White folks, no matter how well-meaning or open-minded, have no true idea what it's like to be black in America. That's not… — John Ridley Copy Share Image
I can't explain exactly why it lives within me for so long and passionately. But race matters to me; racial equality matters… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
I have a dream. With that one sentence, Martin Luther King touched and empowered an entire nation. You know what else he… — Christopher Titus Copy Share Image
Too many of our prejudices are like pyramids upside down. They rest on tiny, trivial incidents, but they spread upward and outward… — William McChesney Martin Copy Share Image
There is nothing stronger than human prejudice. A crazy sentimentalism, like that of Peter the Hermit, hurled half of Europe upon Asia,… — Wendell Phillips Copy Share Image
“They walked off down the hall in the direction of a sign that said Colored Waiting Room. Billie guessed white folks didn't… — Elaine Hussey Copy Share Image
I have a theory. An audience doesn't need to get wrapped up in blackness every time they see a Negro actor. And… — Jim Brown Copy Share Image
The rage of someone who continues to strive so hard and work so hard but is interrupted every day by society, by… — Wunmi Mosaku Copy Share Image
“Echoing right-wing racist rhetoric, liberal organizations routinely smear "illegitimate," nonpacifist resistance as senseless and the work of irrational "thugs." And yet it… — Tipu's Tiger Copy Share Image
I have never seen white people who would sit, who would, who would approach a solution to their own problems nonviolently or… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
The common goal of 22 million Afro-Americans is respect as human beings, the God-given right to be a human being. Our common… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
“Among the early warnings was one in an article appearing in the New York Times Magazine of December 13, 1970, by a… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
There is no trickier subject for a writer from the South than that of affection between a black person and a white… — Kathryn Stockett Copy Share Image
“In those days I imagined racism as a tumor that could be isolated and removed from the body of America, not as… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
“Blacks have the most to gain from Stand Your Ground laws, and there is no evidence that the laws are applied in… — John R. Lott Jr Copy Share Image
"Oppression" or "systems of oppression" operate as a shorthand terms in much writing and speaking so that we do not have to… — Dean Spade Copy Share Image
“United States... on the one hand this is a country of egalitarian promise, a land of opportunity for millions of immigrants of… — Thomas Piketty Copy Share Image
Racial identity is chosen and given. It is as much a product of the world's perception of you as it is of… — Ritchie Torres Copy Share Image
Wherever you go in the history of America, there have been Black people making contributions, but their contributions have been obscured, lost,… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
So white guilt is not a guilt of conscience; it's not something that you get up in the morning and say, my… — Shelby Steele Copy Share Image
“Children who have been silenced often enough learn not to talk about race publicly. Their questions don’t go away, they just go… — Beverly Daniel Tatum Copy Share Image
Historically, unfortunately, race seems to be the major division that humanity has imposed on itself, a way of subdividing into smaller groups. — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
By the 1960s, many of us believed that the Civil Rights Movement could eliminate racism in America during our lifetime. But despite… — Bill Cosby Copy Share Image
A fundamental but very challenging part of my work is moving white people from an individual understanding of racism - i.e. only… — Robin DiAngelo Copy Share Image
It is true that race is a social fiction, a myth perpetuated by a variety of peoples throughout the modern period, especially,… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
If I had to guess and put a name on it, I'd say that at some point, the drug war was as… — David Simon Copy Share Image
There is lot of competition happening in the South and I'm incapable of being in the race, but I will be more… — Shamna Kasim Copy Share Image
It's time we become comfortable with the uncomfortable conversations about race...Instead of being color blind, we need to be color brave. — Mellody Hobson Copy Share Image
If trees can create art, if they can encircle the globe seven times in one year, if prisoners can grow plants and… — Nalini Nadkarni Copy Share Image
The black people's struggle has vanquished racism. It was God who created colour. Today Obama, a son of Kenya, a son of… — Muammar al-Gaddafi Copy Share Image
If you look at how our world works, it seems like we've had racist things happen in the past and then waves… — Breanna Stewart Copy Share Image
When people talked about O.J. Simpson being race-neutral, that was a race card. It just meant we don't think of him as… — Kimberle Williams Crenshaw Copy Share Image
“With this law in place, White enslavers could now reap financial reward from relations “upon a negro woman.” But they wanted to… — Ibram X. Kendi Copy Share Image
As someone who has an affinity and passion for discussing racial and cultural issues, I made it a point to only discuss… — Jason Whitlock Copy Share Image
Racism and bigotry generally are the great driving engines of modern American liberalism. Even a remote hint of racism can trigger a… — Shelby Steele Copy Share Image
You expect to cop a bit wherever you go. In the past there hasn't been any racism or any racist comments that… — Glenn McGrath Copy Share Image
I think that society is aspiring towards racial indifference, but the reality of life is not that. And so when you meet… — Jay Chandrasekhar Copy Share Image
“Races, socioeconomic groups, and regions differ in their religious service attendance much more than they did a few decades ago. The religious… — Jean M. Twenge Copy Share Image
“So you got Black Lives Matter up your ass, every citizen a journalist with a cell-phone camera at the ready, and you… — Don Winslow Copy Share Image
I am tired of people using 'diverse' to mean 'of color.' That's not what that word means. 'Diversity' means people of all… — Courtney A. Kemp Copy Share Image
