“We who are white men can't change who we are. But we could do worse than to follow what I took that… — John Hodgman Copy Share Image
Today's Uncle Tom doesn't wear a handkerchief on his head. This modern, twentieth-century Uncle Thomas now often wears a top hat. He's… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Whether you have a Ph.D., or no D, we're in this bag together. And whether you're from Morehouse or Nohouse, we're still… — Fannie Lou Hamer Copy Share Image
“One realises, with horror, that the race of men is almost extinct in Europe. Only Christ-like heroes and woman-worshipping Don Juans, and… — D.H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
I don't feel that I've been hampered by [ racism or discrimination], and the reason why is that we reach out to… — Keith Ellison Copy Share Image
Normally we divide the external world into that which we consider to be good or valuable, bad or worthless, or neither. Most… — Geshe Kelsang Gyatso Copy Share Image
The evidence of our divided racial self was all over the Obama presidency from the beginning: from the shouts of 'you lie'… — Joy Reid Copy Share Image
“Today, many whites oppose all social reform as "welfare programs for blacks." They ignore the fact that poor whites have employment, education,… — Derrick Bell Copy Share Image
“Borders are the single biggest cause of discrimination in all of world history. Inequality gaps between people living in the same country… — Rutger Bregman Copy Share Image
“In my contact with people I find that, as a rule, it is only the little, narrow people who live for themselves,… — Booker Washington; T. 8vo Copy Share Image
Today, I don't think anyone would think that a mixed-race couple looks odd; I think it's considered perfectly normal. In a very… — Sajid Javid Copy Share Image
I grew up in a very loving middle class family. My parents were educators. I'm not even the first PhD in my… — Condoleezza Rice Copy Share Image
“[I]n so far as postmodern politics involves a '[t]heoretical retreat from the problem of domination within capitalism,' it is here, in this… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
It's important, therefore, to know who the real enemy is, and to know the function, the very serious function of racism, which… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
Today, blacks are no longer the litmus paper or the barometer of social change. Blacks are in every segment of society and… — Bayard Rustin Copy Share Image
“We would like to believe that if the polity understood that race-baiting continues to be widely practiced, people would repudiate it. Yet… — Ian Haney López Copy Share Image
...I cannot help being astonished at the furious and ungoverned execration which all reference to the possibility of a fusion of the… — Fanny Kemble Copy Share Image
“Segregation laws were proposed as part of a deliberate effort to drive a wedge between poor whites and African Americans. These discriminatory… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
If you read some of the recent literature, there is no such thing as whiteness. But we made it up. Not my… — Gregg Popovich Copy Share Image
“Ed Lim’s daughter, Monique, was a junior now, but as she’d grown up, he and his wife had noted with dismay that… — Celeste Ng Copy Share Image
As a white queer person of a certain degree of economic privilege, I think that my ability to pass as straight is… — Ben Hopkins Copy Share Image
“I later heard somewhere, or read, that Malcolm X telephoned an apology to the reporter. But this was the kind of evidence… — Alex Haley Copy Share Image
We [black people] don't respect our elders. Besides artists, we don't respect Frederick Douglass. We don't respect Martin Luther King. You look… — KRS-One Copy Share Image
“Narratives of racial exceptionality obscure the reality of ongoing institutional white control while reinforcing ideologies of individualism and meritocracy. They also do… — Robin DiAngelo Copy Share Image
Facebook captures examples of inequality and makes them available for endless replay. Twitter links the voiceless to newsmakers. Instagram immortalizes the faces… — Stacey Abrams Copy Share Image
There are places and spaces for black writers to write about race as a central thing. It's important. We're still dealing with… — Kwame Alexander Copy Share Image
The welfare state has done to Black Americans what slavery (and Jim Crow and racism) could not have done. . .break up… — John Stossel Copy Share Image
“However, the young person leaving college today, especially if she is a woman, must consider the possibility that her best offerings will… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
Human groupings have one main purpose: to assert everyone’s right to be different, to be special, to think, feel and live in… — Vasily Grossman Copy Share Image
It's not anything that is just perpetuated by White America or just perpetuated by Black America. It's just a cultural understanding that… — Viola Davis Copy Share Image
A lot of people thought oh, we caught the dictionary in racism, or all it takes is a whole bunch of people… — Kory Stamper Copy Share Image
I am arguing that it is a mistake for trans activists to focus our resources and attention on winning inclusion in legal… — Dean Spade Copy Share Image
The Black experience in America now includes everything, all the way up to being the president of the United States.' But there's… — Cord Jefferson Copy Share Image
The civil-rights movement was completely impossible to achieve. But look at what ordinary people were able to do because they were willing… — Marian Wright Edelman Copy Share Image
When generally people make race-based jokes to me - even if they're not technically racist, they're sort of based on me being… — Kumail Nanjiani Copy Share Image
“The real reason that nonviolence is considered to be a virtue in Negroes— I am not speaking now of its racial value,… — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
To exclude groups of people because of their faith, this isn't worthy of the free state in which we live. It isn't… — Angela Merkel Copy Share Image
“Poor health was not just the result of random acts, bad luck, bad behavior or unfortunate genetics. Deliberate public policy decision about… — David A. Ansell Copy Share Image
Strange, is it not, my brothers, how often in America those great watchwords of human energy - 'Be strong!' 'Know thyself!' 'Hitch… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
“All right, Schwartz, tackle my mind now. Go as deep as you want. I was born on Baronn in the Sirius Sector.… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
![“I don't feel that I've been hampered by [ racism or discrimination], and the reason why is that we reach out to people on the basis of where everyone meets, and try to build common cause on that basis. Because of that, I think we've cut through some of the issues that normally divide people.” quote by Keith Ellison](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/575/keith-ellison-4072_bases_i-don-t-feel-that-i-ve-been-hampered-by_521425.png)
![“[I]n so far as postmodern politics involves a '[t]heoretical retreat from the problem of domination within capitalism,' it is here, in this silent suspension of class analysis, that we are dealing with an exemplary case of the mechanism of ideological displacement: when class antagonism is…” quote by Slavoj Žižek](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/7db/slavoj-i-ek-1738_class-struggle_i-n-so-far-as-postmodern-politics-involv_681664.png)
![“We [black people] don't respect our elders. Besides artists, we don't respect Frederick Douglass. We don't respect Martin Luther King. You look at every Martin Luther King Boulevard out here, and it's a crack block. That's not because of white people. That's because of black leadership. We just…” quote by KRS-One](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/92d/krs-one-2404_art_we-black-people-don-t-respect-our-elders_1985041.png)
