“An institution rooted in slavery cannot be the voice of our people.” — DaShanne Stokes Copy Share Image
“Privilege is presuming to speak for others you know nothing about.” — DaShanne Stokes Copy Share Image
“Pride is the problem. Everyone wants to be right so badly they overlook the "rights" of others.” — Carlos Wallace Copy Share Image
“Those who benefit from unearned privilege are too often quick to discount those who don't.” — DaShanne Stokes Copy Share Image
“Discrimination is discrimination, even when people claim it's 'tradition.” — DaShanne Stokes Copy Share Image
By the 1960s, many of us believed that the Civil Rights Movement could eliminate racism in America during our lifetime. But despite… — Bill Cosby Copy Share Image
“Y'all taught me that unacknowledged scars accumulated in battles won often hurt more than battles lost.” — Kiese Laymon 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
“The media constantly reinforces the message that what is demanded of us is unwavering strength, poise and diplomacy even in the face… — The Washington Post Shanon Lee Copy Share Image
Racism in America absolutely exists - it is an issue. We need to fix it. We're a great country - probably the… — Spike Lee 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
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
“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
“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
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
“This is just a nigger talkin', an' a busted-back nigger. So it don't mean nothing, see? You couldn't remember it anyways. I… — John Steinbeck 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
“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
“Several years after, he passed through our town and preached to his former congregation. In his afternoon sermon he addressed the colored… — Harriet Ann Jacobs 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
“Racism is both overt and covert. It takes two, closely related forms: individual whites acting against individual blacks, and acts by the… — Stokely Carmichael Copy Share Image
“NO DIVINE BOVINE ! The clumsy creature currently inhabiting the White House is a distinctly dangerous animal. Part boneheaded raging bully, part… — Alex Morritt Copy Share Image
“Okay, first of all, they don't "consider" Jefferson Davis racist, he was President of the Confederacy, his racism is not up for… — T.J. Kirk 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
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
For many years, I believed racism in America was dead and that opportunity existed for all. My beliefs were shaken when the… — John Hope Bryant Copy Share Image
The words 'bad timing' came to be ghosts haunting our every move in Birmingham. Yet people who used this argument were ignorant… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
“Many fundamentalist Christian Evangelicals are racist because religion and racism are two sides of the same coin. Both are nothing more than… — Oliver Markus Malloy Copy Share Image
“The enemy was not the Klan but the inside-outside lock that racism and classism had on the minds of the people: It… — Junius Williams Copy Share Image
“It was a grand opportunity for the low whites, who had no negroes of their own to scourge. They exulted in such… — Harriet Ann Jacobs Copy Share Image
“It has taken me many years of intensive study and practice to be able to recognize and articulate how I am shaped… — Robin DiAngelo 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
“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
![“Assimilation and melting into the American pot has always been easier [for white people]. It's very hard for blackfolk to melt into the pot. When we melt into the pot we usually become charred crust at the bottom. We have to be able to persevere by different tactics and methods.” quote by Chuck D](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/014/chuck-d-2065_1990_assimilation-and-melting-into-the-americ_743501.png)
