I want to be remembered as someone who tried to bring the story of our ancestors to the broadest possible audience. I… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
I draw the line in the dust and toss the gauntlet before the feet of tyranny, and I say segregation now, segregation… — George C. Wallace Copy Share Image
Many people are afraid to talk about race because it's so emotionally loaded. We don't have the vocabulary to talk about it.… — Anna Deavere Smith Copy Share Image
There are people out there who have been trying to pursue acting, but they've said stuff like, Oh, we're not looking for… — Hudson Yang Copy Share Image
If you are friends with someone, and you're like 'Hey, what ethnicity are you,' that's cool. But you wouldn't walk up to… — Arden Cho Copy Share Image
When I was a kid growing up in New York, I was pretty unaware of racism. I think when we're young -… — Dave Matthews Copy Share Image
Opponents of legal birth control, including abortion, have tried for decades to play the race card, saying that legal abortion is racist.… — Karen DeCrow Copy Share Image
Far from ending, systemic racism reinvents itself to conform to what is publically acceptable, leaving the quality of black life diminished and… — Opal Tometi Copy Share Image
The beautiful thing about having grown up in Brooklyn is, because of the rich cultural and racial diversity there, no one seemed… — Wentworth Miller Copy Share Image
All freed, fast-frozen relations, with their train of ancient and venerable prejudices and opinions, are swept away, all new-formed ones become antiquated… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
I also believe that you are what you have to defend, and if you're a black man that's always going to be… — Don Cheadle Copy Share Image
As a child and a teenager, my attitudes and actions assumed the superiority of my race in almost every way without knowing… — John Piper Copy Share Image
Multiculturalism is a campaign to lower America's moral status by defining the American experience is terms of myriad repressionsand their victims. By… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“If you’re telling a non-black person about something racist that happened to you, make sure you are not bitter. Don’t complain. Be… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
“Mrs. Clinton, speaking to a black church audience on Martin Luther King Day last year, did describe President George W. Bush as… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Discrimination is discrimination no matter who the victim is, and it is always wrong. There are no special rights in America, despite… — Julian Bond Copy Share Image
The extraordinary nature of individual black achievement in formerly white domain certainly does suggest that the old Jim Crow is dead, but… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
I can only speak for myself, but when I was growing up in Memphis - and having the Martin Luther King holiday… — Katori Hall Copy Share Image
Spatial racism, the erasure of black faces in a predominantly white city, is in full effect in both Crown Heights and Center… — Anthea Butler Copy Share Image
I've been seesawing between not doing too much racial stuff - because I'd rather be known as the funny comedian than the… — Ronny Chieng Copy Share Image
What we are working for is an educational program that has become a resource and rallying point for scores of brave southerners… — Septima Poinsette Clark Copy Share Image
Be respectful to others as you grow... If we lack respect for one group, then there is a tendency for that attitude… — Walter Annenberg Copy Share Image
Those who become incoculated with the virus of race hatred are more unfortunate than the victim of it. Race hatred is the… — Kelly Miller Copy Share Image
I do believe that part of us ending racism is us seeing each other's humanity and learning to love each other, even… — John Legend Copy Share Image
Country must confront what he called institutional racism. [We should] create a country which provides economic, social and environmental justice for all. — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
Those of us who believe in the right of any human being to belong to whatever church he sees fit, and to… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Sensitivity to the immense needs of humanity brings with it a spontaneous rejection of the arms race, which is incompatible with the… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
Here in Georgia, we continue to grapple with our own vestiges of hate. The image carved into Stone Mountain, like Confederate monuments… — Stacey Abrams Copy Share Image
It's so wonderful that women continue to break down barriers and change societal expectations, but women still suffer discrimination for their gender,… — Sasheer Zamata Copy Share Image
I was brought up in a football environment where we saw a lot of racism - whether it was abuse from other… — Chris Hughton Copy Share Image
There has been no more principled opposition to racism than Jeremy Corbyn: he was getting arrested for protesting against Apartheid when the… — Ken Loach Copy Share Image
It is a fundamental right for people to be allowed to love who they want to love and marry who they want… — Ellen DeGeneres Copy Share Image
We were not talking about the average white person: we was talking about the corporate money rich and the racist jive politicians… — Bobby Seale Copy Share Image
The civility of no race can be perfect whilst another race is degraded. It is a doctrine alike of the oldest and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“There's more to blackness than bludgeoning people with memories of past atrocities and injustices or the discussion of how difficult it is… — Touré Copy Share Image
I might add how in the world can you say, or can anyone say, that it will dignify the American Negro to… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
This is why integration will not work. It assumes that the two races, black and white, are equal and can be made… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
The more divided people of color are in a system of white supremacy/privilege, the weaker they will be, both individually and collectively. — Tim Tebow Copy Share Image
Sexism and racism are parallel problems. You can compare them in some ways, but they're not at all the same. But they're… — Frida Kahlo Copy Share Image
However, while we should certainly celebrate the demise of overt official racism, we must also critically examine where we are at this… — Ed Markey Copy Share Image