Black folk who don't realize I'm mixed will treat me like I'm some racist person, or when white people find out I'm… — Logic Copy Share Image
This idea of walls, segregation, labels, and 'You against us' and 'We are superior and you are inferior.' Which people are legitimate?… — Sebastian Lelio Copy Share Image
Although much of the media have their antennae out to pick up anything that might be construed as racism against blacks, they… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
“This renewed politics of otherness not only allowed entire categories of poor whites to develop a powerful sense of racial belonging, but… — Derrick Bell Copy Share Image
We now have the Black Lives Matter movement. I find that curious because this country is not quite the melting pot it's… — Jonathan Majors Copy Share Image
We were made to believe / our faces betrayed us. / Our bodies were loud / with yellow / screaming flesh /… — Janice Mirikitani Copy Share Image
Even now, as a footballer I've experienced many types of racism. Whether that's abuse on the field or from the crowd, it's… — Troy Deeney Copy Share Image
But what of black women?... I most sincerely doubt if any other race of women could have brought its fineness up through… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
“A vast nonprofit-industrial complex and elite racial leadership class has arisen since the 1960s to define the parameters of acceptable political action… — Tipu's Tiger Copy Share Image
Some social scientists say that in-group/out-group biases are hard-wired into the human brain. Even without overt prejudice, it is cognitively convenient for… — Rosabeth Moss Kanter Copy Share Image
The White House wants us talking about racism and the justice system because they use it as a springboard to scare Americans… — Brianna Keilar Copy Share Image
“My grandmother and my two aunts were an exhibition in resilience and resourcefulness and black womanhood. They rarely talked about the unfairness… — Janet Mock Copy Share Image
“Despite the strides America has made in the civil rights movement, eradicating Jim Crow laws, teaching tolerance, and electing an African-American president,… — Lisa Bloom Copy Share Image
“However much history may be invoked in support of these policies (affirmative action), no policy can apply to history but can only… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
I belong to a bowling team with black and Latino coworkers. And when we get together and we talk about politics -… — Steve Inskeep Copy Share Image
If I'm a racist, why is one of the top civil rights activists of the 1960s asking me to be a centerpiece… — Andrew Breitbart Copy Share Image
To be a colored man in America ... and enjoy it, you must be greatly daring, greatly stolid, greatly humorous and greatly… — Jessie Redmon Fauset Copy Share Image
In America, mixed-race identity tends to invite both curiosity and suspicion, largely because few have found a way to interrogate it without… — Jenna Wortham Copy Share Image
The Million Man March was held on a Monday. Most marches were always held on a weekend and most marches were paid… — Louis Farrakhan Copy Share Image
In America, we have struggled too much, too long as a country trying to overcome racism and sexism and homophobia. We cannot… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
America was built on segregation. It's gonna stay segregated until everyone's equal, and that ain't gonna happen when it's a capitalistic society. — MC Ren Copy Share Image
The greatest difference between now and 1964, when I began teaching, is that public policy has pretty much eradicated the dream of… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
Your race, creed, and sex are what you are, while homosexuality and cross-dressing are things you do. This is a free country,… — Mike Johnson Copy Share Image
I think race is very important. I think generally speaking, we've to face the general problem, which is that we are seeing… — James Heckman Copy Share Image
As a parent, you want to protect your children, but the fact of racism in this country, of inequality, that is still… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
Racism is systemic: It's oppression that's built into the laws, legislation, into the way neighborhoods are policed, and into job opportunities and… — Justin Simien Copy Share Image
I simply wish my parents would have taught me about speciesism and how it was just as evil as racism, sexism and… — Gary Yourofsky Copy Share Image
Sexism and racism and homophobia and classism are so naturalized. All these stereotypes make people think it's just normal that straight white… — Kathleen Hanna Copy Share Image
A descendant of enslaved people, George Floyd was born with generational trauma in his DNA and denied the generational wealth that belonged… — Cori Bush Copy Share Image
I've been fortunate not to have been pigeonholed by virtue of being mixed-race, of being English and black, and by virtue of… — Thandie Newton Copy Share Image
Many of us actively working to interrupt racism continually hear complaints about the 'gotcha' culture of white anti-racism. There is a stereotype… — Robin DiAngelo Copy Share Image
Michael Dyson is popular amongst most blacks because he uses his pedestal as an 'educated' man to justify blacks' rage and hatred… — Jesse Lee Peterson Copy Share Image
There are some things for which there is no apology, and on the question of slavery, there is no adequate apology for… — Harriet Lerner Copy Share Image
False and doubtful positions, relied upon as unquestionable maxims, keep those who build on them in the dark from truth. Such are… — John Locke Copy Share Image
“At first, I always make it a point to give in to the prejudices of society. That is how I have always… — Mrs. Oliphant Copy Share Image
Whatever your issue is, whether it's racism or homophobia or policy issues or taxes or urban decay or health care, you're not… — Ralph Nader Copy Share Image
Racism is everywhere - the older generations in Malaysia still say things like, 'She's darker-skinned; maybe don't marry her,' and it's very… — Yuna Copy Share Image
Whatever the color of a man's skin, we are all mankind. So every denial of freedom, of equal opportunity for a livelihood,… — Everett Dirksen Copy Share Image
“The story of race has become a self-fulfilling, self-perpetuating prophecy as the story creates the ideas, which then reinforce the story.” — Debby Irving Copy Share Image
“The court’s ruling established a precedent more powerful than the Lum family could have imagined. By fighting, they only made the enemy… — Adrienne Berard Copy Share Image
