Racial oppression of black people in America has done what…

I think that sexual oppression and dictatorship go hand in hand.

— Hugh Hefner

By dismantling the narrow politics of racial identity and selective self-interest, by going beyond 'black' and 'white,' we may construct new values, new institutions…

— Manning Marable

There is more racial integration in American life and many more people of color serving as elected officials and corporate leaders than there were…

— Martin Luther King III

“Often black people, especially non-gay folk, become enraged when they hear a white person who is gay suggest homosexuality is synonymous with the suffering…

— bell hooks

“And having a cleaner is nothing to do with feminism. If a middle-class woman is engaging in anti-feminist activity by hiring a woman to…

— Caitlin Moran

I grew up poor and white. While my class oppression has been relatively visible to me, my race privilege has not. In my efforts…

— Robin DiAngelo

Systemically, there hasn't been an oppression more overt and long-lasting than economic oppression against black people and minorities in this country.

— Kerby Jean-Raymond

I didn't run into racism until we moved to Nassau when I was ten and a half, but it was vastly different from the…

— Sidney Poitier

The first class opposition that appears in history coincides with the development of the antagonism between man and woman in monogamous marriage, and the…

— Friedrich Engels

I came in the gate as an African-American poor kid wanting to be a neurosurgeon but - with American life and the places I…

— Lil B

Black racism is a myth created by whites to ease their guilt feelings. As long as whites can be assured that blacks are racists,…

— James H. Cone

We cannot be liberated as women in a society built on class oppression or gender oppression or religious oppression.

— Nawal El Saadawi

After Hitler was destroyed, there was the threat of Stalin, but it was always the world pressure that was upon America that enabled black…

— Malcolm X

“In any case, white people, who had robbed black people of their liberty and who profited by this theft every hour that they lived,…

— James Baldwin

I wanted to write about voodoo tradition that I feel has been very important to survival of black people here: people of the African…

— Jesmyn Ward