Commitment Quote by Christopher Dodd

I think racial justice - and addressing the sick and enduring legacy of structural racism - remains one of the greatest challenges of our…

— Sally Kohn

To have one's race brutally treated for so many years, even after the end of slavery and segregation, people are going to rise up…

— Assata Shakur

“We have a racially based justice system that overpunishes, fails to rehabilitate, and doesn't make us safer.”

— Piper Kerman

I believe that this nation can only heal from the wounds of racism if we all begin to love blackness. And by that I…

— Bell Hooks

Attempts to minimize the deep racial wounds in our history only set our society as a whole back.

— Wayne Messam

the solution to racism lies in our ability to see its ubiquity but not to concede its inevitability. It lies in the collective and…

— Patricia J. Williams

We need to rebuild our nation with a new foundation. A foundation rooted in love, and care, and equality. Where justice is truly real…

— Jamaal Bowman

The patterns have become unmistakable and undeniable. ... We have to come to terms with some hard truths about race and justice in America.

— Hillary Clinton

Certainly we can end racism with love. We can demand that the federal government change its emphasis on racial distinction.

— bell hooks

We have to deal with the way that race influences our criminal justice system.

— Yance Ford

To even envision a post-racist society is contingent upon understanding the offensive, dense, and wildly contradictory nature of our racist past and present. Racechanges…

— Gayle Pemberton

I think it's gonna take a sincere empathy and compassion for people of all races, to really reflect and process on the true history…

— Erik Spoelstra