Over the years, black leaders have been slow to recognize the need for a very, very progressive agenda. Anytime someone has talked… — William Julius Wilson Copy Share Image
“The race to make more money to keep up with the rich, he says, is the reason Americans are spending less time… — Robert Frank Copy Share Image
Of course you can more easily recognise the outsiders because they have a different skin color. But let us take for instance… — Norbert Elias Copy Share Image
“...she was something more- a force, a stable, familiar force like something out of my past which kept me from whirling off… — Ralph Ellison Copy Share Image
“There are hundreds of political prisoners right now in America’s jails who were so taken by Malcolm [X’s} spirit that they became… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
Rule Number One for working for a white lady, Minny: it is nobody’s business. You keep your nose out of your White… — Kathryn Stockett Copy Share Image
“Many DEI officers/professionals I have spoken to over the years have confirmed to me that they don’t feel they have any power… — Louis Yako Copy Share Image
I do atypical work for a white person, which is that I lead primarily white audiences in discussions on race every day,… — Robin DiAngelo Copy Share Image
The idea that writing about characters of another race requires a passage through a critical gauntlet, which involves apology and self-examination of… — C.E. Morgan Copy Share Image
“That is how they stay so white: by refusing to accept blemish or history. Whiteness isn't about being something, it is about… — Mat Johnson Copy Share Image
I truly believe that one of the things that has been lacking in America is a spirit of repentance about the injustices… — David Oyelowo Copy Share Image
“The doctrine that only whites can be racist is, in fact, itself an instigation to hate crimes. It is a doctrine that… — David Horowitz Copy Share Image
The Afro-American is not a bestial race. If this work can contribute in any way towards proving this, and at the same… — Ida B. Wells Copy Share Image
I worked when I was Congress on a second chance act. We have got to do a better job recognizing and correcting… — Mike Pence Copy Share Image
“The humanitarian philosophies that have been developed (sometimes under some religious banner and invariably in the face of religious opposition) are human… — Harry Kroto Copy Share Image
I grew up in a highly Hispanic neighborhood. It was very rare to find any race other than Mexicans. I feel very… — Emily Rios Copy Share Image
I'm just challenging white supremacy at its intellectual heart every day. It's a pedagogy that I deploy against some of the most… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
I was born in the 1960s. I came up in the 1970s. I know how race relations were. The thing is, I… — Shannon Sharpe Copy Share Image
In its essence, Martin Luther King Jr.'s ‘I Have a Dream' speech is one citizen's soul-searing plea with his countrymen––Whites and Blacks––to… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
The white population could not possibly be unaffected by those events - some whites more stubborn in their defense of segregation, but… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
I've been socially deemed black in America, and this is a category that's been hurting my family for generations and that has… — Thomas Chatterton Williams Copy Share Image
The glory of this land has been its capacity for transcending the moral evils of our past. For example, the long struggle… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
A Black man should be more independent and depend on himself for his freedom and not to take it for granted that… — Steven Biko Copy Share Image
Back when we were Neanderthals or whatever, we evolved to think along tribal lines. Survival was based on this idea of who… — Jordan Peele Copy Share Image
I was in Toronto when they had a severe outbreak of SARS - you know, Severe Asian Racism Syndrome. I was in… — Margaret Cho Copy Share Image
“Finally, don’t put on a Let’s Be Fair tone and say “But black people are racist too.” Because of course we’re all… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
Race doesn't mean what it used to in America anymore. It just doesn't. Obama's black, but he's not black the way people… — Louis C. K Copy Share Image
I think personally, I've always felt that the Association [NAACP] got itself hung-up in what I call its legal successes. Having had… — Ella Baker Copy Share Image
“Fellow-feeling. . .is the most important factor in producing a healthy political and social life. Neither our national nor our local civic… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“Segregation is still linked to racial disparities of every kind. Where you live plays a significant role in the quality of food… — Jeff Chang Copy Share Image
“There is no one human individual or group who can fully bear or manifest all that is involved in the image of… — Randy Alcorn Copy Share Image
For decades, scholars have studied the ways in which implicit biases affect how we perceive other people in this multiethnic society of… — J. D. Vance Copy Share Image
I think that in his 39 short years of life, Malcolm X came to symbolize Black urban America, its culture, its politics,… — Manning Marable Copy Share Image
I am a Muslim and . . . my religion makes me be against all forms of racism. It keeps me from… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
I never had that feeling that I had to carry the weight of somebody's ignorance around with me. And that was true… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
“Discrimination is the most polite word for abuse aka denying equal opportunity by anyone in power based on age, ancestry, color, disability… — Ramesh Lohia Copy Share Image
“I hold no preconceived prejudice against anyone," he'd said, "because to do so is utter folly for someone in my line of… — Jeffrey Ford Copy Share Image
White Americans must be made to understand the basic motives underlying Negro demonstrations. Many pent-up resentments and latent frustrations are boiling inside… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
“racism is about the power of a group and in America it’s white folks who have that power. How? Well, white folks… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
“The South believed an educated Negro to be a dangerous Negro. And the South was not wholly wrong; for education among all… — W.E.B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
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