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
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“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
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
By importing into the U.K. the divisive politics of anti-racism from America, with its demented campus dramas and neuroses about 'safe spaces',… — Munira Mirza Copy Share Image
It becomes more necessary to see the truth as it is if you realise that the only vehicle for change are these… — Steven Biko Copy Share Image
At times I feel it almost impossible not to despond entirely of there ever being a better, brighter day for us. None… — Charlotte Forten Grimke Copy Share Image
“the so-called radical Negroes who have read and misunderstood Karl Marx and his disciples and would solve the political as well as… — Carter G. Woodson Copy Share Image
“Despite claims that these radical policy changes were driven by fiscal conservatism...the reality is that government was not reducing the amount of… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
I speak to you only as an American who happens to be an American Negro and one who is proud of that… — Jackie Robinson Copy Share Image
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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
Poverty and the rule of race that is called apartheid drive the Transkeian migrant from security on the land to work in… — Ruth First 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
White folks was in the caves while we [blacks] was building empires ... We built pyramids before Donald Trump ever knew what… — Al Sharpton Copy Share Image
Black men struggle with masculinity so much. The idea that we must always be strong really presses us all down - it… — Donald Glover Copy Share Image
No. What would I look like fighting for equality with the white man? I don't want to go down that low. I… — Fannie Lou Hamer Copy Share Image
The whites were really brutishly ignorant, blitheringly, so they killed people sometimes - just came into the African-American community and maimed people… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
To prevent enabling oppression, we demand that black people be twice as good. To prevent verifying stereotypes, we pledge to never eat… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
In many ways, history is marked as 'before' and 'after' Rosa Parks. She sat down in order that we all might stand… — Jesse Jackson Copy Share Image
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We all had to dodge the idea we were spokespeople for our races. Like, 'Hey, it's the Mexican Guy! The Filipino! The… — Taboo Copy Share Image
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I did a paper on why is race so uncomfortable to discuss. Is it because you don't want to bring up bad… — O. J. Mayo Copy Share Image
A lot of people of color and the Black Lives Matter movement will talk about what's really happening, but it seems like… — Jamila Woods Copy Share Image
There shall be equality of treatment and opportunity for all persons in the armed services without regard to race, color, religion or… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
I regard the Klan, the Anglo-Saxon clubs and White American societies, as far as the Negro is concerned, as better friends of… — Marcus Garvey Copy Share Image
All the struggles that were fought for here in the United States for African Americans, you now enjoy the privileges of. You… — Danai Gurira Copy Share Image
I think that people are still trying to understand each other and overcome prejudices. And people are still, most important, loving each… — Joe Wright Copy Share Image
Systemic racism is something that diminishes all of us. Of course its worst effects are for its victims, but our entire country… — Pete Buttigieg Copy Share Image
I myself have seen the same racism happen to me and my Dad... I think about all the stories I have growing… — Jamal Murray Copy Share Image
“I am quite sure ... I have no race prejudice, and I think I have no color prejudices, nor caste prejudices. Indeed,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Also, of course, for most of this time most Americans thought of America as a white country with, at best, only a… — Samuel P. Huntington Copy Share Image
To judge someone before understanding that person is a form of human rejection and feeds upon itself. It intensifies personal insecurities, necessitating… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The NAACP ignores the wellspring of racism from within its own ranks, daring to brand anyone who disagrees with the standard they… — Dana Loesch Copy Share Image
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