Black Quote by Barack Obama

Eyes is the attempt to tell the story of the Civil Rights movement and to create an emotional, intellectual constituency. But what do you…

— Henry Hampton

“Equal protection under the law is not a hard principle to convince Americans of. The difficulty comes in persuading them that it has been…

— Mark Lilla

“Seeing race is not the problem. Refusing to care for the people we see is the problem. The fact that the meaning of race…

— Michelle Alexander

“Empathy must be cultivated. The practice of empathy means taking a moment to imagine how you might behave if you were in our positions.…

— Michael Eric Dyson

Black people have been killed for directing their gaze at the wrong person. I want my subjects to reclaim their right to look, to…

— Dawoud Bey

The problem of empathy is pretty universal, and pretty much breaks down across America. People can't feel beyond their drawn borders. And skin color…

— Karan Mahajan

“It is particularly important for white Americans to approach this subject matter with the right goals in mind. Our goal must be sight, transformation,…

— Daniel Hill

As someone who is both an ethnic minority and openly gay, I often talk about how simply being who I am has given me…

— Mark Takano

“It’s the same problem we struggle with when it comes to marginalizing our privilege, power, or position as we focus on the voices and…

— Richard Beck

“And, practicing “radical empathy” means more than trying to reach across divides of race, class, and politics, and building bridges between communities. We have…

— Hillary Rodham Clinton

We have to launch a national campaign against homophobia in the black community,

— Coretta Scott King

“We can move in that direction as a country, in greater polarization - black people amongst blacks, and white amongst whites, filled with hatred…

— Robert F. Kennedy