“There's something to be said for learning a race by close study of its outcasts. Who doesn't fit into a society can… — Melisa Michaels Copy Share Image
People don't talk about small-town racism in Illinois or upstate New York. They're like, 'It's the South.' And it is. It's there.… — Tig Notaro Copy Share Image
The national conversation around white entitlement, around institutionalized racism, the Black Lives Matter movement, I think, came about in large part because… — Cathy O'Neil Copy Share Image
In 2017, it's discouraging that it seems like we're going backward. And that's not just because of Trump; that's because we, as… — J Balvin Copy Share Image
“I have been cheated out of being treated like a human being. In my reflection I saw an empty vessel. They had… — M.B. Wilmot Copy Share Image
There are two reasons to pursue diversity and inclusion. One, because you believe one group has benefitted from hundreds of years of… — Chris Sacca Copy Share Image
“intersectionality”—prejudice stemming from the intersections of racist ideas and other forms of bigotry, such as sexism, classism, ethnocentrism, and homophobia.” — Ibram X. Kendi Copy Share Image
The different ness of races, moreover, is no evidence of superiority or of inferiority. This merely indicates that each race has certain… — Carter G. Woodson Copy Share Image
Trump gives progressives a way to channel whatever guilt they might have - whether from preventing homebuilding, benefitting from unfair taxes and… — Michael Shellenberger Copy Share Image
Bad schools, crime, drugs, high taxes, the social security mess, racism, the health care ? crisis? unemployment, welfare state dependency, illegitimacy, the… — Larry Elder Copy Share Image
They said that the Negro had no initiative; that he was not a business man, but a laborer; that he had not… — Marcus Garvey Copy Share Image
I hope [white brothers and sisters] read this book [Tears we cannot stop] and engage with it, but other white people have… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
“Trying to be white? What the hell does that mean? I've never understood that. How could anyone be white when they aren't… — Ahmir Questlove Thompson Copy Share Image
I don't like to just talk of Africa, and south of the Sahara in general. No, I'll talk about the Third World… — Huey Newton Copy Share Image
“The civil rights revolution of the 1960s was vital, but it wasn’t a panacea, and the problems of today—from the racial wealth… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We know longer live in a homogenous society, it is not black, white, Asian or Latin, it is a melting pot. Until… — Octavia Spencer Copy Share Image
“Is it possible for white America to really understand blacks’ distrust of the legal system, their fears of racial profiling and the… — Philip Dray Copy Share Image
Being black has been put in such a negative light. For such a long time, being black has been criminalized, but being… — Zozibini Tunzi Copy Share Image
The protesters, in Jerusalem and in Tel Aviv, revealed an open and raw wound at the heart of Israeli society, the pain… — Reuven Rivlin Copy Share Image
Not every alt-right thinker or activist is a white nationalist, by far, but there's a sense that political correctness is a bigger… — David Weigel Copy Share Image
Poverty, the racial divide and social injustice do not impact only those who suffer most visibly. Alleviating poverty and injustice is a… — Marc Morial Copy Share Image
“People – communities, castes, races and even countries – carry their tragic histories and their misfortunes around like trophies, or like stock,… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Black people drink lots of beer. However, you won't see us skiing down a mountain for one, or see us diving for… — Franklyn Ajaye Copy Share Image
Negroes who have been so long inconvenienced and denied opportunities for development are naturally afraid of anything that sounds like discrimination. — Carter G. Woodson Copy Share Image
For many of us the march from Selma to Montgomery was about protest and prayer. Legs are not lips and walking is… — Abraham Joshua Heschel Copy Share Image
When the Negro learns what manner of man he is spiritually, he will wake up all over. He will stop playing white… — Nannie Helen Burroughs Copy Share Image
It's hard for anyone intelligent to be nonviolent. Everything in the universe does something when you start playing with his life, except… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
In one sense, Obama's point couldn't be clearer: race is a distraction from class-based inequities. And if we dismiss working-class resentment as… — Sarah Churchwell Copy Share Image
'Color-blind' comes up - people say 'Oh, I'm color-blind and therefore can't be accused of racism,' but I think that if we… — Justin Simien Copy Share Image
“It struck me that perhaps the defining feature of being drafted into the black race was the inescapable robbery of time, because… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
“The human race is but a monotonous affair. Most of them labour the greater part of their time for mere subsistence; and… — Charles William Eliot Copy Share Image
The NYPD with the unconditional support of Mayor Michael Bloomberg has stopped-and-frisked more black men than there are black men in New… — Chris Hayes Copy Share Image
When I was saying, 'White people go to hell,' I never had trouble finding a publisher. But when I say, 'Black and… — Amiri Baraka Copy Share Image
We have a history of gender and racial bias on our court that continues to undermine the system. Excluding individuals based on… — Anita Hill Copy Share Image
I think it's sad, and weird, and strange that [race in casting] is still a thing. It's 2013. Somebody else needs to… — Shonda Rhimes Copy Share Image
Being a black man in America isn't easy. The hunt is on, and you're the prey. All I'm saying is... All I'm… — Mr Butler Copy Share Image
Yes, I'm an extremist. The Black race here in North America is in extremely bad condition. You show me a Black man… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
“In a society where one form of gross inequality is institutionalized, it is easier for other forms of inequality to flourish as… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There's a class divide in black America that doesn't seem to trouble black Americans so much, but whites use it and exploit… — Darryl Pinckney Copy Share Image
These Negroes who go for integration and intermarriage are linking up with the very people who lynched their fathers, raped their mothers,… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
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