The opposition to Negro education in the South was at…

“The South believed an educated Negro to be a dangerous Negro. And the South was not wholly wrong; for education among all kinds of…

— W.E.B. Du Bois

“was at first bitter, and showed itself in ashes, insult, and blood; for the South believed an educated Negro to be a dangerous Negro.…

— W.E.B. Du Bois

Once the white man let the Negro get an education, the Negro began to want what the white man has. But he let Negroes…

— Malcolm X

Really, the values under which my generation was raised in the '50s were immigrant values even though we weren't immigrants. The greatest thing you…

— Henry Louis Gates

Caught in a racial uproar, people make all sorts of promises to make amends. Whatever they do tends to be heavy on symbolism and…

— Jonathan Capehart

This is, for an accomplished Latino, an accomplished African American, an accomplished anyone who disproves stereotypes, it's a constant battle in your life.

— Sonia Sotomayor

Well, I've been politically involved for a really long time. Growing up in the segregated South, it was a very painful experience for me…

— Cybill Shepherd

The color of somebody's skin or the way he wears his hair or clothes has nothing to do with anything.

— Anonymous

Racism is a cancer. You cannot ignore it and it'll go away. If you ignore cancer, it simply metastasizes and consumes the whole body.

— Daryl Davis

We have to build our own power. We have to win every single political office we can, where we have a majority of black…

— Fannie Lou Hamer

“When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but with creatures bristling with prejudice and motivated by pride and…

— Dale Carnegie

If my child had prejudice in his head, I'd be ashamed. I would see it as my failure as a parent.

— Salman Rushdie

If I had to guess and put a name on it, I'd say that at some point, the drug war was as much a…

— David Simon

The image of blacks usually is one of people who are suffering from hunger, unemployment, and poverty. The idea of them as agents and…

— Grace Lee Boggs

Race is the idea that a human being is more superior than another human being, race in society grants illusional rights to mistreat each…

— Jeremy Limn