A white woman has only one handicap to overcome - that of sex. I have two - both sex and race. ...… — Mary Church Terrell Copy Share Image
The Jews cannot be classed as a 'race' per se, they are an ethnic group. '...the Jews form an ethnic group; that… — Carleton S. Coon Copy Share Image
There is bias and sexism everywhere, just like there are problems of racism and homophobia stemming from the whole notion that we're… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Our country comes from a centuries-long culture of dehumanizing black and brown bodies. So what role does racism play? A huge role.… — Maya Moore Copy Share Image
I mean, we all carry some form of that bias, right? I mean, it might be based on age, it might be… — Maya Wiley Copy Share Image
“The civil rights generation is exiting the American stage—not in a haze of nostalgia but in a cloud of gloom, troubled by… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
Linguistic danger to spiritual freedom.- Every word is a prejudice. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
When young black men reach a certain age - whether or not there is incarceration in their families - they themselves are… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
“There are fundamentally two ways you can experience the police in America: as the people you call when there's a problem, the… — Chris L. Hayes Copy Share Image
'Separate but unequal' didn't work in respect to race, it doesn't work in respect to gender, and it especially doesn't work when… — Kimberle Williams Crenshaw Copy Share Image
The human race is not very admirable. It was a big mistake of God’s, — Taylor Caldwell Copy Share Image
It is long past time to eliminate bigotry in the workplace and to ensure equal opportunity for all Americans. It is time… — Tom Harkin Copy Share Image
I mean, let's face it, it's 2000 and people are beginning to wake up on some level. I think that, as I… — Gale Harold Copy Share Image
Practically anything you read or hear about racism, sexism, and homophobia is cant. — John Derbyshire Copy Share Image
“It has to do with conquest, with oppression. If you’re robbing somebody, oppressing them, dictating their lives, it’s a very rare person… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
If I'm making fun of race or making fun of the differences of us, it's just because it's a reality of the… — Andrew Santino Copy Share Image
People say that being a vegan creates a social problem in that others may react negatively. But isnt that the case if… — Gary L. Francione Copy Share Image
Ultimately we're all moving towards a time when the races will be more and more mixed and we will all be brown… — Rick Famuyiwa Copy Share Image
When growing up, I saw segregation. I saw racial discrimination. I saw those signs that said white men, colored men. White women,… — John Lewis Copy Share Image
White individuals that have been going to jail. Segregation still exists; discrimination still exists. A few isolated white people whose individual acts… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
As a woman people judge you on your looks regardless of the fact you're just there to race. — Susie Wolff Copy Share Image
I remember what it was like to grow up in the South in the 1960s and 1970s. Discrimination isn’t something that’s easy… — Tim Cook Copy Share Image
...racist thought and action says far more about the person they come from than the person they are directed at. — Chris Crutcher Copy Share Image
It's time we become comfortable with the uncomfortable conversations about race...Instead of being color blind, we need to be color brave. — Mellody Hobson Copy Share Image
“The prevailing discriminatory practices during the sixties, whose targets were working people, women, and people of color, were atrocious. Thus, an enforceable… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
“The well-meaning white people, I said, had to combat, actively and directly, the racism in other white people. And” — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Struggle and survival, losing and winning, doesn't matter. It's entering the race that counts. You enter, you can win, you can lose… — Pam Grier Copy Share Image
“He was there below me, and, upon my word, to look at him was as edifying as seeing a dog in a… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
Priscilla and I, and nine others, had been charged with 'disturbing the peace,' among other charges, because we tried to order food… — Patricia Stephens Due Copy Share Image
In overcoming prejudice, working together is even more effective than talking together. — Ralph Washington Sockman Copy Share Image
I do not think I have any uncharitable prejudice against the rattlesnake, still, I should not like to be one. — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
I think people are just going to be people, and racism is a thing. If people have an inclination to be racist… — Brandi Rhodes Copy Share Image
In my school, racism was ubiquitous and unrelenting, and not just from the pupils. For a year I was terrorised by one… — David Olusoga Copy Share Image
If the Negroes are to remain forever removed from the producing atmosphere, and the present discrimination continues, there will be nothing left… — Carter G. Woodson Copy Share Image
