Segregation was a burden for many blacks, because the end of the civil war and the amendments added to the constitution elevated… — Ed Smith Copy Share Image
There's nothing in this country that is a worse accusation - in America, if you accuse somebody of racism, that person has… — Andrew Breitbart Copy Share Image
I won't ever got to a place that's racist, and I will tell everybody else not to and I'll speak against them.… — John Stossel Copy Share Image
I used to say, 'Hey, man, what kind of a stupid question is that?' to a newspaperman asking me heavy things right… — Steve Prefontaine Copy Share Image
You do not preach and encourage hatred for the Negro and hope to restrict it to that field. It is an old,… — Ralph McGill Copy Share Image
And I think, on the other end, there were actors who were not as good as I was, perhaps who could have… — James Earl Jones Copy Share Image
I think it's cultural racism more than anything, which dovetails with actual racism, but the cultural racism to me is even more… — Hilton Als Copy Share Image
People who are overweight face discrimination. African-Americans face discrimination. Women face discrimination and sexism. So I don't have the luxury of not… — Octavia Spencer Copy Share Image
“Today I'm on tell you bout a man from outer space." She just loves hearing about peoples from outer space. Her favorite… — Kathryn Stockett Copy Share Image
We recriminalized black life. Incarceration rates since the 1908s have gone through the roof, overwhelmingly black males, women and Hispanics to some… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“but fear and prejudice were amplified by local politics, and a push-button issue was constructed out of little more than worked-up imaginings… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We think of Shots Fired as almost an autopsy of Ferguson that shows the events from every street in the house. And,… — Gina Prince-Bythewood Copy Share Image
“But it is very, very rare that young white Americans come across someone who tells them in harsh, unforgiving terms that they… — Suzy Hansen Copy Share Image
“I am convinced that imprisonment is a way of pretending to solve the problem of crime. It does nothing for the victims… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
The Malays are spiritually inclined, tolerant, and easy-going. The non-Malays, and especially the Chinese, are materialistic, aggressive, and have an appetite for… — Mahathir Mohamad Copy Share Image
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To exercise ignorance, racist prejudice, a love of power and total disregard for factual accuracy, one has to inhabit a world where… — Masha Gessen Copy Share Image
Being of color in America by no means amounts to a constant barrage of negativity. However, unlike being white, being of color… — John Ridley Copy Share Image
Racial events in our game, which we are trying as hard as we can to eradicate, are always going to happen. You… — Chris Hughton Copy Share Image
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If we want to think about racism and how it might play out in drug policy, we have to think about the… — Carl Hart Copy Share Image
Really, when you get down to racism, in or out of the church, it's a heart issue. It's not a head issue.… — T. D. Jakes Copy Share Image
We understand that, in our communities, black trans folk, gender-nonconforming folk, black queer folk, black women, black disabled folk - we have… — Alicia Garza Copy Share Image
I think if people really read Martin Luther King, Jr., then they would begin to understand what he really represented. The philosophy… — Coretta Scott King Copy Share Image
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Lots of white people think black people are stupid. They are stupid themselves for thinking so, but regulation will not make them… — Stephen L. Carter Copy Share Image
There's always someone who's going to interpret my material as racist, but it's not. Racism comes from intent and power. A racist… — Russell Peters Copy Share Image
It doesn't sound rational for a Klansman to sit down to dinner with a black man. What you're overlooking is, to be… — Daryl Davis Copy Share Image
Blacks, especially in America, have been raised with a slave mentality - they don't feel that they have the right to speak… — Kanye West Copy Share Image
The burden of being black is that you have to be superior just to be equal. But the glory of it is… — Jesse Jackson Copy Share Image
Sometimes our tunnel vision is limited to what we see outside our window. Until racial injustice becomes personal then I don't think… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
And so class will some day supplant race in world affairs. Race war will then be merely a side-show to the gigantic… — Ralph Bunche Copy Share Image
Since the nations founding, African Americans repeatedly have been controlled through institutions such as slavery and Jim Crow, which appear to die… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
There's a bad thing that we have in America, and that is a slow, sticky way that we get out of prejudice.… — Neal Adams Copy Share Image
I never met a white person till I was a grown man. I never went to school with a white till I… — Randall Robinson Copy Share Image
It is notoriously true that the public mind is seriously agitated with apprehensions of negroes insurrections and that it is becoming more… — Thomas L. Smith Copy Share Image
I've certainly experienced racism, but it has not made a great impact on me. I have always thought, as I got older… — Robert Guillaume Copy Share Image
Race is still somewhat of a taboo in comedy. But if you're a minority, then you can make fun of your own… — Emo Philips Copy Share Image
Racism has been in football since football started, it's never going away, it's never got better. It's just noticed more because everything… — Andre Gray Copy Share Image
The only nation I've ever been tempted to feel really racist about are the Swiss - a whole country of phobic hand… — Jonathan Raban Copy Share Image
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