Dr. Martin Luther King is not a black hero. He is an American hero. — Morgan Freeman Copy Share Image
No white racist makes you get pregnant when you are a black teenager. — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
“Use filmmaking to eliminate racism – use to it terminate misogyny – use it to destroy homophobia and all other primitiveness.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“Black power showed up in different ways, depending on the goals of the group.” — Junius Williams Copy Share Image
There are not enough Black people in America that we can just throw out our problematic brothers. — Jason Johnson Copy Share Image
I think that USA has done a step forward against racism by having a black president...twice. There's acceptance of american people. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The white Christian church never raised to the heights of Christ. It stayed within the limit of culture. — Jesse Jackson Copy Share Image
Martin Luther King Jr. was an impassioned advocate of economic justice as well as social justice. — Martin Luther King III Copy Share Image
Attacking another American's qualifications solely based on his ethnic background is bigotry. Plain and simple. — Ana Navarro Copy Share Image
Our country comes from a centuries-long culture of dehumanizing black and brown bodies. So what role does racism play? A huge role.… — Maya Moore Copy Share Image
I was lucky, as many of my generation was, in having a man like Dr. King in our lives. He came at… — Lena Horne Copy Share Image
Of course there are individual racists in America. Sadly that's true. And sadly that will always be true. It's true in this… — Monica Crowley Copy Share Image
“it is embarrassing for Coca-Cola to be located in a city that refuses to honor its Nobel Prize winner. We are an… — J Paul Austin Copy Share Image
“English does not distinguish between arrogant-up (irreverence toward the temporarily powerful) and arrogant-down (directed at the small guy).” — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
Southerners are the more lonely and spiritually estranged, I think, because we have lived so long in an artificial social system that… — Carson McCullers Copy Share Image
Civilization is not a spontaneous generation with any race or nation known to history, but the torch is handed down from race… — Kelly Miller Copy Share Image
“Forget the world, forget civilization, forget all those pompous ideas of progress and global goals, simply take a stand in your vicinity,… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
"Marginalized others" have access to other ways of knowing, and therefore to deeper, more authentic truths about human reality. They can share… — Christina Hoff Sommers Copy Share Image
White Privilege is the other side of racism. Unless we name it, we are in danger of wallowing in guilt or moral… — Paula Rothenberg Copy Share Image
“They do not expect that the free right to vote, to enjoy civic rights, and to be educated, will come in a… — W.E.B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
“But artists aren’t the only marginalized folks controlling real estate. Think about the colonizing role that wealthy white gay men have played… — bell hooks Copy Share Image
Prejudice ... is a subjective emotion which expresses itself upon others only because of an inner necessity for release. The object is… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
I think the invitation offered the non-black reader is to join us in this expression of our familiarity and via that joining,… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
“An SDS radical once wrote, “The issue is never the issue. The issue is always the revolution.” In other words the cause… — David Horowitz Copy Share Image
“I am talking about self absorbtion. If you think about it, the human race is pretty self absorbed. Racism might be the… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image