In America, many marginally competent or flatly incompetent whites are hired every day -some because their white skin suits the conscious or… — Shelby Steele Copy Share Image
Whoever is standing up telling the white man that his position is unjust and that the black people should not have to… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Intersectionality has made an important contribution to social and political analysis, asking all of us to think about what assumptions of race… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
“It’s such a strange thing, but in two years of hustling I never once thought of it as a crime. I honestly… — Trevor Noah Copy Share Image
I once wrote that Black Americans are involved in an intriguing experiment to see if an oppressed minority can continue to march… — Gerald Horne Copy Share Image
If anti-Semitism is a variety of racism, it is a most peculiar variety, with many unique characteristics. In my view as a… — Paul Johnson Copy Share Image
I believe in pride of race and lineage and self: in pride of self so deep as to scorn injustice to other… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
There was a few times where we felt alienated - going to, let's say, a Public Enemy show, and Professor Griff is… — Everlast Copy Share Image
“But the statue attracted a middle-aged, brown-haired, overweight White guy. Clearly drunk, he climbed onto the tiny stage and started fondling Buddha… — Ibram X. Kendi Copy Share Image
“I have to think about that one for a minute. “Everybody’s pissed ’cause One-Fifteen hasn’t been charged,” I say, “but also because… — Angie Thomas Copy Share Image
We reject segregation even more militantly than you say you do! We want separation, which is not the same! The Honorable Elijah… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
“It’s got fuck all to do with being racist. I don’t care if he’s purple or orange or fucking yellow with pink… — Karl Wiggins Copy Share Image
Think about the pressure to "pass" by lying about one's agethat familiar temptation to falsify a condition of one's birth oridentity and… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Black Americans should be given credit for finding probably the perfect weapon; the weapon of the song. And that song continues. Most… — Nikki Giovanni Copy Share Image
“Remember a Florida judge instructing a jury to focus only on the moment when George Zimmerman and Trayvon Marton interacted, thus transforming… — Carol Anderson Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
If anyone had told us in 1945 that there are certain battles we'll have to fight again we wouldn't have believed it.… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
“Such vicious circles can go on for centuries and even millennia, perpetuating an imagined hierarchy that sprang from a chance historical occurrence.… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
I suppose the "dilemma" might come up if I see a black athlete from the U.S. squaring off against a white Canadian… — George Elliott Clarke Copy Share Image
Growing up in a very rural and remote area in Colorado's San Luis Valley - one of the poorest counties in the… — Ken Salazar Copy Share Image
“There is a notion out there that black people enjoy the Sisyphean struggle against racism. In fact, most of us live for… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
“The idea of reappropriation isn’t a new one. The process of turning negative words, symbols, or ideas into positive parts of our… — Simon S. Tam Copy Share Image
“I also found that what the white man of the South practiced for himself, he assumed to be unthinkable in white women.… — Ida B. Wells-Barnett Copy Share Image
“The prevailing discriminatory practices during the sixties, whose targets were working people, women, and people of color, were atrocious. Thus, an enforceable… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
“His famous, soul-stirring "I have a dream" speech will still give you chills and break your heart today. Decades later, long after… — Craig Groeschel Copy Share Image
“We've been getting shafted for a long time now. We have fought, and the freaky little white men have prevailed. The stories… — Inga Muscio Copy Share Image
“It's alive and well everywhere. Native Americans get a lot of crap in the West and south west. Muslims get treated like… — Kathryn Stockett Copy Share Image
You're not a Black man. You're a human being in God's eyes. So when you sit down to talk to someone and… — James McBride Copy Share Image
“Whitepeople believed that whatever the manners, under every dark skin was a jungle. Swift unnavigable waters, swinging screaming baboons, sleeping snakes, red… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
“It is possible that the next economic downturn--or stock market crash--will bring on further developments. During the recession at the end of… — Steve Brouwer Copy Share Image
There are a lot of black men doing really well, taking care of their families, taking care of their wives, being successful,… — Thomas Jones Copy Share Image
“was at first bitter, and showed itself in ashes, insult, and blood; for the South believed an educated Negro to be a… — W.E.B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
My dad prepared me for the worst of times while also enabling me to succeed in the best. He taught me to… — Wendell Pierce Copy Share Image
In the white community, the path to a more perfect union means acknowledging that what ails the African-American community does not just… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Our only hope today lies in our ability to recapture the revolutionary spirit and go out into a sometimes hostile world declaring… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
“This week, Zuma was quoted as saying, 'When the British came to our country, they said everything we are doing was barbaric,… — Mark Gevisser Copy Share Image
Jonestown was supposed to be a great socialist experiment, a place where all the evil "isms" would be eradicated: racism, sexism, elitism.… — Julia Scheeres Copy Share Image
“If you are a white person who would like to treat black people as equals in every way - who would like… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
I still think that we have a hesitance to talk about things racial. And I think we do it at our detriment.… — Eric Holder Copy Share Image
Too often black people are confronted with an assumption that there is only one way to be black, and that anyone who… — Kemi Badenoch Copy Share Image
For the rest of their lives, [black men] can be denied the right to vote, automatically excluded from juries, and legally discriminated… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
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