I became aware of how the world is and how the white establishment plays black people against each other. — Claudette Colvin Copy Share Image
“Understanding whiteness, regardless of class, is key to understanding racism.” — Debby Irving Copy Share Image
“When we come to see ourselves as "RACE." We act like a "RACE" and if not liberated, we perhaps, die like one.” — Henry Johnson Jr Copy Share Image
“In the unification of two minds, orientation of sexuality is irrelevant.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“Opinions founded on prejudice are always sustained with the greatest violence. —Jeffrey Arduan” — Steve White Copy Share Image
“As much as they loved Negroes, Neroes didn't seem to love Michael and Anne.” — Langston Hughes Copy Share Image
To break down prejudice is to get to a place of understanding, that can erode the ignorance. — David Oyelowo Copy Share Image
For all of the continued awareness of systemic violence and oppression, there isn't a lot of talk about that psychological toll of… — Tavi Gevinson Copy Share Image
When you play sports, when you're on a team with people from different walks of life, and you have to look after… — Ed Reed Copy Share Image
“Seek not equality with either white or any other nation open your eyes and see behind their pretended pleasure and power is… — Sun Ra Copy Share Image
I went to Macalester in Minnesota to study social psychology, the study of why people do what they do. I was really… — Danai Gurira Copy Share Image
Racism is a disease in society. We're all equal. I don't care what their colour is, or religion. Just as long as… — Mandawuy Yunupingu Copy Share Image
The clock has been turned back on racial progress in America, though scarcely anyone seems to notice. All eyes are fixed on… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
The tendency to conformity in our society is so strong that reasonably intelligent and well-meaning young people are willing to call white… — Solomon Asch Copy Share Image
One of the hallmarks of the American justice system is that it should be blind to individuals' idiosyncratic descriptors, including biological sex,… — Gad Saad Copy Share Image
I suppose our lives need to be more integrated. We have white communities and black communities and white country clubs and black… — Diahann Carroll Copy Share Image
“To great effect, Reagan echoed white frustration in race-neutral terms through implicit racial appeals. His 'color-blind' rhetoric on crime, welfare, taxes, and… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
“The average Negro is born into want and deprivation. His struggle to escape his circumstances is hindered by color discrimination. He is… — Martin Luther King Jr Copy Share Image
I was born in the late '70s and grew up in the deep South, and I was very much still of an… — Nate Powell Copy Share Image
“Too few of us from the Black Power generation and the movements to take power in cities through the election of black… — Junius Williams Copy Share Image
“Images of African Americans as bad mothers, ineffective mothers, and matriarchs...conceal and justify the difficult conditions in which they work and raise… — Leith Mullings Copy Share Image
God did not create the strife between races, nor did He intend for it to be that way. Strife between races and… — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
“We would often lead workshops in offices that were 95-100% white, and yet the participants would bitterly complain about Affirmative Action. This… — Robin DiAngelo Copy Share Image
Racial prejudice boils down to the deeply anti-American message that some people are born to fail. — James Fallows Copy Share Image
Racism is old, but Peele found a poetic new way of talking about it. He gave us language we didn't know we… — Wesley Morris Copy Share Image
From the beginning, it has been a no-no for a black man to touch a white woman. — Nina Simone Copy Share Image
“WE MUST WORK HARDER TO MAKE PEOPLE AWARE THAT RACIAL BIAS AND GENDER BIAS CANNOT BE SEPARATED. THEY WORK TOGETHER.” — The Women's March Organizers Copy Share Image
The bigotry of the nonbeliever is for me nearly as funny as the bigotry of the believer. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
It was obvious that bigotry was never a one-way operation, that hatred bred hatred! — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
I've always been quite scared about talking about race. You don't wanna rock the boat because you want to keep working. — Wunmi Mosaku Copy Share Image
I feel that segregation is totally unchristian, and that it is against everything the Christian religion stands for. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Your race and gender don't change, but you can choose to change your political affiliation at will. — John Podhoretz Copy Share Image
If I can use my platform to affect change in gender, as I can in race, then I think I can have… — Nate Parker Copy Share Image
Getting out of jury duty is easy. The trick is to say you're prejudiced against all races. — Dan Castellaneta Copy Share Image
“Skin Colors Were Created For Identification, Not For Discrimination...” — Pedro Acevedo 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
I don't know what people mean when they ask me whether I'm embracing my whiteness. Whiteness is ubiquitous. — Melissa Harris-Perry Copy Share Image
If someone believes they are limited by their gender, race or background, they will become more limited. — Carly Fiorina Copy Share Image
This is one race of people for whom psychoanalysis is of no use whatsoever. — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image