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Martin Luther King was a misguided leader. He worked to be recognized as the leader of black America, when what black America… — Don Yaeger Copy Share Image
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Almost all of my early art dealt with the fallout from middle-class taboos, the messy, the ambivalent emotions couples felt, the inherent… — Eric Fischl Copy Share Image
Exploitation and oppression is not a matter of race. It is the system, the apparatus of world-wide brigandage called imperialism, which made… — Han Suyin Copy Share Image
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330,000 members of the Fraternal Order of Police see Trump's commitment to law and order. But they also - they also hear… — Mike Pence Copy Share Image
We should not be post-racial: seeking to get beyond the uplifting meanings and edifying registers of blackness. Rather, we should be post-racist:… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
Our love of lockstep is our greatest curse, the source of all that bedevils us. It is the source of homophobia, xenophobia,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
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I don't see black people as victims even though we are exploited. Victims are flat, one- dimensional characters, someone rolled over by… — Kristin Hunter Copy Share Image
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The first who attracts the eye, the first in enlightenment, in power and in happiness, is the white man, the European, man… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
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The Negro who experiences bitter and agonizing circumstances as a result of some ungodly white person is tempted to look upon all… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
“Such racist theories, prominent and respectable for many decades, have become anathema among scientists and politicians alike. People continue to conduct a… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
This is the 21st century, and we would all like to think racism is dead in America. Actually, that's not the case:… — Alveda King Copy Share Image
I think what a lot of people don't realize is how much being the leader of this movement weighed upon him. After… — David Oyelowo Copy Share Image
Progress has always been understood to be driven by exceptional white men. Whether it's the military victories we've achieved, the philosophical foundations… — Kerry James Marshall Copy Share Image
We recriminalized black life. Incarceration rates since the 1908s have gone through the roof, overwhelmingly black males, women and Hispanics to some… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
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The Malays are spiritually inclined, tolerant, and easy-going. The non-Malays, and especially the Chinese, are materialistic, aggressive, and have an appetite for… — Mahathir Mohamad Copy Share Image
That we have come as far as we have in forty years [the 1930s to the 1970s] is hopeful, though I believe… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
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We think of Shots Fired as almost an autopsy of Ferguson that shows the events from every street in the house. And,… — Gina Prince-Bythewood Copy Share Image
The essential relationship across American history between black people and white people is one of exploitation and one of plunder. This is… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
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Most poor people in America are white. The family breakdown issue is an issue that crosses all sorts of racial lines. High… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
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Crisis' seems to be too mild a word to describe conditions in countless African-American communities. It is beyond crisis when in the… — Johnnetta B. Cole Copy Share Image
![“I think what a lot of people don't realize is how much being the leader of this movement weighed upon him. After all, he [Dr. Martin Luter King] was only 39 years-old when he was assassinated, and only 36 during the Selma campaign. He always seemed older than he actually was, and I believe part of…” quote by David Oyelowo](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/876/david-oyelowo-7952_believe_i-think-what-a-lot-of-people-don-t-reali_2056391.jpg)
![“That we have come as far as we have in forty years [the 1930s to the 1970s] is hopeful, though I believe it is more through the fact that Hitler's excesses made racism poisonous to any humane individual than through our own virtue. That we have much farther to go is incontestable.” quote by Isaac Asimov](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/64e/isaac-asimov-309_racism_that-we-have-come-as-far-as-we-have-in-f_2840148.jpg)
