Capable Quote by H. L. Mencken

To a considerable degree, all minority groups suffer from the same state of marginality with its haunting consequences of insecurity, conflict, and irritation.

— Gordon W. Allport

The vast majority of the race whether savage or civilized, are secretly kind at heart and shrink from inflicting pain, but in the presence…

— Mark Twain

What characterizes a member of a minority group is that he is forced to see himself as both exceptional and insignificant, marvelous and awful,…

— Norman Mailer

Racism is the dogma that one ethnic group is condemned by nature to congenital inferiority and another group is destined to congenital superiority.

— Ruth Benedict

The system of racial classification is fiction, and we need to thoughtfully evaluate whether perpetuating it rigidly or allowing fluidity across the spectrum best…

— Rachel Dolezal

“Regardless of how people divide people by color, social code, and category, the equality of one human being to the next (civilized or otherwise)…

— Tracey Bond

I don't think people understand the model-minority stereotype is negative. You are boxed in. You have to untangle that to find your own path.

— Eddie Huang

Intolerance of groups is often, strangely enough, exhibited more strongly against small differences than against fundamental ones.

— Sigmund Freud

The civility of no race can be perfect whilst another race is degraded. It is a doctrine alike of the oldest and of the…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

A society struggles to fulfill its best instincts, even as an individual does, and generally makes just as hard going of it. The fight…

— Margaret Halsey

There is one group that is more consistently portrayed as ineffectual, as unvirtuous, as incompetent, as objects of fun, and that is white working…

— Charles Murray

Any time I saw people treated unfairly because of race, creed, whatever - it struck a nerve.

— Robert Redford