The black community has been the foundation of the progressive community in this country for a long time. — Benjamin Todd Jealous Copy Share Image
White guilt and the fear of speaking up concerning issues of race and morality is costing this nation greatly. — Jesse Lee Peterson Copy Share Image
I had to go to England to really learn about American racism in a way that corroborated my reality. That was critical. — Carl Hart Copy Share Image
If I have to jump six feet to get the same thing that you have to jump two feet for - that's… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
I'm not black, but there's a whole lot of times I wish I could say I'm not white. — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
[On the ERA Equality March:] It's the funniest thing. I don't feel there's any discrimination. I know my husband feels that way. — Pat Nixon Copy Share Image
“Privilege is presuming to speak for others you know nothing about.” — DaShanne Stokes Copy Share Image
The yellow Indians do have a meagre talent. The Negroes are far below them, and at the lowest point are a part… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
I mean, we all carry some form of that bias, right? I mean, it might be based on age, it might be… — Maya Wiley Copy Share Image
The death penalty has been one of many examples where racial discrimination has played out. You can see it in the simple… — Pete Buttigieg Copy Share Image
The Belgians tend to downplay the cultural divide issue, and the far-right issue, but there's a staggering degree of casual racism in… — Nicholas Royle Copy Share Image
[Black people] come into the world exactly like you. It's just that there are circumstances in the culture that are dictated and… — Denzel Washington Copy Share Image
For the first time in our history, every spectrum of black thought is in the same room on the same page with… — Louis Farrakhan Copy Share Image
What I ask for the Negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice. ... All I ask is, give… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
Beware prejudices. They are like rats, and men's minds are like traps; prejudices get in easily, but it is doubtful if they… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I mean we just simply can't stand for the systemic racism, social injustice and police brutality against the black community anymore. And… — Erik Spoelstra Copy Share Image
Martin Luther King's 1963 'I have a dream' speech was a thrilling milestone in the civil rights movement, so enduring that we… — Patricia J. Williams Copy Share Image
“Consumptive patients, with lungs incompetent to perform the duties of lungs, people with defective hearts that break down under excitement of the… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
Race is the true protagonist of the American novel. Our most popular classic fictions have known this, from 'Moby Dick' to 'Beloved;'… — Kevin Young Copy Share Image
As a woman of color, I've come to rely on straight white men telling me my experience of the world has nothing… — Sarah Cooper Copy Share Image
That argument doesn’t make any sense to me. So we want to advance as a society and as a culture, but, say,… — Kobe Bryant Copy Share Image
I think back to when I was growing up in Fort Worth, Texas, in the 1950s, during the [John] McCarthy era, with… — Frances Moore Lappé Copy Share Image
Affirmative action is the most important modern anti-discrimination technique ever instituted in the United States. It is the one tool that has… — Eleanor Holmes Norton Copy Share Image
“The poor and people of color are yoked to the abject; white people use its exploration as a path toward self-liberation. It’s… — Anne Helen Petersen Copy Share Image
In the U.S. Senate, I'll fight discrimination everywhere it exists. — Cal Cunningham Copy Share Image
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