Black men struggle with masculinity so much. The idea that we must always be strong really presses us all down - it… — Donald Glover Copy Share Image
White folks was in the caves while we [blacks] was building empires ... We built pyramids before Donald Trump ever knew what… — Al Sharpton Copy Share Image
No. What would I look like fighting for equality with the white man? I don't want to go down that low. I… — Fannie Lou Hamer Copy Share Image
The whites were really brutishly ignorant, blitheringly, so they killed people sometimes - just came into the African-American community and maimed people… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Being politically correct does not change the existence of poor race relations; it just gives us an acceptable mask to hide behind… — Phaedra Parks Copy Share Image
Because I grew up in Chicago, I didn't have an emotional relationship to segregation. I understood the facts and stories, but there… — Diane Nash Copy Share Image
I definitely think men can be leaders. I see an analogy in the case of what helped me think about racism, which… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Wearing that uniform for Team U.S.A., we represent everyone in America and yet, under that umbrella, we are also representing people that… — Breanna Stewart Copy Share Image
Today the governments of Latin America should be ashamed of not havingexterminated the indigenous, at the end of the twentieth century, because… — Rigoberta Menchu Copy Share Image
“Racism is both overt and covert. It takes two, closely related forms: individual whites acting against individual blacks, and acts by the… — Stokely Carmichael Copy Share Image
The other thing about the Nights is that it is quite racist. One parentheses is that I think this is one of… — Marina Warner Copy Share Image
Racism is taught in the home. We agree on that? Well, it's very hard to teach racism to a teenager who's listening… — Jay-Z Copy Share Image
We're all in the race game, so to speak, either consciously or unconsciously. We can overtly support white-supremacist racial projects. We can… — Robert Jensen Copy Share Image
We cannot reform institutional racism or systemic policies if we are not actively engaged. It's not enough to simply complain about injustice;… — Al Sharpton Copy Share Image
“You are kept apart that you may be separately fleeced of your earnings. You are made to hate each other because upon… — Thomas E Watson Copy Share Image
One belief, more than any other, is responsible for the slaughter of individuals on the alter of the great historical ideas -… — Isaiah Berlin Copy Share Image
I do think, however, that there's a very diverse point of view in the African-American community. There's a lot of different voices… — J. C. Watts Copy Share Image
“I am quite sure ... I have no race prejudice, and I think I have no color prejudices, nor caste prejudices. Indeed,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
To judge someone before understanding that person is a form of human rejection and feeds upon itself. It intensifies personal insecurities, necessitating… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Also, of course, for most of this time most Americans thought of America as a white country with, at best, only a… — Samuel P. Huntington Copy Share Image
I myself have seen the same racism happen to me and my Dad... I think about all the stories I have growing… — Jamal Murray Copy Share Image
Systemic racism is something that diminishes all of us. Of course its worst effects are for its victims, but our entire country… — Pete Buttigieg Copy Share Image
I think that people are still trying to understand each other and overcome prejudices. And people are still, most important, loving each… — Joe Wright Copy Share Image
There shall be equality of treatment and opportunity for all persons in the armed services without regard to race, color, religion or… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
A lot of people of color and the Black Lives Matter movement will talk about what's really happening, but it seems like… — Jamila Woods Copy Share Image
All the struggles that were fought for here in the United States for African Americans, you now enjoy the privileges of. You… — Danai Gurira Copy Share Image
I regard the Klan, the Anglo-Saxon clubs and White American societies, as far as the Negro is concerned, as better friends of… — Marcus Garvey Copy Share Image
The “new black” doesn’t blame other races for our issues. The “new black” dreams and realizes that it’s not a pigmentation; it’s… — Pharrell Williams Copy Share Image
I'm not a racist, that's what so insane about this, and yet it's said, it comes through, it fires out of me,… — Michael Richards Copy Share Image
"Family" this and "family" that. If I had a family I'd be furious that moral busybodies are taking the perfectly good word… — John Waters Copy Share Image
“Not as much as it bothers me that you just grabbed me without even trying to warn me first. If you’re trying… — Jennifer Silverwood Copy Share Image
The NAACP ignores the wellspring of racism from within its own ranks, daring to brand anyone who disagrees with the standard they… — Dana Loesch Copy Share Image
I might have been lucky to grow up in the 90s, but I think, actually, we started getting complacent about prejudice. We… — Nish Kumar Copy Share Image
Living in South Korea as a girl meant living under a lot of discrimination and limitation. It was the same in my… — Kim Hyesoon Copy Share Image
Southerners are the more lonely and spiritually estranged, I think, because we have lived so long in an artificial social system that… — Carson McCullers Copy Share Image
“English does not distinguish between arrogant-up (irreverence toward the temporarily powerful) and arrogant-down (directed at the small guy).” — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
Of course there are individual racists in America. Sadly that's true. And sadly that will always be true. It's true in this… — Monica Crowley Copy Share Image
“it is embarrassing for Coca-Cola to be located in a city that refuses to honor its Nobel Prize winner. We are an… — J Paul Austin Copy Share Image
I was lucky, as many of my generation was, in having a man like Dr. King in our lives. He came at… — Lena Horne Copy Share Image
Our country comes from a centuries-long culture of dehumanizing black and brown bodies. So what role does racism play? A huge role.… — Maya Moore Copy Share Image
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