I warn young people that I interact with about this - you get into unrealistic expectations where you think that, "Oh, we're… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
That is the thing that brought the Black community through so many of the hardships that we've faced historically. It's the ability… — KiKi Layne Copy Share Image
I remember being asked for the first time about my race, and it really took me by surprise, just that it was… — Francesca Hayward Copy Share Image
“The worst mistake you can make, Kroeber taught, is to see another person through the lens of your prejudices. The second worst… — Paul La Farge Copy Share Image
I do not see how a people that can find in its conscience any excuse whatever for slowly burning to death a… — James Weldon Johnson Copy Share Image
Even in the era of the first black president, racism is still the most intractable issue in USA. Regarding poverty, half of… — Tavis Smiley Copy Share Image
No matter your race, it's important to see someone who looks like you doing what you love. It makes it more realistic.… — Jimmie Allen Copy Share Image
A friend to me has no race, no class and belongs to no minority. My friendships were formed out of affection, mutual… — Frank Sinatra Copy Share Image
Is not nationalism - that devotion to a flag, an anthem, a boundary so fierce it engenders mass murder - one of… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
Living here in North America - I have been Americanized. When I go back home now, there are things that I have… — Kandyse McClure Copy Share Image
“O cowardly amd tyrannous race of monks, persecutors of the bard, and the gleemen, haters of life and joy! O race that… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
We should emphasize not Negro History, but the Negro in history. What we need is not a history of selected races or… — Carter G. Woodson Copy Share Image
“There is no reason for you to try to become like white people and there is no basis whatever for their impertinent… — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
Religion has failed us. Christ was not a Christian. Buddha was not a Buddhist. Mohammed was not a Mohammedan. And yet ever… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
“there are two races of men in this world, but only these two - the "race" of the decent man and the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I grew up in the South [USA states] under segregation. I know what terrorism feels like - when your father could be… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
We are a race of women that of old knew no fear and feared no death, and lived great lives and hoped… — Olive Schreiner Copy Share Image
“If Democrats call you a racist because you are a conservative or a Republican, that tells you that you are hated because… — David Horowitz Copy Share Image
Relations between black and white would be greatly improved if we were more accepting of our fears and our feelings and more… — Sarah Silverman Copy Share Image
The share of Americans who say race relations are bad in this country is the highest it's been in decades, much of… — Lester Holt Copy Share Image
To be clear, the gap between the have gots and the have nots is widening. In this most multicultural, multiracial, multiethnic America… — Tavis Smiley Copy Share Image
I never really had to put much thought into my race, and neither did anybody else. I knew I was black. I… — Issa Rae Copy Share Image
Racial terrorism affects the lives of white people and black people and everyone, everything. Racism is contaminating. It can affect the dogs… — Ayana Mathis Copy Share Image
We have a man [Donald Trump] who judges people based on their performance regardless of your gender, race, your ethnic or religious… — Chris Christie Copy Share Image
I've been using the phrase Black Lives Matter quite a lot. I'm not saying that all lives don't matter, I'm just saying… — Kalvin Phillips Copy Share Image
We can't all work in the inner city. And, I don't even think that it is incumbent upon an African-American intellectual to… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
I come from a family of Mississippi sharecroppers just a few generations away from slavery, and I experienced a lot of racism… — Carrie Mae Weems Copy Share Image
A greater truth that I think we are faced with on a day-to-day basis as minorities is: We are the color of… — Jordan Peele Copy Share Image
It's just a fact that if you're a young African-American man and you do the same thing as a young white man,… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
“This is not to portray race as simply one among many issues, each with equal weight; instead, race has been the principal… — Ian Haney López Copy Share Image
Sexist language, racist language, theistic language - all are typical of the policing languages of mastery, and cannot, do not, permit new… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
Racial oppression of black people in America has done what neither class oppression or sexual oppression, with all their perniciousness, has ever… — Eleanor Holmes Norton Copy Share Image
The Army has carried the American ... ideal to its logical conclusion. Not only do they prohibit discrimination on the grounds of… — Tom Lehrer Copy Share Image
It’s often said that those who are unduly bothered by gays are latent homosexuals. Isn’t it possible that people obsessed with racism… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
Obviously there is no such thing as race, and in many ways, sex is a continuum, not a binary. So it doesn't… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
“Many whites, now proclaiming that science proved that people of African descent were intellectually inferior and congenitally prone to criminal behavior, looked… — Edward E. Baptist Copy Share Image
Homophobia is the idiocy in person. It's a harmful and destructive behavior that must be discouraged by all and every peaceful but… — Jean-Paul Malfatti Copy Share Image
“Having children is the greatest sin in this country, according to Madam X. After a series of experiments, Madam X has concluded… — Charles Stevenson Wright Copy Share Image
“Obama had always to field demands from some blacks to be blacker, and the wish of many whites to whitewash the story… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
“Because racism exists, and you have to pick a side. You can say that you don’t pick sides, but eventually life will… — Trevor Noah Copy Share Image
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