Every now and then I'm in a situation where someone doesn't recognize me, and I experience racism. Things like not being buzzed… — Chris Rock Copy Share Image
Being a playwright of any race is difficult, and Lord knows it gets more difficult the further you get from the middle… — Suzan-Lori Parks Copy Share Image
The numbers in Ohio as well as the rest of the nation make it clear that the African-American communities have been targeted… — Mark Crutcher Copy Share Image
Great literature should do some good to the reader: must quicken his perception though dull, and sharpen his discrimination though blunt, and… — A. E. Housman Copy Share Image
“the discrimination was ignored or discounted, and the fiscal habits of Black people were blamed for the growing fiscal inequities and segregation… — Ibram X. Kendi Copy Share Image
I hate race discrimination most intensely and in all its manifestations. I have fought it all during my life; I fight it… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
The paramount duty of maintaining public order and defending the interests of our own people may require the adoption of measures of… — Grover Cleveland Copy Share Image
I have worked with President Trump for two years and he is not a racist. He is a compassionate man whose policies… — Mercedes Schlapp Copy Share Image
“The term 'black' was given a rebirth by the black youth revolt. As reborn, it does not refer to the particular color… — Chancellor Williams Copy Share Image
Let it never be said by future generations that indifference, cynicism or selfishness made us fail to live up to the ideals… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, the greater consciousness among Whites about Black equality has not carried over to the new victims of racism - Muslims and… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
We cannot educate white women and take them by the hand. Most of us are willing to help but we can't do… — Gloria E. Anzaldúa Copy Share Image
“The Cold Within" Six humans trapped in happenstance In dark and bitter cold, Each one possessed a stick of wood, Or so… — James Patrick Kinney Copy Share Image
“I don’t subscribe to the notion of seeing no color, that we’re all the same and race doesn’t exist. It’s a social… — Simon S. Tam Copy Share Image
“I understand we all have our differences. But while learning about history I've read about white people coming together, Jews coming together,… — Jonathan Anthony Burkett Copy Share Image
“A cop on a motorcycle roared alongside, waved them to the curb. 'Goin' to a fire?' he demanded. He peered into the… — Ann Petry Copy Share Image
The prejudice was so bad in the United States at that time that a dark person with a white person would not… — Amar Bose Copy Share Image
I felt like there was something I needed to do - speaking to kids and sharing my story with them and helping… — Ruby Bridges Copy Share Image
What if man is not really a scoundrel, man in general, I mean, the whole race of mankind-then all the rest is… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“The tension between people is palpable, and the ideal of what it means to be and look American becomes a preoccupation to… — Raquel Cepeda Copy Share Image
We need to make sure that we have an honest, honest conversation and that we engage honest practices around how racism operates… — Alicia Garza Copy Share Image
Sex prejudice is so ingrained in our society that many who practice it are simply unaware that they are hurting. It is… — Bernice Sandler Copy Share Image
People wouldn't have to hide their true selves - there would be no lines, no walls built, no prejudices against where people… — Innah Delos Angeles Copy Share Image
Integration is a man's ability to want to move in there by himself. If someone wants to live in a white neighborhood… — Stokely Carmichael Copy Share Image
What characterized the whole punk scene for me in 1977 was there was no racism or sexism. It was an anarchy of… — Chrissie Hynde Copy Share Image
Racism really, really makes me mad. I can see identical traits in people from other sides of the world and I can't… — Severn Cullis-Suzuki Copy Share Image
“Racist ideas always seemed to arrive right on time to dress up the ugly economic and political exploitation of African people. Ironically,” — Ibram X. Kendi Copy Share Image
A social problem is one that concerns the way in which people live together in one society. A racial problem is a… — Pauline Hanson Copy Share Image
By the numbers, by all the official records, here at the confluence of history, of racism, of poverty, and economic power, this… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
You're not going to beat the meanness out of a mean dog. You start beating a mean dog, it's gonna become more… — Daryl Davis Copy Share Image
I'd heard of really bad things Klan folks did to Negroes. Mean, hateful, deadly things. I didn't know they were hateful toward… — Clare Vanderpool Copy Share Image
There is a fantasy as old as the modern gay rights movement that if all our skins turned lavender overnight, the majority,… — Ian Mckellen Copy Share Image
It's built into the fabric of this country, you know - oppressing black people socially, politically and economically. They all kind of… — Maverick Carter Copy Share Image
I just think racism is within each and every one of us. It's everyone's responsibility to figure out how they deal with… — Jordan Peele Copy Share Image
I must oppose any attempt that Negroes may make to do to others what has been done to them. . . .… — James A. Baldwin Copy Share Image
We live in a racially imbalanced society and we always have been. Black people have been traditionally disenfranchised and abused and misused… — Simone Missick Copy Share Image
We're all burdened by our history of racial inequality. It's created a kind of smog that we all breathe in, and it… — Bryan Stevenson Copy Share Image
The human rainbow had been mutilated by machismo, racism, militarism and a lot of other isms, who have been terribly killing our… — Eduardo Galeano Copy Share Image
Everybody has asked the question, and they learned to ask it early of the abolitionists, 'What shall we do with the Negro?'… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
“The ironic thing is though, at Williamson I don't have to "play it cool"--I'm cool by default because I'm one of the… — Angie Thomas Copy Share Image
