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What surprises me is-even though discrimination against women and racial discrimination still exist, they have improved a lot, especially among artists. And… — Yoko Ono Copy Share Image
When growing up, I saw segregation. I saw racial discrimination. I saw those signs that said white men, colored men. White women,… — John Lewis Copy Share Image
...The Court ...[recognizes]...the persistence of racial inequality and a majority's acknowledgement of Congress's authority to act affirmatively, not only to end discrimination,… — Ruth Bader Ginsburg Copy Share Image
I think that one of the positions we have taken around the question of race, is that we already know. We know.… — Claudia Rankine Copy Share Image
We need everybody and all that we are. We need to know and make known the complete, constantly unfolding, complicated heritage that… — June Jordan Copy Share Image
The spirit of Dr. [Martin Luther] King and the thousands of people he worked with set the races on a different course… — Peter Hans Kolvenbach Copy Share Image
“Those who have not lived in New Orleans have missed an incredible, glorious, vital city--a place with an energy unlike anywhere else… — Jordan Flaherty Copy Share Image
When someone makes a racist remark, that doesn't make him a racist, but you have to say, 'This the line. You've crossed… — Edgar Davids Copy Share Image
You cannot be responsible for Jim Crow. You can not be responsible for racism. This is much more a problem for the… — Raoul Peck Copy Share Image
When the white race broke out of Europe 500 years ago, it did many astounding things all over the globe. Inspired by… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
White supremacist ideology is based first and foremost on the degradation of black bodies in order to control them. One of the… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
“Let a prejudice be bequeathed, carried in the air, adopted by hearsay, caught in through the eye,–however it may come, these minds… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Integration is the biggest con job ever pulled on any group of people, any nationality in the world. It was a plot… — James Meredith Copy Share Image
Until now we’ve discriminated against each other according to race, religion, age, gender and just about every other differentiation imaginable. Look around… — David Moody Copy Share Image
“the Negro is a sort of seventh son, born with a veil, and gifted with second-sight in this American world,—a world which… — W.E.B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
“In the early years of contemporary feminist movement, solidarity between women was often equated with the formation of "safe" spaces where groups… — bell hooks Copy Share Image
All ultimately intermarried to produce a race of many strains, which may account for the paradox that a people famed for stolid,… — Arthur Bryant Copy Share Image
“Trump,” she declared, to a multicultural audience at a community college, “is reinforcing harmful stereotypes and offering a dog whistle to his… — Joshua Green Copy Share Image
Most whites live, grow, play, learn, love, work and die primarily in social and geographic racial segregation. Yet, our society does not… — Robin DiAngelo Copy Share Image
The problem is there are people in this country - maybe 10%, I don't know what the number, maybe 20% on a… — Chris Matthews Copy Share Image
Yes, racism looks like hate, but hate is just one manifestation. Privilege is another. Access is another. Ignorance is another. Apathy is… — Scott Woods Copy Share Image
I don't know what to say about Asians. I think everyone is "racist," to differing degrees, in that everyone's brain will automatically… — Tao Lin Copy Share Image
The human race is divided into two sharply differentiated and mutually antagonistic classes: a smal l minority that plays with ideas and… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
The fact that there's a more open discussion about everything from feminism to racism ... I look at my two boys ... this is their future… — Michael Buble Copy Share Image
“I am opposed to animal welfare campaigns for two reasons. First, if animal use cannot be morally justified, then we ought to… — GaryLFrancione Copy Share Image
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When marginalized groups finally gained access to the ballot, it took time for them to organize around opposition to the specific forms… — Stacey Abrams Copy Share Image
“The growing number of gated communities in our nation is but one example of the obsession with safety. With guards at the… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
“As I prepared to publish this book, a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia took place. One woman, Heather Heyer, was killed… — Darcy Burke Copy Share Image
I don't understand why black people have been so quiescent, so passive over the hundreds of years of American history. Why hasn't… — John Edgar Wideman Copy Share Image
America is supposed to pride itself on freedom of religion, race, and class. It's something that is carried on from ignorance and… — Myka 9 Copy Share Image
The American Negro must rebuild his past in order to make his future. Though it is orthodox to think of America as… — Arturo Alfonso Schomburg Copy Share Image
It seems to me that obliviousness about white advantage, like obliviousness about male advantage, is kept strongly inculturated in the United States… — Peggy McIntosh Copy Share Image
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People keep telling me about the white race and the black race - and it really doesn't make sense. I played Miami,… — Dick Gregory Copy Share Image
“There could be something wrong with me because I see Negroes neither better nor worse than any other race. Race pride is… — Zora Neale Hurston Copy Share Image
The cornerstones of this country's operation are economic and political strength and power. The black man doesn't have the economic strength -… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Segregations, by which I mean people living in a certain area, was a planned system. It was made that way. And what… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
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