Acknowledging the realities of structural and institutional racism is hard for conscionable white people. It might ask them to consider how they're… — Emily Raboteau Copy Share Image
“It would be easy to quit if it was just about me, Khalil, that night, and that cop. It's about way more… — Angie Thomas Copy Share Image
For most Black people there is still poverty and desperation. The Ghettos still exist, and the proportion of Blacks in prison is… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
“The women work because the white folks give them jobs—washing dishes and clothes and floors and windows. The women work because for… — Ann Petry Copy Share Image
“Even when the 13th Amendment was passed to abolish slavery with an exception of servitude as a penalty for criminal conviction, the… — Dumisani Tafadzwa Mayele Copy Share Image
Country must confront what he called institutional racism. [We should] create a country which provides economic, social and environmental justice for all. — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
We cannot reform institutional racism or systemic policies if we are not actively engaged. It's not enough to simply complain about injustice;… — Al Sharpton Copy Share Image
What I've always said is that I'm opposed to institutional racism, and I would've, had I've been alive at the time, I… — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
You should be able to criticize civil servants for what you think is wrongdoing without being painted as a cop-hater. I don't… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
“The system's acts are covert, just as the racist ideas of the people are implicit. I could not wrap my head around… — Ibram X. Kendi Copy Share Image
“I believe that there are four institutions in American history that have shaped our approach to race and justice but remain poorly… — Bryan Stevenson Copy Share Image
“I asked [my grandfather] if there would ever be an America in which white Americans were not actively working to keep themselves… — Clint Smith Copy Share Image
“Streets like the one she lived on were no accident. They were the North’s lynch mobs, she thought bitterly; the method the… — Ann Petry Copy Share Image
My background is: I'm a Black man in America, victim of police brutality, victim of institutional racism, working-class from working-class roots. — Jamaal Bowman Copy Share Image
Indians in America are yet to be considered human beings, even though the Pope issued a papal bull in 1898 that declared… — Russell Means Copy Share Image
“What is lack of prevention but denial that there is anything to be prevented?” — Louise F. Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
It is this third consequence that has been elaborated in greatest detail and has formed one of the most significant pillars of… — Immanuel Wallerstein Copy Share Image
In America there is institutional racism that we all inherit and participate in, like breathing the air in this room - and… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
When one in three Black men are in prison, those larger systemic injustices become a part of what it means to love… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
“I thought I had it all figured out. I thought of racism as an inanimate, immortal system, not as a living, recognizable,… — Ibram X. Kendi Copy Share Image
“Our world is suffering from metastatic cancer. Stage 4. Racism has spread to nearly every part of the body politic, intersecting with… — Ibram X. Kendi Copy Share Image
“[...] white supremacy and coloniality still form the glue for the institutional and intellectual disciplinarity of western critical thought. Since the ideas… — Alexander G. Weheliye Copy Share Image
I talk about the politics of love over the politics of fear... Fear is rooted in institutional racism. It's this fear of… — Jamaal Bowman 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