“Privilege is when you can afford to sit back and watch as others' rights are trampled upon.” — DaShanne Stokes Copy Share Image
“An institution rooted in slavery cannot be the voice of our people.” — DaShanne Stokes Copy Share Image
“The loudest of doomsayers, so often, carry the weightiest of sin.” — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
Trayvon Martin, at the most, seems only to have been guilty of being himself. — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
“Issues can only be resolved if each person accepts accountability in the problem.” — Carlos Wallace Copy Share Image
“Pride is the problem. Everyone wants to be right so badly they overlook the "rights" of others.” — Carlos Wallace Copy Share Image
“It speaks volumes when people who are discriminated against go on to discriminate against others.” — DaShanne Stokes Copy Share Image
“Standing against discrimination for some while supporting discrimination against others hurts us all.” — DaShanne Stokes Copy Share Image
“When you've grown up mis-educated, surrounded by fear and hate, unaware of your privilege, lies can sound like the truth.” — DaShanne Stokes Copy Share Image
“Making the nation safe for white people could be more easily accomplished with the help of a whitewashed tale of its origins.” — Jabari Asim Copy Share Image
“Acknowledging that all our land was stolen from Native people feels like too great a burden, so we create an alternative reality… — Daniel Hill Copy Share Image
“It is particularly important for white Americans to approach this subject matter with the right goals in mind. Our goal must be… — Daniel Hill Copy Share Image
“Bigots often like to say they're the ones being hurt as they oppress and hurt others. Never fall for the 'pity the… — DaShanne Stokes Copy Share Image
“Why does God ask traumatized people to look at the trauma they initiated through their sin and rebellion? For the same reason… — Daniel Hill Copy Share Image
“That summer, in any case, all the fears with which I had grown up, and which were now a part of me… — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
“While recruiting, Lieutenant Grace was often insulted by such remarks as, "There goes the captain of the Negro Company! He thinks the… — Luis Fenollosa Emilio Copy Share Image
“Tell me the truth of the matter. When I don't understand, I will not protest or judge or correct, I will simply… — Sun Yung Shin Copy Share Image
“Does anyone in this room have it?" "No, Chris, no one here has it." "How do you know?" "Because the mark was… — Chris Crutcher Copy Share Image
“In all his imaginings, he had never envisioned her crying. He knew that her son had died, but he'd never expected that… — Bebe Moore Campbell Copy Share Image
“The instinct to tell our children that they are better than someone else’s children, based on nothing more than the color of… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
“America belongs to all who live here and call her home; of every color and background; that is central to what makes… — Leland Lewis Copy Share Image
“It is not enough for the Negroes to declare that color-prejudice is the sole cause of their social condition, nor for the… — W.E.B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
“South Carolina had thirteen lynchings last year, ten were charged with assault on white women, one with horse stealing and two with… — Ida B. Wells-Barnett Copy Share Image
“And then the foreman told another boss to put me down in the furnace pit. "Nigger can take the heat better," he… — Dick Gregory Copy Share Image
“Because it is psychological. I see the boys in the park, the young boys, smoking and playing basketball when they should be… — Sun Yung Shin Copy Share Image
“We were laughing but I know that we were afraid of those who loved us most. Our parents resorted to the lash… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
“That's what a man is supposed to do for his wife. Listen, if a nigger didn't get lynched every now and then,… — Bebe Moore Campbell Copy Share Image
“Black people are not the descendants of kings. We are—and I say this with big pride—the progeny of slaves. If there’s any… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
“If origin defines race, then we are all Africans – we are all black.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“Political correctness’ is a label the privileged often use to distract from their privilege and hate.” — DaShanne Stokes Copy Share Image
“Centuries-old wounds are still raw because they never healed right in the first place. Here is the essential truth. We are better… — Mitch Landrieu Copy Share Image
“When I got off the train back home, I saw the WHITE and COLORED signs that had been there all along, as… — Dorothy Hampton Marcus Copy Share Image
“all the fears with which I had grown up, and which were now a part of me and controlled my vision of… — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
“I don't know which hurt more: his rejection, his punch, or my own elder siblings laughing at my pain.” — Dorothy Hampton Marcus Copy Share Image
“Call up the ever-pure, the effulgent and the ever-radiant character of true humanism in yourself and in others, and no racism shall… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“If not as a true human, let me tell you as a Biologist, color of the skin does not define an individual’s… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“Discrimination is discrimination, even when people claim it's 'tradition.” — DaShanne Stokes Copy Share Image
