To give preference to the life of a being simply because that being is a member of our species would put us… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
Don't tell me I have latent sexism or racism that I need to confront. I don't believe that. I think we are… — Sara Paretsky Copy Share Image
If whiteness were of no particular advantage, then having a fuller color wheel of skin tones would be purely a matter of… — Eric Liu Copy Share Image
One of the great difficulties about being a member of a minority race is that so many kindhearted, well-meaning bores gather around… — Langston Hughes Copy Share Image
I travel Europe every couple of weeks. I just came back from London, Holland and Denmark. Every nation on this planet has… — Montel Williams Copy Share Image
We had a Judeo-Christian ethic hanging around a couple thousand years that didn't help erase racism at all. So the notion of… — Norman Lear Copy Share Image
Black people in America, people from the struggle, immigrants, it's no generational wealth that we are attached to, so we are tasked… — Nipsey Hussle Copy Share Image
What I believe unites the people of this nation, regardless of race or region or party, young or old, rich or poor,… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“...new prejudices will serve as well as old ones to harness the great unthinking masses. For this enlightenment, however, nothing is required… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
It did not seem to me that prejudice, poverty, discrimination, repression and racism were confined to the North of Ireland. I could… — Bernadette Devlin Copy Share Image
“White, is not a race, it is a color, European, is not a race, it is a place named after the goddess… — Ron McVan Copy Share Image
And then there was moments with white guy where like we would be in Harlem. There would be five brothers in the… — Sanaa Lathan Copy Share Image
I have a dream that one day, down in Alabama, with its vicious racists, with its governor having his lips dripping with… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Why should you row a boat race? Why endure the long months of pain in preparation for a fierce half hour that… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
Our only hope today lies in our ability to recapture the revolutionary spirit and go out into a sometimes hostile world declaring… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
“As a form of neurosis, race-conscious nationalism almost always ignores logic and knowledge: In the East European civil wars between 1918 and… — Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn Copy Share Image
I don't draw any distinctions between forms of bigotry or forms of ideology that lose sight of the humanity of people. I… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
“All efforts of the colonialist are directed toward maintaining thsi social immobility, and racism is the surest weapon this aim. Racism appears… — Albert Memmi Copy Share Image
If the white man wants to hold on to it, let him do so; but the Negro, so far as he is… — Carter G. Woodson Copy Share Image
To never think about race means that it doesn't really shape your life, or more specifically, the race that you have is… — Kimberle Williams Crenshaw Copy Share Image
You have got to believe in yourself every time you go out there and race. If you have no faith in your… — Maurice Greene Copy Share Image
I remember what it was like to grow up in the South in the 1960s and 1970s. Discrimination isn’t something that’s easy… — Tim Cook Copy Share Image
I could see from this, that perhaps if white Americans could accept the Oneness of God, then perhaps, too, they could accept… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
We have to convince the white worker that they have something to gain by forming a solidarity politics with black workers because… — Marc Lamont Hill Copy Share Image
On the one side was bigotry, ignorance, hatred, superstition, every sort of blackness that the human mind is capable of. On the… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Sidney Poitier became a star in part by helping black and white Americans negotiate their new relationship in the post-Civil Rights era. — Wesley Morris Copy Share Image
As you keep pulling back the layers of how deeply rooted anti-blackness and white supremacy are in this country, it is exhausting,… — Alicia Garza Copy Share Image
After all the black man has been through in this world, he can still often reach levels of spirituality the most pampered… — Ben Stein Copy Share Image
I, for one, would think both about how far we have come as a country and how much further we need to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Controlling for all the things that sociologists, economists, and political scientists say you should control for, we find that what drives one's… — Michael C Dawson Copy Share Image
I'm not a prejudice person, and I've worked with many male legislators and some have been excellent for us, so I'm not… — Eleanor Smeal Copy Share Image
You must address the historical and political differences in race and ethnicity in this country before you hold tenaciously to insubstantial, and… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
When we talk about total war, and we talk about war zones, and we talk about the breakdown of the cities, when… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
Racism is always there underneath, but usually it is exploited in these times of economic crisis, and it's hard to find out… — Iris Chang Copy Share Image
“So many black families spend all of their time trying to fix the problems of the past. That is the curse of… — Trevor Noah Copy Share Image
“As Alcoff (1998: 18) argues, ‘Racism appears to be deeply sedimented into white psyches in a process that is newly reenforced [sic]… — Clare Land Copy Share Image
The writer in me can look as far as an African-American woman and stop. Often that writer looks through the African-American woman.… — Thylias Moss Copy Share Image
If we dismiss from our minds the prejudice we may have against the Indians we shall be able to more clearly understand… — Nelson A. Miles Copy Share Image
I'm not going to play a racial game. With me, you're going to meet a guy named Shelby Steele, and you will… — Shelby Steele Copy Share Image
We still have to struggle against the impact of racism, but it doesn't happen in the same way. I think it is… — Angela Davis Copy Share Image