I'm not saying I have to write a book that's ten times better than my counterparts, but I do think that I… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
“If we- and now I mean the relatively conscious whites and the relatively conscious blacks, who must, like lovers, insist on, or… — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
“There is a big difference between the act of owning up to your part in perpetuating white privilege and the notion that… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
I can't turn around without hearing about some 'civil rights advance's White people seem to think the black man ought to be… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Remember, we're talking [in The Black Power Mixtape] about 1967, the year before [Martin Luther] King's assassination. We're talking about the emergence… — Danny Glover Copy Share Image
Obviously, race is the elephant in the room, and we all understand that. Unless it is talked about constantly, it's not going… — Stan Van Gundy Copy Share Image
“The history of slavery is the history of the United States. It was not peripheral to our founding; it was central to… — Clint Smith Copy Share Image
I have a dream that one day, down in Alabama, with its vicious racists, with its governor having his lips dripping with… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
And then there was moments with white guy where like we would be in Harlem. There would be five brothers in the… — Sanaa Lathan Copy Share Image
“White, is not a race, it is a color, European, is not a race, it is a place named after the goddess… — Ron McVan Copy Share Image
It did not seem to me that prejudice, poverty, discrimination, repression and racism were confined to the North of Ireland. I could… — Bernadette Devlin 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
Why should you row a boat race? Why endure the long months of pain in preparation for a fierce half hour that… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
“Neoliberal ideology drives us to focus on individuals, ourselves, individual victims, individual perpetrators. But how is it possible to solve the massive… — Angela Y. Davis Copy Share Image
Your ancestors dragged these black people from their homes by force; and in the white man's quest for wealth and an easy… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Humanity from the first has had its vultures and sharks, and representatives of the fraternity who prey upon mankind may be expected… — Anna Julia Cooper Copy Share Image
“I say to you today, my friends, that in spite of the difficulties and frustrations of the moment, I still have a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Well, when you think about it black American culture evolved over three and a half centuries. Every minute under which they lived… — Shelby Steele Copy Share Image
A race that is solely dependent upon another for economic existence sooner or later dies. As we have in the past been… — Marcus Garvey Copy Share Image
“As a form of neurosis, race-conscious nationalism almost always ignores logic and knowledge: In the East European civil wars between 1918 and… — Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn Copy Share Image
When I speak of divisions greater than gender or race, I say that because it is so unimaginable. I can imagine what… — Martha Stout Copy Share Image
Those who deplore our militants, who exhort patience in the name of a false peace, are in fact supporting segregation and exploitation.… — A. Philip Randolph Copy Share Image
There are some things concerning which we must always be maladjusted if we are to be people of good will. We must… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
“Discussing racism is not the same thing as discussing 'black identity'. Discussing racism is about discussing white identity. It's about white anxiety.… — Reni Eddo-Lodge Copy Share Image
You know, I love all kinds of activism. I certainly think blacks deserve to have something whether it is affirmative action or… — Russell Simmons Copy Share Image
In 2006, I entered the presidential palace in the main square of La Paz as the first indigenous president of Bolivia. Our… — Evo Morales Copy Share Image
I don't encourage people to litigate when facing discrimination: It is so hard - painful and difficult. It's draining financially, emotionally, and… — Ellen Pao Copy Share Image
“simply a member of a culture that at one time normalized that behavior, it shaped us. We can’t undo that level of… — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
“Every February, my classmates and I were herded into assemblies for a ritual review of the Civil Rights Movement. Our teachers urged… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
In many instances the conduct of colored workmen, and those who have spoken for them, has not been in asking or demanding… — Samuel Gompers Copy Share Image
Life is, if anything, the art of combination. Of discrimination. Of freely picking one's own personal pattern out of a hundred choices.… — Sydney J. Harris Copy Share Image
One of the most important parts of the civil rights movement that people don't talk about was these mass meetings. It's like… — Stanley Nelson Jr Copy Share Image
“When I started doing community organizing in Boston's neighborhoods, working on all the issues that had affected my family - violence, poverty,… — Michael Patrick MacDonald Copy Share Image
“There appears to be a vast amount of confusion on this point, but I do not know many Negroes who are eager… — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
I will probably have a tendency to lean toward trying to resolve the issues that negatively impact black people, but the overall… — David Banner Copy Share Image
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
When people think what is the most simple sort of human, it's a white man, and anything else that is added to… — Lisa Hanawalt 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
“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
“...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