Civil rights happened because youth got involved. The youth stood up and helped to break the pattern that their parents had got… — Octavia Spencer Copy Share Image
I'm from Newcastle and went to Cambridge University and I worried whether I'd fit in; I'm mixed race, so my mum grew… — Vick Hope Copy Share Image
I have visited some places where the differences between black and white are not as profound as they used to be, but… — Montel Williams Copy Share Image
#MeToo shows this bias is systemic, that people get away with violence against women, get away with discrimination - whether in work… — Sharan Burrow Copy Share Image
Never belong to a crowd; Never belong to a nation; Never belong to a religion; Never belong to a race. Belong to… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
I'd be lying to say I've not experienced a lot of racism in my life; it's very much alive. I don't let… — Darius Rucker Copy Share Image
Finally I got to the point where I said, I'd like to start a project where we can actually talk about race… — Bryan Stevenson Copy Share Image
Mainstream dictionary definitions reduce racism to racial prejudice and the personal actions that result. But this definition does little to explain how… — Robin DiAngelo Copy Share Image
There is a great stir about colored men getting their rights, but not a word about the colored women; and if colored… — Sojourner Truth Copy Share Image
“Perhaps struggle is all we have because the god of history is an atheist, and nothing about his world is meant to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
For too long, history has imposed a binary condition on its black citizens: either nameless or renowned, menial or exceptional, passive recipients… — Margot Lee Shetterly Copy Share Image
Someone must show that the Afro-American race is more sinned against than sinning, and it seems to have fallen to me to… — William Wells Brown Copy Share Image
“Racial mixtures after planet-wide wars, mutant births after the nuclear conflicts, had broken down the old intolerance against the "different." And out… — Andre Norton Copy Share Image
But here’s the thing: Appropriation occurs when a style leads to racist generalizations or stereotypes where it originated, but is deemed as… — Amandla Stenberg Copy Share Image
One of the great secrets of the day is to know how to take possession of popular prejudices and passions, in such… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
My parents were 30 years older than I was, and my parents had my brother and I ten years apart. My parents… — Courtney A. Kemp Copy Share Image
We have been proud and thought we were better than any other race, any other people. Ladies and gentlemen, we are going… — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
The infamy of n - - is - it's a word that has been used to terrorize people, to put people down.… — Randall Kennedy Copy Share Image
The Monster Ball is by nature a protest: A youth church experience to speak out and celebrate against all forms of discrimination… — Lady Gaga Copy Share Image
In my humble opinion, preserving racial purity isn't a worthwhile goal. You should be able to date whomever, whenever, wherever without the… — Candace Kita Copy Share Image
There are still traces of discrimination against race and gender, but it's a lot different than when I started out. It just… — Eddie Bernice Johnson Copy Share Image
Every day of my life I have been in situations, not just in Mexico, in the US too, in which I identified… — Bocafloja Copy Share Image
At the heart of the problem is the fact that the United States is a racially divided nation where extreme racial inequalities… — Robert D Bullard Copy Share Image
Like any group that has endured much, African Americans have created a strong and mutually reinforcing sense of group identity. That's not… — J. C. Watts Copy Share Image
My encounters with racism are sort of second-hand situations where I might be standing around with a group of white friends and… — Wentworth Miller Copy Share Image
It is, therefore, essential that we guard our own thinking and not be among those who cry out against prejudices applicable to… — Wendell Willkie Copy Share Image
[W]e have always resented the natural inclination of most white people to demand spirituals the moment it is known that a Negro… — Countee Cullen Copy Share Image
The racism, the sexism, I never let it be my problem. It's their problem. If I see a door comin' my way,… — Rosie Perez Copy Share Image
I am a Muslim and . . . my religion makes me be against all forms of racism. It keeps me from… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
When people who are not black are interested in what I do, frankly, I'm always surprised. I don't know if it's my… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
I wish that all different types of people of all races and all upbringings were all equally represented in this industry that… — Kelly Marie Tran Copy Share Image
I came to the conclusion that in order to end racial barriers, I needed to run for the office of the president… — Jesse Jackson Copy Share Image
To be free you must afford freedom to your neighbor, regardless of race, color, creed, or national origin, and that sometimes, for… — Helen Gahagan Douglas Copy Share Image
If you desire with all your heart, friendship with every race on earth, your thought, spiritual and positive, will spread; it will… — Abdu'l-Bahá Copy Share Image
Listen, I am not naive. I don't expect everything to change overnight. I don't expect the football world to come together to… — Antonio Rudiger Copy Share Image
The Negro's great stumbling block in the drive toward freedom is not the White Citizens Councilor or the Ku Klux Klanner but… — Martin Luther King Jr Copy Share Image
From the Equal Pay Act to the Sex Discrimination Act and the Equality Act through to the minimum wage and Sure Start,… — Rachel Reeves Copy Share Image
Learning -the kind of ignorance affected by (and affecting) civilized races, as distinguished from ignorance, the sort of learning incurred by savages.… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
I'm a Western chauvinist. I'm all about the culture. Now, part of that is recognizing that white males seem to be the… — Gavin McInnes Copy Share Image
Racial segregation must be seen for what it is, and that is an evil system, a new form of slavery covered up… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
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