We are here to work side-by-side with this "black" man in trying to bring liberation to all our people! — Fannie Lou Hamer Copy Share Image
Racism - whether it's in football or society, there's absolutely no place for it. — Brendan Rodgers Copy Share Image
It was because of race that we didnt care much what happened to those people and imagined the worst possible things about… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
Race baiters and discriminators may go underground, but they never move out of town. — Dick Gregory Copy Share Image
In fact, the class divide in the black community is now seen by some as a permanent aspect of our existence. — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
Martin Luther King, Jr. didn't carry just a piece of cloth to symbolize his belief in racial equality; he carried the American… — Adrian Cronauer Copy Share Image
Every so often, progress on race and religion occur precisely because an issue surfaces. — Pritam Singh Copy Share Image
“You can be in the race but unless you finish one might say the race wasn't in you.” — Brent M. Jones Copy Share Image
Too many of our prejudices are like pyramids upside down. They rest on tiny, trivial incidents, but they spread upward and outward… — William McChesney Martin Copy Share Image
“They walked off down the hall in the direction of a sign that said Colored Waiting Room. Billie guessed white folks didn't… — Elaine Hussey Copy Share Image
There is nothing stronger than human prejudice. A crazy sentimentalism, like that of Peter the Hermit, hurled half of Europe upon Asia,… — Wendell Phillips Copy Share Image
I have a theory. An audience doesn't need to get wrapped up in blackness every time they see a Negro actor. And… — Jim Brown Copy Share Image
The rage of someone who continues to strive so hard and work so hard but is interrupted every day by society, by… — Wunmi Mosaku Copy Share Image
“United States... on the one hand this is a country of egalitarian promise, a land of opportunity for millions of immigrants of… — Thomas Piketty Copy Share Image
Racial identity is chosen and given. It is as much a product of the world's perception of you as it is of… — Ritchie Torres Copy Share Image
So white guilt is not a guilt of conscience; it's not something that you get up in the morning and say, my… — Shelby Steele Copy Share Image
“Then it occurred to her (Elizabeth Keckley) that if Tad (Lincoln’s son) had been a colored boy rather than the son of… — Jennifer Chiaverini Copy Share Image
And if we are to open employment opportunities in this country for members of all races and creeds, then the Federal Government… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
With Black Lives Matter, we knew from the very beginning that it wasn't just going to live online. We were like, 'We're… — Patrisse Cullors Copy Share Image
“We are not past racism. It took us 500 and however many years to get us where we are; it's not gonna… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“White people in his experience were far more transparent. The most hateful rarely bothered to conceal their hostility, and when for some… — Matt Ruff Copy Share Image
Government cannot make us equal; it can only recognize, respect, and protect us as equal before the law. That [affirmative action] programs… — Clarence Thomas Copy Share Image
“It is well known, that, in all questions submitted to the understanding, prejudice is destructive of sound judgment, and perverts all operations… — David Hume Copy Share Image
We blacks look for leadership in men and women of such youth and inexperience, as well as poverty of education and character,… — Arthur Ashe Copy Share Image
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