“Vagrancy laws and other laws defining activities such as "mischief" and "insulting gestures" as crimes were enforced vigorously against blacks. The aggressive… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
“It's not 'over-sensitivity' to ask to be treated with the same dignity and respect shown to others.” — DaShanne Stokes Copy Share Image
Part of our identity is the idea that racism is still there and that we are vulnerable to it. So, the question… — Shelby Steele Copy Share Image
“It’s infuriating that yesterday, my father had to pull all my younger cousins into a room and tell them to be more… — Janelle Gray Copy Share Image
“I once listened to a woman describe a group of men marching toward her house with sticks lit afire, screaming things like… — Janelle Gray Copy Share Image
There should be a class on drugs. There should be a class on sex education-a real sex education class-not just pictures and… — Tupac Shakur Copy Share Image
“Racism is a complex and interconnected system that adapts to challenges over time. Colorblind ideology was a very effective adaptation to the… — Robin DiAngelo Copy Share Image
“Pull down your pants! I've heard about nigger-cocks my whole life but never seen one!” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
If we accept and acquiesce in the face of discrimination, we accept the responsibility ourselves. We should, therefore, protest openly everything ...… — Mary McLeod Bethune Copy Share Image
“Privilege is presuming to speak for others you know nothing about.” — DaShanne Stokes Copy Share Image
“This book makes a simple argument: that American criminal justice isn’t one system with massive racial disparities but two distinct regimes. One… — Chris Hayes Copy Share Image
“In those days I imagined racism as a tumor that could be isolated and removed from the body of America, not as… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
“Susan’s and Jennifer’s job searches are likely made harder by the color of their skin. In the early 2000s, researchers in Chicago… — Kathryn Edin Copy Share Image
“I do not believe that Caucasians of the western world are inherently evil. What I do believe is that the powerful subliminal… — James Morris Robinson Copy Share Image
“Racial superiority isn't real. It is delusional fiction created by ignorant people.” — Jonathan Heatt Copy Share Image
“There are very few hardships out there that hit only people of color and not white people, but there are a lot… — Ijeoma Oluo Copy Share Image
“Discrimination is discrimination, even when people claim it's 'tradition.” — DaShanne Stokes Copy Share Image
“...I fell asleep and had a dream that a king was liquidated by a group of kind faces....” — Maquita Donyel Irvin Copy Share Image
“Political correctness’ is a label the privileged often use to distract from their privilege and hate.” — DaShanne Stokes Copy Share Image
“There are turning points in everyone's life when we have to fight, even if we have to do it by ourselves and… — Junius Williams Copy Share Image
“Haiti as an independent republic accepted the invitation extended to her along with other nations, and erected a building on the World's… — Ida B. Wells-Barnett Copy Share Image
“If, as a white person, I conceptualize racism as a binary and I see myself on the "not racist" side, what further… — Robin DiAngelo 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
“Nearly every African who has given the issue thought knows that America is not only not racist, it is the best place… — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
