Racism has always existed, and a big part of it is people just not knowing others. I think humans change other human's… — Maz Jobrani Copy Share Image
And affirmative action is a very nice term for racial discrimination against better-qualified white people in jobs, employment, promotions and scholarships, and… — David Duke Copy Share Image
I guess the subject of race is so natural to me I never think of it as hefty. It's something I talk… — Danzy Senna Copy Share Image
I found myself in the middle of a race riot when I was about 14 years old, and I found someone pointing… — Tracy Chapman Copy Share Image
“This “disorganized family life” in Black neighborhoods was caused by racial discrimination, poverty, cultural pathology, and the introduction of the matriarchal Black… — Ibram X. Kendi Copy Share Image
“Probably best, he thought. If a Negro got legs he ought to use them. Sit down too long, somebody will figure out… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
Everything that I've gone through informs me and my opinions in a way, I guess because I am a child of segregation.… — Samuel L. Jackson Copy Share Image
I remember people saying: 'You look funny, your hair is so black, you have a flat nose,' but I didn't think of… — Sadie Jones Copy Share Image
“I have often reflected upon the new vistas that reading opened to me. I knew right there, in prison, that reading had… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
In the U.S., while individual whites might be against racism, they still benefit from their group's control. Yes, an individual person of… — Robin DiAngelo Copy Share Image
The areas in which I teach are working-class history and African-American Studies and at its best the critical study of whiteness often… — David Roediger Copy Share Image
“Many members of that early band of twentieth-century pilgrims must have yearned for the honesty of Southern landscapes where even if they… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
“Time and again politicians have betrayed the very racial and ethnic groups they belong to and claim to represent, while also being… — Tipu's Tiger Copy Share Image
Right-wing propagandists like Limbaugh and Coulter are essentially entertainers, entertainers who stimulate prejudice, selfishness and meanness the way a comedian works for… — Hal Crowther Copy Share Image
We as Aboriginal people still have to fight to prove that we are straight out plain human beings, the same as everyone… — Neville Bonner Copy Share Image
“I see only one hope for our country, and that is when white men and black men, desiring neither power nor money,… — Alan Paton Copy Share Image
The consequences of whiteness are particularly lethal right now. And the ignorance about it, especially on the part of white people themselves,… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
Cultural patterns of oppression are not only interrelated but are bound together and influenced by the intersectional systems of society. Examples of… — Kimberle Williams Crenshaw Copy Share Image
Black lives matter, as a subset of all lives matter. So any injustices to a particular group must be addressed specific to… — Tony Evans Copy Share Image
They said that I had sold out and (am an) Uncle Tom. And I said well, they deserve to have that view.… — J. C. Watts Copy Share Image
“In any system of terror, the functionaries must first of all see the victims as less than human, and Victorian ideas about… — Adam Hochschild Copy Share Image
Racism is a much more clandestine, much more hidden kind of phenomenon, but at the same time it's perhaps far more terrible… — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
It's very difficult for I think any player in any sport to want to play for a guy that doesn't believe in… — Jermaine O'Neal Copy Share Image
Black people are inferior to Caucasians. Blacks constitute a totally distinct group; they overshadow the country with the germ... of evil. — David Wilmot Copy Share Image
I'm not trying to say that it never hurt or that I never felt its sting, but I can honestly say that… — Robert Guillaume Copy Share Image
To be a black person is to come from a long bloodline of survivors and storytellers, with a resilience that people can't… — Lena Waithe Copy Share Image
The discrimination is not made openly, but a Negro who goes to such places is informed that there are no accommodations, or… — Ray Stannard Baker Copy Share Image
Blacks who have not succumbed to the victim culture have been, are and will be doing quite well - all on their… — Tammy Bruce Copy Share Image
A lot of these things in this world were only a dream for Martin Luther King. Not a one-term, but a two-term… — Dabo Swinney Copy Share Image
It was August 28th, 1963, and the greatest civil rights coalition in modern history had descended upon Washington. Hundreds of thousands of… — Yvette Clarke Copy Share Image
“...the great tragedy of segregation isn't so much that we see less of each other but that in separating from each other… — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
Here was one of the white man's most characteristic behavior patterns - where black men are concerned. He loves himself so much… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Together, we will continue to build a stronger, more inclusive community, and send a strong message to those who spread hate: there… — Lucy McBath Copy Share Image
The conviction that all men are equal by reason of their natural dignity has been generally accepted. Hence racial discrimination can no… — Pope John XXIII Copy Share Image
Those of us who experience racism cannot, and should not, internalize it, despite the impact that it can have on our everyday… — Linda Thomas-Greenfield Copy Share Image
I'm a fan of the kind of political correctness that is about not promoting prejudice. But some people in America are offended… — Ricky Gervais Copy Share Image
A lot of my friends - I am the only white person in their circle. Being able to hear other perspectives besides… — Andy Mineo Copy Share Image
“Discriminations are never a sign of a civilized society. What makes us civilized is our act of liberated kindness with other people… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
I always felt culturally adrift as a child because I'm mixed race. I've had to deal with that since I was little.… — Rhiannon Giddens Copy Share Image
There is a bit of, I think, geographic bigotry that actually exists in our country, where people that haven't been to places,… — Doug Burgum Copy Share Image
