Slavery remained in the Deep South by other names - in prison programs with charges over nothing and eternal debt that threatened… — David Swanson Copy Share Image
The imperialistic or capitalistic system occupies areas. It occupies Vietnam now. They occupy them by sending soldiers there, by sending policeman there.… — Huey Newton Copy Share Image
New Orleans invented the brown paper bag party - usually at a gathering in a home - where anyone darker than the… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
White guilt is more of a sanctioned social convention than a genuine emotional experience. It’s a form of theatrical empathy that’s socially… — Jack Donovan Copy Share Image
“Racism didn't magically go away just because we refuse to talk about it. Rather, overt racial language is replaced by covert racial… — Patricia Hill Collins Copy Share Image
My mom experienced racism. She was harassed by the KKK several times. And I experienced racism myself, growing up. In New Jersey,… — Aldis Hodge Copy Share Image
It is time to celebrate the New Black Americans - those who have sealed the Deal, who aren't beholden to liberal indulgence… — John Ridley Copy Share Image
Everybody has asked the question, ... 'What shall we do with the Negro?' I have had but one answer from the beginning.… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
“Physicians, patients, and ethicists must also understand that acknowledging abuse and encouraging African Americans to participate in research are compatible goals. History… — Harriet A. Washington Copy Share Image
It's not white versus black any more, it's haves versus have-nots. Unless the black middle-classes unite to promote the interests of the… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
“The human understanding, once it has adopted opinions, either because they were already accepted and believed, or because it likes them, draws… — Gary Taubes Copy Share Image
“Telling people that they are racist—on the basis of immutable characteristics, using incomprehensible definitions that they may not know or understand—then claiming… — Dr Val Thomas Copy Share Image
It is my hope that as the Negro plunges deeper into the quest for freedom and justice he will plunge even deeper… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think it's important for us to recognize that although historically black communities have been very progressive with respect to issues of… — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
“In 1965, as Ralph Gleason has reported, when Martin Luther King's march on Selma, Alabama, was brutally attacked by local and state… — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
This... there's nothing more difficult than this. Because we have really, truly good white people in important positions. And the fact of… — Mark Lloyd Copy Share Image
“I started off believing all men were equal. I now know that's the most unlikely thing ever to have been, because millions… — Lee Kuan Yew Copy Share Image
“It may sound exaggerated to say that the clash of civilizations and cultures as what we're witnessing in Europe between muslims and… — Robin Sacredfire Copy Share Image
I am angry about the mammoth, out-of-control social welfare entitlement programs from Washington, D.C., that were supposed to solve our problems. The… — Allen West Copy Share Image
“By hiding behind the overarching term “white privilege,” the small percentage of privileged whites have ensured the following: first, they remain disguised… — Louis Yako Copy Share Image
“just then a little black ant struggles by alone, alone. And in that moment, I want us to give ourselves over to… — Michael Kleber-Diggs Copy Share Image
“A week later fifty-four sit-ins were under way in fifteen cities in nine states in the South.60 It was obvious from the… — James T. Patterson Copy Share Image
“When it comes to the Civil War, all of our popular understanding, our popular history and culture, our great films, the subtext… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
This [EURO] was never a hate group, the European American Unity and Rights Organization was an organization in its charter is dedicated… — David Duke Copy Share Image
“Thirteen million Negroes in America have never known three of the “Four Freedoms” which America is supposedly spreading to the rest of… — Stephen M. Ward Copy Share Image
“Look, people need to conform the external reality they face daily with this subjective feeling they likewise experience constantly. To do this… — Sergio De La Pava Copy Share Image
The history of black people in America, it's so painful. But throughout all that history there has still been the ability of… — KiKi Layne Copy Share Image
In distinguishing between Islamic teachings and social taboos, we must remember that Islam forbids injustice; Injustice against people, against nations, against women.… — Benazir Bhutto Copy Share Image
The truth is, no one wants to face the fact that there was a huge double standard in baseball, and white athletes… — Jose Canseco Copy Share Image
Racism should be viewed as an intervening variable. You give me a set of conditions and I can produce racism in any… — William Julius Wilson Copy Share Image
I don't ever judge somebody by what comes out of their mouth 'cause I don't know what they're thinking. Sometimes people might… — P.K. Subban Copy Share Image
“As a kid I understood that people were different colors, but in my head white and black and brown were like types… — Trevor Noah Copy Share Image
Lately... Americans have begun to understand that trouble does not start somewhere on the other side of town. It seems to originate… — June Jordan Copy Share Image
“Being with people of different races or ethnicities is not an occasion to build a wall, but it affords us the opportunity… — Larnelle Harris Copy Share Image
Age-based retirement arbitrarily severs productive persons from their livelihood, squanders their talents, scars their health, strains an already overburdened Social Security system,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I shall not vote for Sen. Obama and it will not be because he—like me and like all of us—carries African genes.… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“First, it confirmed how inextricably interwoven the past is in the present, how heavily that past bears on the future; we cannot… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
“...After all, acknowledging unfairness then calls decent people forth to correct those injustices. And since most persons are at their core, decent… — Tim Wise Copy Share Image
“There are fundamentally two ways you can experience the police in America: as the people you call when there's a problem, the… — Chris L. Hayes Copy Share Image
“They'd run all these tests on him and decided he wasn't racist. He wasn't, either, but not because he thought about it… — William Gibson Copy Share Image