I never held Negroes to be inherently inferior. The statement in Marriage and Morals refers to environmental conditioning. I have had it… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Many well-meaning intelligent people have argued since the May 17, 1954, decision of the United States Supreme Court outlawing segregation in the… — Benjamin E. Mays Copy Share Image
We couldn't have known - who could've predicted what happened in American politics in the 2016? The rise of racism again, or… — George Pelecanos Copy Share Image
One of the points in which I was especially interested was the Jim Crow regulations, that is, the system of separation of… — Ray Stannard Baker Copy Share Image
“Diversity… is not polite accommodation. Instead, diversity is, in action, the sometimes painful awareness that other people, other races, other voices, other… — William Chase Copy Share Image
In a sense the quest for the emancipation of black people in the U.S. has always been a quest for economic liberation… — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
I learned that when I go in a store and a person of color goes in the store, that they might watch… — Mack Brown Copy Share Image
“Now in speaking like this, it doesn’t mean that we’re anti-white, but it does mean we’re anti-exploitation, we’re anti-degradation, we’re anti-oppression. And… — Joy James Copy Share Image
“I say to you today, my friends, that in spite of the difficulties and frustrations of the moment, I still have a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Ninety percent of those admitted to prison for drug offenses in many states were black or Latino, yet the mass incarceration of… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
Martin didn't start the Civil Rights Movement, he was chosen to head it. You didn't start the movement, but in your actions… — Eugene Nathaniel Butler Copy Share Image
“But then, if it’s the case that we can care about citizens and the police, shouldn’t the rallying cry just be All… — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
“Papering over the issue of race makes for bad social theory, bad research, and bad public policy.” To ignore the fact that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you have an all-white neighborhood you don't call it a segregated neighborhood. But you call an all-black neighborhood a segregated neighborhood.… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
“Beloved, to be white is to know that you have at your own hand, or by extension, through institutionalized means, the power… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
Even when black youth gangs target white strangers on the streets and spew out racial hatred as they batter them and rob… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
There's racism and sexism and ageism and all sorts of idiocies. But bad news is not news. We've had bad news as… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
South Africa is labouring to find its revolutionary path; the colours of the Rainbow Nation have difficulty blending together; the wealthy elites… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
In America, you're just an American. You're accepted. It doesn't matter that you're of whatever race. If anything, I'm British, and that's… — Benedict Wong Copy Share Image
“As we admit our inadequacy to run the race alone and accept God's gracious redemption, then the race begins to have meaning,… — Cynthia Heald Copy Share Image
I knew racial discrimination at its worst in the 1930s. I lived with the humility of it but I never lost my… — Nipsey Russell Copy Share Image
..And the same rapper who revels in a woman's finely proportioned behind may also speak against racism and on behalf of the… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
When the culture is strong, you've got this consistency where black people can grow up in these places with this voice just… — Bernice Johnson Reagon Copy Share Image
“Zurara’s inaugural racist ideas, in other words, were a product of, not a producer of, Prince Henry’s racist policies concerning African slave-trading.1” — Ibram X. Kendi Copy Share Image
“The educated negroes have the attitude of contempt toward thier own people because they are taught to admire the Hebrews, the Greek,… — Carter G. Woodson Copy Share Image
A lot of people felt defeated and hopeless by Trump's election. But I feel his election should energize people to resist apathy,… — Shepard Fairey Copy Share Image
I just don't feel the whole white guilt and pussy-footing around race issues. I'm completely above all that. I've never worried about… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
If I was black or Hispanic, I wouldn't get any criticism. Because I'm white, people expect so much more out of me.… — Tommy Morrison Copy Share Image
We used to say poor people had lousy genes. Then we decided that wasn't OK, but we transferred the prejudice to upbringing.… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
People across metro Detroit face discrimination every day in housing, employment, insurance - the list goes on. It might not always be… — Rashida Tlaib Copy Share Image
Any discrimination, like sharp turns in a road, becomes critical because of the tremendous speed at which we are traveling into the… — Clarence Thomas Copy Share Image
“There are two equal and opposite errors into which our race can fall about the devils. One is to disbelieve in their… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Everybody has told the story of black people in struggle except black people. The black people in the struggle haven't had the… — DeRay Mckesson Copy Share Image
I think African Americans are resilient and hustlers by nature. I think they need to understand that you can take that hustle… — Daymond John Copy Share Image
By swallowing the false narrative of systemic racism, we have demonized and criminalized police while turning criminals into civil-rights martyrs. — Miranda Devine Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as race. None. There is just a human race -- scientifically, anthropologically. Racism is a construct, a… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
You could feel America starting to ease up a little bit on racism, against blacks in certain pockets, and then suddenly The… — Adam McKay Copy Share Image
Environmental injustice is a tangible, intolerable example of an exhibited moral laxity and minimal concern for healthy standards by corporations and political… — Bernice King Copy Share Image
I've grown up with racism my entire life. I've been bullied, sent to the hospital, beat up, I've been called a Chink… — Arden Cho Copy Share Image
I'm felt I was writing about love and desire and community and belonging and grief and a whole host of other issues.… — Danzy Senna Copy Share Image
