one question for me and others like me is whether ... we will get truly distressed, even outraged, about unearned race advantage… — Peggy McIntosh Copy Share Image
You'd be amazed how many Black men from the 'hood to Harvard have heard 'Black men are trash' their whole lives, from… — Jason Johnson Copy Share Image
There is no racial or religious prejudice among people in the theater. The only prejudice is against bad actors, especially successful ones. — Helen Hayes Copy Share Image
Every day we all make mistakes ourselves, but, and we all sometimes have some...harbor some prejudices and all, but we have to… — Russell Simmons Copy Share Image
It is incorrect to classify the revolt of the Negro as simply a radical conflict of black against white or as a… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
The tolerance within the body of Islam was, and is, something without parallel in history; class and race and color ceasing altogether… — Marmaduke Pickthall Copy Share Image
I am a homophobe, though a mild and tolerant one, and a racist, though an even more mild and tolerant one, and… — John Derbyshire Copy Share Image
What the Black lives matter movement is doing is they are making it personal. They are making it hash tagged, exposing the… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
The children of Birmingham did not really die in the State of Alabama, however, because Alabama is a state of mind, and… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
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A society struggles to fulfill its best instincts, even as an individual does, and generally makes just as hard going of it.… — Margaret Halsey Copy Share Image
The 1990s were also when a bunch of the soft-shoe language for race, gender, and class became paramount. Because before that I… — Adrian Matejka Copy Share Image
These movements aren't about anger. We're not angrily saying 'Black Lives Matter.' We're declaring it. It's a declaration. We want to be… — Tarana Burke Copy Share Image
The economic philosophy of black nationalism only means that our people need to be re-educated into the importance of controlling the economy… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Quick condemnation of all that is not ours, of views with which we disagree, of ideas that do not attract us, is… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
Black people we've been taught that we will never be free, until some will have to die, some will have to give… — Muhammad Ali Copy Share Image
White male privilege remains alive in America, but the phrase would seem odd, if not infuriating, to a sixty-year-old man working as… — George Packer Copy Share Image
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But, on the other hand, I get bored with racism too and recognize that there are still many things to be said… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
Martin Luther King was a voice to the voiceless, and he did that tirelessly, and his faith was the engine to that.… — David Oyelowo Copy Share Image
A lot has happened since Dr. King left us. He probably wouldn't recognize the landscape if he saw it, but I still… — Morris Dees Copy Share Image
I believe the NME have deliberately tried to characterise me as a racist in a recent interview in order to boost their… — Steven Morrissey Copy Share Image
Well of course there's been a great deal of progress over the last 40 years. We don't have laws that segregate black… — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
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Racism is an ism to which everyone in the world today is exposed; for or against, we must take sides. And the… — Ruth Benedict Copy Share Image
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Racism, specifically, is the state-sanctioned or extralegal production and exploitation of group-differentiated vulnerability to premature death. — Ruth Wilson Gilmore Copy Share Image
I cannot help wondering sometimes what I might have become and might have done if I had lived in a country which… — Mary Church Terrell Copy Share Image
People say all lives matter. And that's true, but it's just black people that are getting shot in the back running or… — Ras Baraka Copy Share Image
“so absorbed is the white world with its domestic dissensions that it pays scant heed to racial problems whose importance for the… — T. Lothrop Stoddard Copy Share Image
Many black people I know are proud of the Irish part of their heritage - an Irish grandparent, say - but they… — Tom Paulin Copy Share Image
Black people need to share collective dollars and demand equal representation, and the way you do that is by controlling their own… — Killer Mike Copy Share Image
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