I was raised to believe that excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism. And that's how I operate my life. — Oprah Winfrey Copy Share Image
War, hatred, and violence all spring from one infernal idea: that one person, race, creed, or culture is better than another. — Laurence Overmire Copy Share Image
I think it's perfectly just to refuse service to anyone based on behavior, but not based on race or religion. — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
To be white in America is to assume, with total self-confidence and little afterthought, the personal ownership of public spaces. — Joy Reid Copy Share Image
Black people cannot and will not become integrated into American society on any terms but those of self-determination and autonomy. — Gerda Lerner Copy Share Image
At this moment, then, the Negroes must begin to do the very thing which they have been taught that they cannot do. — Carter G. Woodson Copy Share Image
I have no prejudice against the gays, but I wouldn't train with someone who's gay. — Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira Copy Share Image
Critical race theory is racist. It does nothing to bring us together. — Marjorie Taylor Greene Copy Share Image
“Finally, don’t put on a Let’s Be Fair tone and say “But black people are racist too.” Because of course we’re all… — Chimanada Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
A lot of people think that intersectionality is only about identity. But it's also about how race and gender are structured in… — Kimberle Williams Crenshaw Copy Share Image
I was born black, I attended all Negro schools including college, I grew up in the segregated South during Jim Crow. If… — Ezola B. Foster Copy Share Image
The white man will keep on granting tokenism; a few big Negroes will get big jobs, but the black masses will catch… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
I grew up in a strongly socialist family. While I was at school, I worked in party politics and with organizations like… — Saffron Burrows Copy Share Image
There's no such thing as a race and barely such a thing as an ethnic group. If we were dogs, we'd be… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
When you grow up in a totally segregated society, where everybody around you believes that segregation is proper, you have a hard… — Shelby Foote Copy Share Image
I always tell young people in particular: Do not say that nothing's changed when it comes to race in America, unless you… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“Mislike me not for my complexion, The shadowed livery of the burnished sun, To whom I am a neighbor and near bred.… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Whether we're talking about what the role of the government is, what you think of the United Nations, political leaders or how… — Michael C Dawson Copy Share Image
Much of what I do now stems from my rage at segregation and discrimination. I can't stand to see children not able… — Marian Wright Edelman Copy Share Image
If one thinks about racism by examining only one wire of the cage, or one form of disadvantage, it is difficult to… — Iris Marion Young Copy Share Image
There is power in naming racism for what it is, in shining a bright light on it, brighter than any torch or… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
The core of racism is the notion that the individual is meaningless and that membership in the collective - the race -… — Peter Schwartz Copy Share Image
The first thing we should be concerned about the BLM movement should be the issues that the Black Lives Matter movement is… — Cory Booker Copy Share Image
“In order to make this point, we need to talk about race openly and honestly. We must stop debating crime policy as… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
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