I set out as a sort of self-dependent politician. My opinions were my own. I dashed at all prejudices. I scorned to… — William Cobbett Copy Share Image
It may be shocking to some people in this country to realize that, without meaning to do so, they hold views in… — Henry A. Wallace Copy Share Image
When we look at a conflict, it is so often rooted in injustice, prejudice, competition for resources, poverty, poor governance and corruption. — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
Until the killing of black men, black mothers' sons, becomes as important to the rest of the country as the killing of… — Ella Baker Copy Share Image
“That’s why I’m done being quiet and submissive. If you allow yourself to be constrained by social norms, you’re never going to… — Tobias Wade Copy Share Image
The work of anti-racism can only take place inside each individual soul, where we all try to grow into better people. There… — Joy Reid Copy Share Image
Half a century ago, the amazing courage of Rosa Parks, the visionary leadership of Martin Luther King, and the inspirational actions of… — David Cameron Copy Share Image
Not unlike gender reassignment surgery, someone determines that they are of a different race on the inside and they wish to surgically… — Jess Row Copy Share Image
I went back to a small town in Poland where my dad grew up. It was a very traumatic experience for me… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
... many of the things which we deplore, the prevalence of tuberculosis, the mounting record of crime in certain sections of the… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“The theory of the ally in this sense examines and expands upon issues relating to the role of men with respect to… — xBorder Collective Copy Share Image
...Negroes must concern themselves with every single means of struggle: legal, illegal, passive, active, violent and non- violent… They must harass, debate,… — Lorraine Hansberry Copy Share Image
Even if, personally, I'm in a place of contentment or solidity, I feel like it's hard not to look out into American… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
“Iwent to school with African-American girls during my entire adolescence in Michigan and never noticed them as potential girlfriends, never even wanted… — Kenneth Cain Copy Share Image
“People accuse me of having interiorized a feeling of racial inferiority, so that I attack my own culture out of self-hatred, because… — Ayaan Hirsi Ali Copy Share Image
When you look at the Justice Department's report talking about the Ferguson Police Department's rampant pattern of discrimination and its excessive use… — Benjamin Crump Copy Share Image
Racism is an attack on the very notion of the universality of human rights. It systematically denies certain people the enjoyment of… — Irene Khan Copy Share Image
I would think black people think everything is about race. They are the ones who are on the outside of the game.… — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
The fact that hardly anyone is ever prepared to admit to racist behaviour is perhaps a sort of strength: it speaks to… — Martin Jacques Copy Share Image
“CLOTHES SWITCH How would the story change if the characters were dressed differently—preppy, gangsta rapper-style? ETHNIC/RACE SWITCH What if the characters were… — Maureen McLaughlin Copy Share Image
In Shadow and Bone,' Alina's race is never specified. But that entire book is basically built on a white default. My life… — Leigh Bardugo Copy Share Image
“I hope some cool-headed white men will make the Negroes save the rice for us. It is so much needed. They say… — Mary Boykin Chesnut Copy Share Image
“All that is really necessary to hate someone is not to give a shit about what happens to him. And when we… — Peter K. Fallon Copy Share Image
Speaking like this doesn't mean that we're anti-white, but it does mean we're anti-exploitation, we're anti-degradation, we're anti-oppression. — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
This is one of the most effective adaptations of racism over time - that we can think of racism as only something… — Robin DiAngelo Copy Share Image
Black folk, a lot of us lived as victims in a certain part of our history. And we had to really erase… — Dorothy Cotton Copy Share Image
In some perfect world where human nature is less messy and history less fraught, any and all people who had ever suffered… — Frank Bruni Copy Share Image
The problem isn't being a woman, and the problem isn't being Black; the problem is the people out there making it difficult… — Wunmi Mosaku Copy Share Image
Incidents of racial bias and implicit bias happen to African-Americans of every social class daily in America. White people seldom notice or… — Anthea Butler Copy Share Image
I ran away from home. I ran away from St. Louis, and then I ran away from the United States of America,… — Josephine Baker Copy Share Image
But there are certain very practical things American Negro writers can do. And must do. There's a song that says, "the time… — Langston Hughes Copy Share Image
Even though it might appear otherwise from what I've said, I am not a racist. I should not have said what I… — John Rocker Copy Share Image
Thirty years ago, in 1976, the notion of organized activity to combat discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity was an… — Robert Brady Copy Share Image
Let me say, I fully embrace equality, and I believe in the innate value of every single human being and that all… — Betsy DeVos Copy Share Image
The legacy of [Martin Luther] King is the very thing that must be expanded if America is to be free and democratic… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
“newspaper reports of rape constructed white defendants as individual offenders and black defendants as representative of the failings of their racial group,” — Ibram X. Kendi Copy Share Image
It's time for Black people to stop playing the separating game of geography, of where the slave ship put us down. We… — John Henrik Clarke Copy Share Image
Black and awkward is the worst, because black people are stereotyped as being anything but awkward in mainstream media... Black people are… — Issa Rae Copy Share Image
“People existed, however, who believed that closet racist were everywhere around them. They needed to believe this in order to have prupose… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
The Holocaust illustrates the consequences of prejudice, racism and stereotyping on a society. It forces us to examine the responsibilities of citizenship… — Tim Holden Copy Share Image