Frederick Douglass ran a primary campaign against [Abraham Lincoln] the second time around, in 1864. They hated him. Why'd they hate him?… — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
A lot of the media says, 'oh, black musician converts X-number of Klansmen.' I never converted one. But over 200 have left… — Daryl Davis Copy Share Image
In some places you can find an extreme blackness used as a descriptive. I also take into account historical realities that some… — Kerry James Marshall Copy Share Image
The black radical agenda, which pushes us closer to freedom and the agenda to which I subscribe, calls for an eradication of… — Patrisse Cullors Copy Share Image
Can we be against anti-Semitism and understand that it's at the root of white supremacy? So you can't tell me to combat… — Linda Sarsour Copy Share Image
“I know that “gentrification” is but a more pleasing name for white supremacy, is the interest on enslavement, the interest on Jim… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
I had developed a specifically calculated plan to break the system of white supremacy. My theory was that since Mississippi was the… — James Meredith Copy Share Image
“White delusion doesn't affect only white people, it also affects colored people, then they start making noises like white people - and… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“The ideology of white supremacy, based on the subjugation of the black man in Rhodesia, denied the black man his full fundamental… — Ndabaningi Sithole Copy Share Image
“The American imagination has never been able to fully recover from its white-supremacist beginnings. Consequently, our laws and attitudes have been straining… — Claudia Rankine Copy Share Image
“You know how the dinosaurs went extinct - they committed suicide when they saw the white man coming. They said to themselves,… — Abhijit Naskar 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
Whiteness itself is artifice, is fiction, is a construction, is narrative, is myth. And I seek to deconstruct all of that, to… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
I am deeply worried about Donald Trump on matters of national security. He doesn't know anything himself about it, and he has… — Tim Kaine Copy Share Image
All talks about legacies of white supremacy must be tied to empowering the lives of poor and working people as a whole.… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
“If we are to be honest with ourselves, we must admit that the "Negro" has been inviting whites, as well as civil… — Frank B. Wilderson III Copy Share Image
When white supremacy becomes institutional, it begins to harm the very people who are not simply outside of it because of their… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
“Their sermons help black folk resist the evil seductions of white supremacy. Very few members go away from such homilies without hope… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
Scapegoating is as American as apple pie. And because there's almost always a racial or ethnic dynamic to it in our country,… — Jonathan Capehart Copy Share Image
“As I listen to their jive, I try to find my way around the street mind, the black man's mind. Feeling left… — Jennifer Lee Copy Share Image
Trump is the worst. I mean, he is like a shape shifter. You can't nail him down. It is like the last… — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
“White supremacy is a crime and a lie, but it's also a machine that generates meaning. This existential gift, as much as… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
You are not born racist. You are born into a racist society. And like anything else, if you can learn it, you… — Jane Elliott Copy Share Image
“Politically progressive black people on the Left who are not nationalist, like myself, share a perspective that promotes the eradication of white… — bell hooks Copy Share Image
For years now, I've been talking about the rise of the extreme right in the U.S. Since 9/11, white nationalists have killed… — Christian Picciolini Copy Share Image
You see, I'm a mighty proud gal and I can't for the life of me, find any valid reason why anyone should… — Fredi Washington Copy Share Image