We can see that the complexity we witness inside the African-American community today has always been there. Black people were just as… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
As black people we were out to further our equality. I don't pay attention to the controversial connotations put on by media… — Chuck D Copy Share Image
If some black man go out and start something, a riot or something or, I'm not going to jump in it and… — Muhammad Ali Copy Share Image
When I get a case about discrimination, I have to think about people in my own family who suffered discrimination because of… — Samuel Alito Copy Share Image
“When dealing with people, let us remember we are not dealing with creatures of logic. We are dealing with creatures of emotion,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My family, friends and community members rarely spoke about race relations, or how people from different races have different experiences growing up… — Joe Thomas Copy Share Image
I think people from Northern Ireland have some kind of unspoken general feeling of what it is to be around segregation. You… — Jamie Dornan Copy Share Image
The arousing of prejudice, pity, anger, and similar emotions has nothing to do with the essential facts, but is merely a personal… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
“We were still confined to that corner. More and more people joined us, some black and some white. On the second day,… — Junius Williams Copy Share Image
“Our progress in degeneracy appears to me to be pretty rapid. As a nation, we began by declaring that 'all men are… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
“It is never too late to give up our prejudices. No way of thinking or doing, however ancient, can be trusted without… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
As someone who was gay bashed as a kid, I learned firsthand how a lot of people only feel good about themselves… — Dan Mathews Copy Share Image
“The people we find truly anathema are the ones who reduce the past to caricature and distort it to fit their own… — Sarah A. Chrisman Copy Share Image
“The demand to be intimate or honest with a public can be invasive when the experiences of racial others are commodified as… — Mimi Thi Nguyen Copy Share Image
[Before the Civil Rights Act of 1964], many governments in southern states forced people to segregate by race. Civil rights advocates fought… — Harry Browne Copy Share Image
... there is a place in the United States for the Negro. They are real American citizens, and at home. They have… — Amanda Smith Copy Share Image
White privilege is the unquestioned and unearned set of advantages, entitlements benefits and choices bestowed on people solely because they are white.… — Peggy McIntosh Copy Share Image
Why is our own participation in scapegoating so difficult to perceive and the participation of others so easy? To us, our fears… — Rene Girard Copy Share Image
Non violent action, the Negro saw, was the way to supplement, not replace, the progress of change. It was the way to… — Martin Luther King Jr Copy Share Image
We are each born into a situation-a particular body (its race, sex, health...), a set of ancestors, a community, a nation-and born… — Lewis Hyde Copy Share Image
“An insuperable difference of race, made by God and not by man, and of character and social condition, makes it plainly impossible… — Robert Lewis Dabney Copy Share Image
The approach of recognizing marriage between two people, without limitations, responds to a problem of eliminating all types of discrimination in society. — Miguel Diaz-Canel Copy Share Image
As for the European far left, it has very little to do with Marxism-Leninism these days. It has more to do with… — Toomas Hendrik Ilves Copy Share Image
What has this world come to. So many people are judged out there and no one really intervenes just watches and has… — Brad D'Roza Copy Share Image
Mankind are an incorrigible race. Give them but bugbears and idols -- it is all that they ask; the distinctions of right… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
“Do you know how long it takes to charm people from Maine? They're uptight white people coated with a hard exterior made… — Joel Stein Copy Share Image
Our prejudices - we all have them - are part of our personality structure. The problem is that our prejudices may lie… — Gerry Spence Copy Share Image
The fact that educated white women automatically assume that we have similar backgrounds annoys me. We don't. I feel like I'm in… — Patricia McConnell Copy Share Image
You should always be prepared to win. But as much as I tell myself that, I've accepted another kind of role. Racism… — Ruby Dee Copy Share Image
It's usually human drama that carries with it issues of race or class that attracts me. That was certainly the case with… — Steve James Copy Share Image
“Ari: The serial number was now my new name. I was dehumanized. I was branded like an animal, but was treated worse.… — Christopher Huh Copy Share Image
“If you’re too slow off a red light, I’ll lay on my horn, because I’m a honky. Was that racist? Only if… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
Feminism isn't simply about being a woman in a position of power. It's battling systemic inequities; it's a social justice movement that… — Jessica Valenti Copy Share Image
It is dangerous to be an American Negro male. America has never wanted its Negroes to be men, and does not, generally,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The impact of racism has changed our look at ourselves because basically racism was meant to make us look unfaithfully at ourselves,… — John Henrik Clarke Copy Share Image
Martin Luther King Jr. was a Southern, conservative minister who believed in the American promise. His dream was patriotic and traditional. Family,… — Jason Whitlock Copy Share Image
People think racist abuse stops on the football pitch, but that's just the beginning. When you go home, you are still confronted… — Edgar Davids Copy Share Image
Although the doctrine of innate equality of the race has been proclaimed, yet so far as woman is concerned it has been… — Amelia Bloomer Copy Share Image
All I demand for the black man is, that the white people shall take their heels off his neck, and let him… — William Wells Brown Copy Share Image
In entrepreneurial circles, it's clear to me that violence, hatred, and discrimination - or whatever you want to label it - is… — Brad Feld Copy Share Image
![“[Before the Civil Rights Act of 1964], many governments in southern states forced people to segregate by race. Civil rights advocates fought to repeal these state laws, but failed. So they appealed to the federal government, which responded with the Civil Rights Act of 1964. But this federal law…” quote by Harry Browne](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/489/harry-browne-3285_civil-rights_before-the-civil-rights-act-of-1964-many_1445719.jpg)
