The vast majority of the race whether savage or civilized, are secretly kind at heart and shrink from inflicting pain, but in… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I've had the privilege of being a part of many different circles that have included some very powerful and influential people of… — Brian Flores Copy Share Image
While it has become “cool” for white folks to hang out with black people and express pleasure in black culture, most white… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
It could never be a correct justification that, because the whites oppressed us yesterday when they had power, that the blacks must… — Robert Mugabe Copy Share Image
Racism is not just slavery and Jim Crow. It is the daily violence that is enacted on our communities each and every… — Cori Bush Copy Share Image
I do not share the gloomy thought that Negroes in America are doomed to be stomped out bodaciously, nor even shackled to… — Zora Neale Hurston Copy Share Image
It is extremely important that we send a message out across to everybody that Black lives matter because it is a thing… — Callum Hudson-Odoi Copy Share Image
Growing up in a predominantly white area of the predominantly white state of Wisconsin, it was, I'm sad to say, relatively easy… — Joe Thomas Copy Share Image
In popular culture, there is this notion that African-American men and women can't get together, and we're having these issues. I think… — Salim Akil Copy Share Image
The issue of racism and racial prejudice. It is very, very difficult to discuss. It is difficult to discuss the issue of… — Thabo Mbeki Copy Share Image
For centuries in this country, black people were seen as three-fifths of a person. So when you hear the national anthem or… — Maya Moore Copy Share Image
“For individuals to feel justified in doing horrible things to other people, they must feel an unwavering certainty in their own righteousness,… — Mark Manson Copy Share Image
Let's look at two things real quickly: the civil rights movement in Mississippi in the Sixties and the Arab Spring starting in… — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
No other creative field is as closed to those who are not white and male as is the visual arts. After I… — Faith Ringgold Copy Share Image
It's the culture, not the blood. If you can go anywhere in the world and adopt these babies and put them into… — Steve King Copy Share Image
A key text for me is James Baldwin's essays. And, in particular, his essay Stranger in the Village. It's a text that… — Glenn Ligon Copy Share Image
When the Negro cries with pain from his deep hurt and lays his petition for elemental justice before the nation, he is… — Mordecai Wyatt Johnson Copy Share Image
White people get to do that all of the time. They get to engage in bad behavior, even felonious behavior, but they… — Yance Ford Copy Share Image
“…I wondered if there had been a more corroding and devastating attack upon the personalities of men than the idea of racial… — Richard Wright Copy Share Image
I went to Macalester in Minnesota to study social psychology, the study of why people do what they do. I was really… — Danai Gurira Copy Share Image
The clock has been turned back on racial progress in America, though scarcely anyone seems to notice. All eyes are fixed on… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
Racism is a disease in society. We're all equal. I don't care what their colour is, or religion. Just as long as… — Mandawuy Yunupingu Copy Share Image
The tendency to conformity in our society is so strong that reasonably intelligent and well-meaning young people are willing to call white… — Solomon Asch Copy Share Image
One of the hallmarks of the American justice system is that it should be blind to individuals' idiosyncratic descriptors, including biological sex,… — Gad Saad Copy Share Image
Racism is a belief system. It was assembled over centuries from many component parts - bits of biblical scripture, the propaganda of… — David Olusoga Copy Share Image
For all of the continued awareness of systemic violence and oppression, there isn't a lot of talk about that psychological toll of… — Tavi Gevinson Copy Share Image
The main barrier between East and West today is that the white man is not willing to give up his superiority and… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
When you play sports, when you're on a team with people from different walks of life, and you have to look after… — Ed Reed Copy Share Image
“Seek not equality with either white or any other nation open your eyes and see behind their pretended pleasure and power is… — Sun Ra Copy Share Image
Depression as one example is an illness that has a chemical basis, but also is deeply embedded in cultural norms about gender,… — Jonathan Michel Metzl Copy Share Image
“We need a conversion of morals," the elderly man said. "Not just superficially, but profoundly. And in both races. We need a… — John Howard Griffin Copy Share Image
There is no monolithic black culture. It's completely different for someone born in Harlem to someone born in Houston or London with… — Justin Simien Copy Share Image
One of the triumphs of the Civil Rights Movement is that when you travel through the South today, you do not feel… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
You can't control the fact that you are born a white man or born into wealth. When people say, 'Check your privilege,'… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
I was very conscious of race as I was writing. I was lucky to have spent real time in Portuguese Africa, but… — Jon Weisman Copy Share Image
If but a few live coals are found in a mountain of ashes, no one should be disappointed. Genius is a rare… — Wallace Thurman Copy Share Image
I don't think it's entirely paranoid to suspect that one day, you won't be able to so much as question the primary… — Jim Goad Copy Share Image
I do not admit... that a great wrong has been done to the Red Indians of America, or the black people of… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Racism is a problem, economic inequality is a problem, not enough rock n' roll on the radio is a problem. But all… — Tom Morello Copy Share Image
“Every hope of the existence of church and of state, and of civilization itself, hangs upon our arduous effort to defeat the… — Robert Lewis Dabney Copy Share Image
