The worst thing about that kind of prejudice... is that while you feel hurt and angry and all the rest of it,… — Nina Simone Copy Share Image
In this perilous world, if a black boy wanted to live a halfway normal life and die a natural death he had… — Benjamin E. Mays Copy Share Image
you have to realize the white-supremacy boys are spoiled children. 'I want my way,' they scream, and like all spoiled children, they… — Margaret Halsey Copy Share Image
When I was a kid, my parents never let me use race as an excuse. They'd say, 'When you walk into a… — Will Packer Copy Share Image
It demands great spiritual resilience not to hate the hater whose foot is on your neck, and an even greater miracle of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If somebody comes up and they're African American as Mike is, and they're extremely talented as Mike is, they say, "Oh, yeah,… — Michael B. Jordan Copy Share Image
I have no interest in gender or race or anything like that. But everyone else is kind of, with their calculating -… — Jerry Seinfeld Copy Share Image
We had to learn that we're beautiful. We had to relearn something forcefully taken from us. We had to learn about Black… — Assata Shakur Copy Share Image
Race is a lie built on a lie. The first lie is that people are different, somehow skin color or hair texture… — Benjamin Jealous Copy Share Image
The essential relationship across American history between black people and white people is one of exploitation and one of plunder. This is… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
In this cultural moment, many of us are feeling inadequate to solve societal problems - fascism, racism, misogyny, homophobia, anti-Semitism, the list… — Sabina Murray Copy Share Image
Most poor people in America are white. The family breakdown issue is an issue that crosses all sorts of racial lines. High… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
Crisis' seems to be too mild a word to describe conditions in countless African-American communities. It is beyond crisis when in the… — Johnnetta B. Cole Copy Share Image
Sometimes we say we want an end to hate or racism or sexism. But we all participate in keeping these structures alive.… — Chris Abani Copy Share Image
What surprises me is-even though discrimination against women and racial discrimination still exist, they have improved a lot, especially among artists. And… — Yoko Ono Copy Share Image
“Many people have asked me recently what I make of all the workplaces who were so quick to roll back on their… — Louis Yako Copy Share Image
“We white folks cling to such an abiding sense of entitlement that when things go amiss, we cannot let go of this… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
Legacies, athletes, and favored racial minorities all receive preferential treatment from admissions committees to the exclusion of academically better-qualified students. — Michael J. Knowles Copy Share Image
Racism has been for everyone like a horrible, tragic car crash, and we've all been heavily sedated from it. If we don't… — Anna Deavere Smith Copy Share Image
The problem that we face as civil rights lawyers and advocates is that its extremely difficult to prove race discrimination because the… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
... social evils are dangerously contagious. The fixed policy of persecution and injustice against a class of women who are weak and… — Fannie Barrier Williams Copy Share Image
All peoples are struggling to blast a way through the industrial monopoly of races and nations, but the Negro as a whole… — Marcus Garvey Copy Share Image
I think the legacy of the civil rights movement is that now whites are more open to being represented by people of… — Carol Moseley Braun Copy Share Image
Using the power you derive from the discovery of the truth about racism in South Africa, you will help us to remake… — Oliver Tambo Copy Share Image
Blacks concede that hurrawing, jibing, jiving, signifying, disrespecting, cursing, even outright insults might be acceptable under particular conditions, but aspersions cast against… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Jewish people have put the interests of race over the interests of the American people… Jews are filled with more hatred and… — David Duke Copy Share Image
I had a lot of racism growing up where I grew up. Bullied at school. It definitely encouraged me. It's like battle… — Lewis Hamilton Copy Share Image
When I go back home now, when I go back to Nigeria now, I get off the plane in Lagos and I… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
It is imperative that young white men and women study the black American history. It is imperative that blacks and whites study… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
We've said from the very beginning Black Lives Matter is a network and also, as a broad set of individuals, is an… — Alicia Garza Copy Share Image
When I think of the standing, the importance and the erudition of all these people who see nothing about racism in Heart… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
I think Black Lives Matter is a necessary, modern group of activism and should be applauded. I encourage them to continue in… — Ron Stallworth Copy Share Image
Civil Rights opened the windows. When you open the windows, it does not mean that everybody will get through. We must create… — Mary Frances Berry Copy Share Image
America is dealing with the effects of an underreaction to Donald Trump when he was running and when he was Mr. Saying-Racist-Things-on-the-News. — Trevor Noah Copy Share Image
I will say, in open adoption, all these choices you make about race, about the amount of mental illness you can deal… — Jennifer Gilmore Copy Share Image
A lot of times, we talk about black people as if being black is all they are. They get up, go to… — Margot Lee Shetterly Copy Share Image
If white people are constantly told how culturally different their Asian neighbors are, and if Asians are told to be vigilant against… — Munira Mirza Copy Share Image
Racists have often used pseudoscience to justify their socially damaging views; watch these films to see how science, by replacing ignorance with… — James D. Watson Copy Share Image
On the contrary, if they are treated with justice and humanity, proper example and the advantages of education given them, the coming… — Nelson A. Miles Copy Share Image
It was extremely dangerous to be a black man in the KKK. If I'd been exposed, it could have all gone horribly… — Ron Stallworth Copy Share Image
