Once I accuse you of racist, I have demonized you, and it means any future collaboration, cooperation between us is a sign… — Mark Shields Copy Share Image
I'm always annoyed about why black people have to bear the brunt of everybody else's contempt. If we are not totally understanding… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
You have a valid complaint, and I do recognize it ... but you are reading into things a little bit. Just the… — Robert Kirkman Copy Share Image
“he knew in his body, even if he hadn’t yet put it together in his mind, that in America the worst thing… — Yaa Gyasi Copy Share Image
They were both academics, but my dad had to get a job on the railway, and my mum had to get a… — Naveen Andrews Copy Share Image
“It was ridiculous that things outside a person’s control could make others hate you. The nature of your blood wasn’t a choice,… — Melissa Marr Copy Share Image
“It is appropriate that we celebrate Martin Luther King, a man who struggled so valiantly to restore humanity to the oppressed and… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
As a young black American you become desensitised to it, it's just like 'oh, another guy, another kid died today.' That's so,… — DeAndre Yedlin Copy Share Image
“It must be the duty of racial hygiene to be attentive to a more severe elimination of morally inferior human beings than… — Konrad Lorenz Copy Share Image
“When white Americans frankly peel back the layers of our commingled pasts, we are all marked by it. Whether a company or… — Douglas A. Blackmon Copy Share Image
I was asked by an NPR reporter once, why don't I talk about race that often. I said it's because I'm a… — Benjamin Carson Copy Share Image
So much has to do with going beyond treating black people as cosmetic and symbolic items, as opposed to genuine personalities and… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
I just don't think there's that many people who think it's wrong to have control on our borders. That's not racism. It's… — Jeff Sessions Copy Share Image
“Understanding America for the Non-American Black: Thoughts on the Special White Friend One great gift for the Zipped-Up Negro is The White… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
Poor dusky children of slavery, men and women of my own race-the transition from slavery to freedom was too sudden for you!… — Elizabeth Keckley Copy Share Image
The whites have always had the say in America. White people made Jesus white, angels white, the Last Supper white. If I… — Muhammad Ali Copy Share Image
As you grow older, you'll see white men cheat black men every day of your life, but let me tell you something… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
I was discriminated against because I was Jewish, Italian, black and Puerto Rican. But maybe the worst prejudice I experienced was against… — Philip Zimbardo Copy Share Image
Black people are often praised as heroes for saving a country that treats us like third-class citizens, yet when it comes to… — Jason Johnson Copy Share Image
It's important to understand you can't remove the historical context of racially charged stereotypes or slurs as much as we like to… — Franchesca Ramsey Copy Share Image
I think the generosity of President Trump's spirit, recognizing that in the patriot's heart, there's no room for prejudice is part of… — Mike Pence Copy Share Image
I have grown to understand that no matter where we come from, human beings, at heart, are the same. Defining ourselves based… — Shenaz Treasury Copy Share Image
When the Negro cries with pain from his deep hurt and lays his petition for elemental justice before the nation, he is… — Mordecai Wyatt Johnson Copy Share Image
White people get to do that all of the time. They get to engage in bad behavior, even felonious behavior, but they… — Yance Ford Copy Share Image
“…I wondered if there had been a more corroding and devastating attack upon the personalities of men than the idea of racial… — Richard Wright Copy Share Image
Growing up in a predominantly white area of the predominantly white state of Wisconsin, it was, I'm sad to say, relatively easy… — Joe Thomas Copy Share Image
It could never be a correct justification that, because the whites oppressed us yesterday when they had power, that the blacks must… — Robert Mugabe Copy Share Image
While it has become “cool” for white folks to hang out with black people and express pleasure in black culture, most white… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
Racism is not just slavery and Jim Crow. It is the daily violence that is enacted on our communities each and every… — Cori Bush Copy Share Image
I do not share the gloomy thought that Negroes in America are doomed to be stomped out bodaciously, nor even shackled to… — Zora Neale Hurston Copy Share Image
It is extremely important that we send a message out across to everybody that Black lives matter because it is a thing… — Callum Hudson-Odoi Copy Share Image
I've had the privilege of being a part of many different circles that have included some very powerful and influential people of… — Brian Flores Copy Share Image
The vast majority of the race whether savage or civilized, are secretly kind at heart and shrink from inflicting pain, but in… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“I am always and at once on the defensive, for example, when people speak of races and nations as if they were… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
We are here to condemn the Palestinian occupation of the territories, but also to condemn the recent racist attack in France, against… — Jean-Claude Van Damme Copy Share Image
If you are in Holland, be careful not to say tomorrow that you don't like French, German or Swedish food or people,… — Geert Wilders Copy Share Image
I went to jail 44 times. I've been beaten and left for dead on the side of the road fighting for freedom.… — Ralph Abernathy Copy Share Image
As more people of color raise our consciousness and refuse to be pitted against one another, the forces of neo-colonial white supremacist… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
Once you're looking for wisdom, you have to look at why things happen and why people behave how they do: you cannot,… — Genesis P-Orridge Copy Share Image
We live in a racist world. Everywhere there is racism. We say to White people, "You really have to examine how you… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
