“It struck me that perhaps the defining feature of being drafted into the black race was the inescapable robbery of time, because… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
“The human race is but a monotonous affair. Most of them labour the greater part of their time for mere subsistence; and… — Charles William Eliot Copy Share Image
In one sense, Obama's point couldn't be clearer: race is a distraction from class-based inequities. And if we dismiss working-class resentment as… — Sarah Churchwell Copy Share Image
I think it's sad, and weird, and strange that [race in casting] is still a thing. It's 2013. Somebody else needs to… — Shonda Rhimes Copy Share Image
Being a black man in America isn't easy. The hunt is on, and you're the prey. All I'm saying is... All I'm… — Mr Butler Copy Share Image
We have a history of gender and racial bias on our court that continues to undermine the system. Excluding individuals based on… — Anita Hill Copy Share Image
As we address extreme weather and pandemic disease, we will understand and overcome racism and bigotry so we can safely and together… — Victor J. Glover Copy Share Image
As someone who escaped religious persecution in Lebanon and whose parents were kidnapped in Beirut, I fully support the protection of all… — Gad Saad Copy Share Image
Martin Luther King's 1963 'I have a dream' speech was a thrilling milestone in the civil rights movement, so enduring that we… — Patricia J. Williams Copy Share Image
Race is the true protagonist of the American novel. Our most popular classic fictions have known this, from 'Moby Dick' to 'Beloved;'… — Kevin Young Copy Share Image
As a woman of color, I've come to rely on straight white men telling me my experience of the world has nothing… — Sarah Cooper Copy Share Image
I think back to when I was growing up in Fort Worth, Texas, in the 1950s, during the [John] McCarthy era, with… — Frances Moore Lappé Copy Share Image
That argument doesn’t make any sense to me. So we want to advance as a society and as a culture, but, say,… — Kobe Bryant Copy Share Image
“Consumptive patients, with lungs incompetent to perform the duties of lungs, people with defective hearts that break down under excitement of the… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
“We accept and welcome therefore, as conditions to which we must accommodate ourselves, great inequality of environment, the concentration of business, industrial… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
White people in North America live in a social environment that protects and insulates them from race-based stress. This insulated environment of… — Robin DiAngelo Copy Share Image
I've always been raised to love everyone, to accept everyone for their differences, and to just be open. But at a young,… — Nia Long Copy Share Image
The sad and tragic fact is that the civil rights movement, despite its honorable and courageous past, has over the years degenerated… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Black Lives Matter was born out of our unwavering love for black people and our undeniable rage over a system that has… — Patrisse Cullors Copy Share Image
There is nothing derogatory in any employment which ministers to the well-being of the race. It is the spirit that is carried… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
To separate children from others of similar age and qualifications solely because of their race generates a feeling of inferiority as to… — Earl Warren Copy Share Image
We have got to move away from the concept of race and color because that is what apartheid is. We cannot end… — Oliver Tambo Copy Share Image
You go, well you can't joke about race. Well if you're from a different race and that's your experience of the world… — Jimmy Carr Copy Share Image
Some white people are so accustomed to operating at a competitive advantage that when the playing field is level, they feel handicapped. — Nathan McCall Copy Share Image
The Negro neighborhood, which is inferior, is begging for a chance to - integrate itself into that which is - is superior,… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Quit worrying about what other people think and just be who God made you to be. If you will run your race,… — Joel Osteen Copy Share Image
At a time when efforts are being made to eradicate discrimination between the sexes in the search for social equality and justice,… — Carol Gilligan Copy Share Image
No one should advocate any peaceful suffering to black people, unless the black - white man is going to practice the same… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
If you're black, you can't just be ordinary. All successful black people are extraordinary. If you are tremendously successful, and you're black,… — Tyler Perry Copy Share Image
“I do not care for prejudice in any form. In my opinion, we women have been subjected to so much of it… — Dianne Day Copy Share Image
Too often, customary practices and discrimination on the basis of gender, ethnicity, race, religion, social status, or class are the root sources… — Said Musa Copy Share Image
The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color-line, -- the relation of the darker to the lighter races… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
“Black collegians created BGFs in an effort to provide the interpersonal, social, educational, and professional support denied to them in many U.S.… — Ricky L. Jones Copy Share Image
What I did not yet know so intensely was the hatred of the white American for the black, a hatred so deep… — Jean Genet Copy Share Image
“Some “superior” Africans agreed with the collection of ethnocentric steps for Africans, but rejected the racist ladder that deemed them inferior to… — Ibram X. Kendi Copy Share Image
The white people of the South are the greatest minority in this nation. They deserve consideration and understanding instead of the persecution… — Strom Thurmond Copy Share Image
There were some things in my childhood I thought we'd put to sleep. The idea of one race's supremacy over another. I… — Gregory Porter Copy Share Image
Most people divorce because one in the couple falls in love with someone else: it's a common cause of divorce. I still… — Isabella Rossellini Copy Share Image
The tendency of the casual mind is to pick out or stumble upon a sample which supports or defies its prejudices, and… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
Political division, based on color, is entirely artificial; and when it disappears, so will the domination of one color group by another. — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
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