I was aware of my race from a very young age. Not in a negative way. Coming from an interracial background, I… — Misty Copeland Copy Share Image
I'm not black, but there's a whole lot of times I wish I could say I'm not white. — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
In the end antiblack, antifemale, and all forms of discrimination are equivalent to the same thing - antihumanism. — Shirley Chisholm Copy Share Image
Racism, colourism, it is massive and I wanted to make sure I addressed colourism as well, so I'm happy I did that. — Leigh-Anne Pinnock Copy Share Image
I bear my burden proudly for all to see, to conquer prejudice and ignorance and hate with knowledge and sincerity and love.… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
I grew up in a modern business environment and did not experience the kind of prejudice that my mother and grandfather experienced. — Lewis Schiff Copy Share Image
In the United States, the Supreme Court's decision of 1954, outlawing segregation in school systems, was greeted with mixed feelings of hope… — John Henrik Clarke Copy Share Image
I would say that to vote for Trump was to at least overlook the fact that we're talking about someone with a… — Jeffrey Goldberg Copy Share Image
With segregation, with the isolation of the injured and the robbed, comes the concentration of disadvantage. An unsegregated America might see poverty,… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
I think that President Donald Trump has clearly not just said racist things, but is a racist. — Ben Ray Lujan Copy Share Image
“Every man, woman, and child is capable of extreme and utter prejudice and cruelty when they feel justified in their hatred.” — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
“Abolish music prejudices. Form opinions and love music for itself, not its genre, performer(s) or popularity status.” — Abigail Biddinger Copy Share Image
If you want to initiate a broader debate about racism, is it really healthy to create an atmosphere in which it is… — Claire Fox Copy Share Image
I look at an ant and l see myself: a native South African, endowed by nature with a strength much greater than… — Miriam Makeba Copy Share Image
Activists who aren't 'straight, white and Christian' have pushed back against bigotry for many generations, and they have secured hard-won advances. — Jonathan Capehart Copy Share Image
Living under the perpetual and pervasive threat of racism seems, for black men and black women, to quite literally reduce lifespans. — Clint Smith Copy Share Image
The biggest thing is we need to stop acting like racism don't exist. — Lil Rel Howery Copy Share Image
“Political correctness’ is a label the privileged often use to distract from their privilege and hate.” — DaShanne Stokes Copy Share Image
I advance it therefore as a suspicion only, that the blacks, whether originally a distinct race, or made distinct by time and… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Precisely because white denial has long trumped claims of racism, people of color tend to underreport their experiences with racial bias rather… — Tim Wise Copy Share Image
“Frankly speaking, for generations of Americans, racist ideas have been their common sense.” — Ibram X. Kendi Copy Share Image
The thing is, getting rid of racism is a cultural thing that takes decades. It's not something we can solve immediately. Structural… — Shervin Pishevar Copy Share Image
Race and class are extremely reliable indicators as to where one might find the good stuff, like parks and trees, and where… — Majora Carter Copy Share Image
The white poor also suffer deprivation and the humiliation of poverty if not of color. They are chained by the weight of… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
At the Oscars, if you didn't vote for '12 Years a Slave,' you were a racist. You have to be very careful… — Gary Oldman Copy Share Image
Western interests: imperialism, colonialism, exploitation, racism, and other negative -isms. — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
“Prejudice, a dirty word, and faith, a clean one, have something in common: they both begin where reason ends.” — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
One would like to say in the aftermath of the 2008 election that everyone lived happily ever after. But the American drama,… — Frank Rich Copy Share Image
Whether it's racism, homophobia, misogyny, transphobia, xenophobia, religious intolerance or other bias - we demand to live in a country where we… — Lucy McBath Copy Share Image
The United States Justice Department, in my opinion, hasn't done a damn thing to alleviate this horrible manifestation of racism, bigotry and… — Harry Lennix Copy Share Image
I believe I have no prejudices whatsoever. All I need to know is that a man is a member of the human… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
You have to be in accountable relationships across race. Accountable means that they're authentic, they're sustained, and that you do talk about… — Robin DiAngelo Copy Share Image
“Racist.The word felt strange in my mouth:powerful,as if now that I could name the thing that was happening to me,it had become… — Maxine Beneba Clark Copy Share Image
“Hominy got out of the car to untangle the snarl. Waving his arms like the crazy man he was, he separated the… — Paul Beatty Copy Share Image
The main thing that I hate the most is ignorance, like the prejudice problems of America. I know it is worse in… — Michael Jackson Copy Share Image
The March on Washington affirmed our values as a people: equality and opportunity for all. Forty-one years ago, during a time of… — Leonard Boswell Copy Share Image
