“At times we are the worst racist enemies of our black selves.” — Gloria D. Gonsalves Copy Share Image
Black people in America have to, for their own protection, develop a defense mechanism, and I just grew terribly tired of it. — Randall Robinson Copy Share Image
Prejudice is a house-plant which is very apt to wilt if you take it out-of-doors among folks. — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
I don't think any of us that are white can ever fully understand what it's like to be a black person in… — Paula White Copy Share Image
I do believe 100 percent that Black lives matter and that the cause to achieve and pursue equality supersedes basketball. — Doris Burke Copy Share Image
“exacerbated eagerness to exploit the ignorance and prejudice of voters.” — Jean Tirole Copy Share Image
We want to see a world where black lives matter in order for us to get to a world where all of… — Alicia Garza Copy Share Image
“The college allows students of different races to date now, but the place is permeated with an air of cheerful fascism.” — Aaron Hartzler Copy Share Image
The laws in this city are clearly racist. All laws are racist. The law of gravity is racist. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As a parent, you want to protect your children, but the fact of racism in this country, of inequality, that is still… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
The greatest difference between now and 1964, when I began teaching, is that public policy has pretty much eradicated the dream of… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
Your race, creed, and sex are what you are, while homosexuality and cross-dressing are things you do. This is a free country,… — Mike Johnson Copy Share Image
I think race is very important. I think generally speaking, we've to face the general problem, which is that we are seeing… — James Heckman Copy Share Image
America was built on segregation. It's gonna stay segregated until everyone's equal, and that ain't gonna happen when it's a capitalistic society. — MC Ren Copy Share Image
Sexism and racism and homophobia and classism are so naturalized. All these stereotypes make people think it's just normal that straight white… — Kathleen Hanna Copy Share Image
A descendant of enslaved people, George Floyd was born with generational trauma in his DNA and denied the generational wealth that belonged… — Cori Bush Copy Share Image
I've been fortunate not to have been pigeonholed by virtue of being mixed-race, of being English and black, and by virtue of… — Thandie Newton Copy Share Image
I try to look at it like an angry optimist. In other words, I'm not happy with the state of affairs that… — Hasan Minhaj Copy Share Image
“Representations of pre-Color humans stand beside casualty statistics. One hundred and ten million died for Gold to rule. Then their bombers dropped… — Pierce Brown Copy Share Image
When love of one's people becomes an absolute, it turns into racism. When love of equality turns into a supreme thing, it… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
“Whiteness is not a culture. There is Irish culture and Italian culture and American culture - the latter, as Albert Murray pointed… — Noel Ignatiev Copy Share Image
“Initially, the purveyors of racism need no more than the silent acquiescence of the public ... [I]t is never too soon to… — Hans J. Massaquoi Copy Share Image
“I have a dream that one day the state of Alabama, whose governor’s lips are presently dripping with the words of interposition… — Martin Luther King Jr Copy Share Image
“If we make a list of those aspects in which we are tied to iniquity as nations with their own culture, this… — Ana Mendez Ferrell Copy Share Image
“The precise ancestry of a black drug dealer or cop killer is irrelevant. His blackness predicts and explains his crime. He reinforces… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
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