Collective consciousness Quote by Angela Davis

“To justify such direct forms of imperialism and oppression, whites developed the IDEA of whiteness to define a privileged social category elevated above everyone…

— Allan G. Johnson

“The white world was tearing itself to pieces. White solidarity was riven and shattered. And—fear of white power and respect for white civilization together…

— T. Lothrop Stoddard

“Oppression is domesticating. The gravest obstacle to the achievement of liberation is that oppressive reality absorbs those within it and thereby acts to submerge…

— Paulo Freire

“An old radical idea, 'Black and white, unite and fight', was about to come into its own.”

— B.J. Widick

“Racial identity can be condemned, fought, ignored, or cultivated, but it is unrealistic for a society to pretend it does not exist.”

— Jared Taylor

“so absorbed is the white world with its domestic dissensions that it pays scant heed to racial problems whose importance for the future of…

— T. Lothrop Stoddard

“As Black people, if there is one thing we can learn from the 60s, it is how infinitely complex any move for liberation must…

— Audre Lorde

“Ideas at first considered outrageous or ridiculous or extreme gradually become what people think they've always believed. How the transformation happened is rarely remembered,…

— Rebecca Solnit

“Part the curtains of society’s racial, ethnic, religious, national, and cultural conflicts, and you find the human ego turning the knobs and pulling the…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

“Those who thought of collaboration in simplistic terms could not comprehend the reality of trying to survive in an uncivilized, unstable environment in which…

— Lynne Olson

“Politically progressive black people on the Left who are not nationalist, like myself, share a perspective that promotes the eradication of white supremacy, the…

— bell hooks

“Even in the face of powerful structures of domination, it remains possible for each of us, especially those of us who are members of…

— bell hooks