Speaking as a mixed-race woman, there aren't many historical stories about people like me. — Gugu Mbatha-Raw Copy Share Image
I never commit hate crimes because I'm against discrimination and assaulting random strangers is much more fun. — Nikhil Saluja Copy Share Image
Racism is a system of power and in the absence of power you cannot be considered a racist. — Sister Souljah Copy Share Image
Racism cannot be cured solely by attacking some of the results it produces, like discrimination in housing or in education. — Sargent Shriver Copy Share Image
I just think Rosa Parks was overrated. Last time I checked, she got famous for breaking the law. — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
I knew that discrimination existed, even though there were many individuals who were not prejudiced. — Joseph Stiglitz Copy Share Image
There's just been so much, you know, blatant lies about me, specifically when it comes to questions of Nazism and racism. — Madison Cawthorn Copy Share Image
Changing the dialogue and behaviors around race and equality in sports starts with removing barriers and creating opportunities. — Katrina Adams Copy Share Image
The cause of freedom is not the cause of a race or a sect, a party or a class-it is the cause… — Anna Julia Cooper Copy Share Image
“Whenever a Black person or group used White people as a standard of measurement, and cast another Black person or group as… — Ibram X. Kendi Copy Share Image
“I think of the added pressures that black men have when making love because they feel that they are expected to perform… — Jennifer Lee Copy Share Image
“Since the white man's personality is greatly distorted by segregation, and his soul is greatly scarred, he needs the love of the… — Martin Luther King Jr Copy Share Image
I am fifty-two years of age. I am a bishop in the Anglican Church, and a few people might be constrained to… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
People must be protected from prejudice against their person. But people cannot be protected from prejudice against their ideas - because otherwise… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Legal doctrine requiring a showing of evidence of racist intent and a narrow chain of causation has made it very difficult to… — Dean Spade Copy Share Image
When feminism does not explicitly oppose racism, and when anti-racism does not incorporate opposition to patriarchy, race and gender politics often end… — Kimberle Williams Crenshaw Copy Share Image
We tend to think of racism as this interpersonal verbal or physical abuse, when in truth, that is only one way that… — Clint Smith Copy Share Image
Today, we are the nation we are because of icons who refused to cower in the eye of signs that read 'whites… — Byron Donalds Copy Share Image
“If I knew anything about being black in America it was that nothing was guaranteed, you couldn't count on a thing, and… — Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah Copy Share Image
“...we have to be aware of the power and importance of organizing not just around identity, but the materiality of daily life,… — Manning Marable Copy Share Image
“Racial stereotyping. For Martin Luther King, Jr., and other civil rights leaders, the sin of white racism was stereotyping all black people… — Kim R. Holmes Copy Share Image
“The insistence is on merit, insinuating that any current majority white leadership in any industry has got there through hard work and… — Reni Eddo-Lodge Copy Share Image
When I go to a great movie, I can live somebody else's life a little bit for a while. I can walk… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
In the event of a violent revolution, we would be sorely outnumbered. And when it was all over, the Negro would face… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image