction), violence (hysterical religiosity,… — June Jordan Copy Share Image
“As fantastical as America’s space ambitions might have seemed, sending a man into space was starting to feel like a straightforward task… — Margot Lee Shetterly Copy Share Image
It was the biggest suppression of voting rights in our country's history since Jim Crow. And the thread of race runs from… — Sidney Blumenthal Copy Share Image
My background is: I'm a Black man in America, victim of police brutality, victim of institutional racism, working-class from working-class roots. — Jamaal Bowman Copy Share Image
Just by saying it is wrong to be racist and saying we are going to arrest people and kick them out of… — John Barnes Copy Share Image
“It's a success story," said Chanu, exercising his shoulders. "But behind every story of immigration success there lies a deeper tragedy." Kindly… — Monica Ali Copy Share Image
“The utility of "structural" racism for demagogues like Jackson is that even while acknowledging that the vast majority of whites are no… — David Horowitz Copy Share Image
Most people will agree that they would like if they were treated by other people based on what they have concretely done… — Tao Lin Copy Share Image
Many white people experience themselves as powerless, even in the face of privilege. But the fact is that we all have a… — Beverly Daniel Tatum Copy Share Image
Until the philosophy which hold one race superior and another inferior is finally and permanently discredited and abandoned... Everything is war. Me… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It's bizarre: I've tried to understand why people are into Trump. I really don't think I can. I don't think it's as… — Mary Gaitskill Copy Share Image
“More than 2 million people found themselves behind bars at the turn of the twenty-first century, and millions more were relegated to… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
“Equality of condition, though it is certainly a basic requirement for justice, is nevertheless among the greatest and most uncertain ventures of… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
Our differences - in race, sexual preference, economic - have always been used as distractions to keep us divided. We get so… — Malcolm-Jamal Warner Copy Share Image
I am not prejudiced against the Negro. When I was governor, I did more to help the Negroes in our State than… — Strom Thurmond Copy Share Image
I'm the least racist person. Friends of mine that happen to be African-American said: "You're the least racist person we've ever met".… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
It's easy. [Black man] is - he's separate already. The fact that you have Harlem, the fact that you have the Negro… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
The way I see it hatred, racism and bigotry are like embers that, over time - with honest debate, leadership, and a… — Phil Scott Copy Share Image
The ills of discrimination are still with us. We have to continue the tenacity and vigilance of the 1960s. Racial understanding is… — Thomas Cole Copy Share Image
Yet another reason to be angry at President Trump: He is forcing me - and every other American who is not a… — Max Boot Copy Share Image
My mother is an African-American from the South Side of Chicago who married a white guy in 1978. She was hyperaware of… — Hannah Bronfman Copy Share Image
Who judges a skin color? that sounds so retarded to me,its like hating a cat because it has fur or hating a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I was part of that strange race of people aptly described as spending their lives doing things they detest, to make money… — Emile Gauvreau Copy Share Image
The Almighty has fixed the distinction of the races; the Almighty has made the black man inferior, and sir, by no legislation,… — Fernando Wood Copy Share Image
The most likely victim of actual religious discrimination in British society is a Muslim, but the person who is most likely to… — Trevor Phillips Copy Share Image
I think we ought to strip our laws and regulations of everything that rewards or recommends or requires preferential treatment by race.… — Charles Murray Copy Share Image
My generation of Americans was the first to really care about racism and sexism, not to mention the I Ching, plus, of… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
That's absolutely how I am. Like race, black or white - I see absolutely no difference. Because for me it's just such… — Neve Campbell Copy Share Image
I think that there are some people on the so-called Left who might say we have to circle our wagons around the… — Cindy Sheehan Copy Share Image
Sex and race, because they are easy and visible differences, have been the primary ways of organizing human beings into superior and… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
The American Catholic Church made statements on racism as far back as the 1940s and '50s. 'Colored' Catholic girls could not live… — Anthea Butler Copy Share Image
Above all, I enjoin the government and the people to uphold the race laws to the limit and to resist mercilessly the… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
We continue to confront racism from our past and our present, which is why we must hold everyone, from the highest offices… — Stacey Abrams Copy Share Image
Systemically, there hasn't been an oppression more overt and long-lasting than economic oppression against black people and minorities in this country. — Kerby Jean-Raymond Copy Share Image
What is crucial to your survival as a race is not the redistribution of power and wealth within the prison but rather… — Daniel Quinn Copy Share Image
“We cannot afford to lose the Negro. We have urgent need of all and more. Let us therefore turn our efforts to… — Andrew Carnegie Copy Share Image
You have to be resilient to be a black person in America. The thing about being resilient is being able to fall… — Teyonah Parris Copy Share Image