'Separate but unequal' didn't work in respect to race, it doesn't work in respect to gender, and it especially doesn't work when… — Kimberle Williams Crenshaw Copy Share Image
But for the national welfare, it is urgent to realize that the minorities do think, and think about something other than the… — Zora Neale Hurston Copy Share Image
I grew up in the South. I grew up in the days of legalized segregation. And, so, whether you called it legal… — Johnnetta B. Cole Copy Share Image
“Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible…We may encounter many defeats but we… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Two widely dissimilar races, whether equal or not, cannot peaceably coexist in the same territory until they are either uniformly mongrelised or… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
“and yet there is something so amiable in the prejudices of a young mind, that one is sorry to see them give… — Jane AUsten Copy Share Image
“Donald Trump, whose signature contribution to political debate had been his relentless propagation of the lie that Barack Obama is not an… — James Forman Jr Copy Share Image
Racism does not limit itself to biology or economics or psychology or metaphysics; it attacks along many fronts and in many forms,… — Albert Memmi Copy Share Image
“While we maintain the unity of the human species, we at the same time repel the depressing assumption of superior and inferior… — Alexander von Humboldt Copy Share Image
“My friends, the mistake we often make is to believe that whiteness is only prejudice, that it is only bigotry, that it… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
The racism is so profound and the recognition - the kind of deep recognition that you have to humiliate. It's not about… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
When we talk about racists, first, racists still exist on this earth. They're in Europe and in Austria and Germany where we… — David Alaba Copy Share Image
“Most of them had, among all the factors in the campaign, noticed only what they regarded as Windrip’s humor, and three planks… — Sinclair Lewis Copy Share Image
“How do we understand prejudice, hatred, and violence in the context of modern societies, like our own, among people much like ourselves,… — Helmut Walser Smith Copy Share Image
We are social beings who make communities with an urgency, and it is a stern charge to make us take refuge in… — Vijay Prashad Copy Share Image
Throughout African-American literature, the writer has, in a sense, been burdened by the necessity of pleading the case for the whole race.… — Glenn Ligon Copy Share Image
We must always meet our obligation to those who fall behind without our assistance. But let's remember, without a race there can… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
I always say African American history is the quintessential American story. It's about perseverance and resilience - something everyone can relate to. — Philip Freelon Copy Share Image
I need to hear something about how he's going to bring people together in the spirit, hopefully, of Martin Luther King Jr.,… — Al Sharpton Copy Share Image
After 'Kelis Was Here,' I was done. I was like, 'I will never put out another record again; I hate this business;… — Kelis Copy Share Image
Racism was not a problem on the Discworld, because - what with trolls and dwarfs and so on - speciesism was more… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Lynching is an important aspect of racial history and racial inequality in America, because it was visible, it was so public, it… — Bryan Stevenson Copy Share Image
To have built up a new organization, which was not purely political, among Negroes in America was a wonderful feat, for the… — Marcus Garvey Copy Share Image
“George Wallace, who had been Governor of Alabama during the worst of the troubles there. Wallace had a knack of appealing to… — Hugh Brogan Copy Share Image
“White people who want people of color to do the work for them, who want us to draw the map and then… — bell hooks Copy Share Image
It would be against all nature for all the Negroes to be either at the bottom, top, or in between. We will… — Zora Neale Hurston Copy Share Image
"Racist" is a confusing word, and it should be clarified. Men have no special rights simply because they belong to one race… — Jose Marti Copy Share Image
It's interesting to think that somebody could be a virulent racist... but actually that doesn't make somebody inhuman. It just means that… — Paterson Joseph Copy Share Image
When I countered that Archie Bunker didn't have to put down a race of people to say that, he replied, 'and you're… — Norman Lear Copy Share Image
To me, drag is about doing whatever you want, and nobody says anything. And 'Drag Race' is about doing what you're told… — Trixie Mattel Copy Share Image
“By linking something to race or religion, politicians distract Malaysians from the core issue while also garnering support from those whose identities… — Brian Yap Copy Share Image
“It was not an unusual site to see Negro tenant farmers crossing the intersection of Spring and Barbrick on the way to… — Nancy B. Brewer Copy Share Image
Race is not particularly interesting to me. Power is. Who has power and who doesn't. Slavery interests me because it's an incredible… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
I don't agree with the Black Lives Matter organizers. They are stated as anti-capitalists. And it's much more than just the police… — Glenn Beck Copy Share Image
The black radical agenda, which pushes us closer to freedom and the agenda to which I subscribe, calls for an eradication of… — Patrisse Cullors Copy Share Image
The nature of racism is that it grinds down the soul of the man more finely than it does the soul of… — Ruby Dee Copy Share Image
I have a responsibility to diversity onstage, but one of the things I've heard about our production of 'Boys' is that it's… — Joe Mantello Copy Share Image
You may call me a Klansman if you will, but, potentially, every white man is a Klansman, as far as the Negro… — Marcus Garvey Copy Share Image
Most interracial commercials on TV are produced to provide white Americans with a sense of comfort that in the face of changing… — Jason Johnson Copy Share Image
Many white people sense that they are being blamed for the sins of white slave owners and imperialists merely through some lineage… — Claire Fox Copy Share Image
