“Pull down your pants! I've heard about nigger-cocks my whole life but never seen one!” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Bigotry and sexism destroy the unity needed for a nation to live.” — DaShanne Stokes 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
I have nothing to do with racism in America; it was here when I got here. — Paul Mooney Copy Share Image
Telling me that I’m obsessed with talking about racism in America is like telling me I’m obsessed with swimming when I’m drowning. — Hari Kondabolu 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
“Fantasy like thought that no man could rain Just let her reign Run wild with her unafraid Of any rain storms They… — Maquita Donyel Irvin Copy Share Image
“Bigotry hurts the economy, so the next time you want to blame minorities for your problems, first take a look in the… — DaShanne Stokes Copy Share Image
“People from the country ought to be at the forefront of humankind's struggle for kindness and equality, and yet, the situation is… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
We need a real, honest, and national conversation about racism in America, because the status quo is a crisis for too many… — Jamaal Bowman Copy Share Image
“If you believe in a cause, be willing to stand up for that cause with a million people or by yourself.” — Otis S. Johnson 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
“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
“The “Howard” in the entry had to be Howard Phillips Lovecraft , that twentieth-century puritanic Poe from Providence, with his regrettable but… — Fritz Leiber Copy Share Image
“People buy into this false notion of reverse racism, where they believe that just because there’s a group of people getting together… — Simon S. Tam 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
Racism as a form of skin worship, and as a sickness and a pathological anxiety for America, is so great, until the… — Jesse Jackson Copy Share Image
I found there's a fairly blatant racism in America that's already there, and I don't think I noticed it when I lived… — Dave Matthews Copy Share Image
“Assimilation and melting into the American pot has always been easier [for white people]. It's very hard for blackfolk to melt into… — Chuck D Copy Share Image
“White supremacy is the societal excrement that fertilizes racial disparities in America. It distorts the reality of historical and present day factors… — James A. Barlow Copy Share Image
“At the zoo, I stood in front of the primate cage listening to a woman marvel at how “presidential” the four-hundred-pound gorilla… — Paul Beatty 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
“It's not the fact that some people disagree with the protests. That is as much a right as the protests themselves. It… — Carlos Wallace Copy Share Image
“I confront the question of whether DEI initiatives are divisive and ineffective. The answer is yes on both counts, but not for… — Louis Yako Copy Share Image
“Whitepeople believed that whatever the manners, under every dark skin was a jungle. Swift unnavigable waters, swinging screaming baboons, sleeping snakes, red… — Toni Morrison 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
“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
“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
“I passed nearly a year in the family of Isaac and Amy Post, practical believers in the Christian doctrine of human brotherhood.… — Harriet Ann Jacobs Copy Share Image
“Those with unearned privileges often spin things as 'political correctness' to further silence those they wish to oppress.” — DaShanne Stokes Copy Share Image
All of you are aware of the tragic history of racism in America, but for a very long time, African-Americans and their… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
“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
“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 the midst of a national reckoning on race relations in America something extraordinary is happening. We are building a winning edge against… — Germany Kent 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
“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
As a historian of American and African-American religion, I know that the Trayvon Martin moment is just one moment in a history… — Anthea Butler Copy Share Image