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The way you start to break down systemic racism is to start building individual relationships with people who are not like you.

— Killer Mike

Nobody should be treated any type of way because of their color, their race, their gender, their socioeconomic status. We're all human.

— Tyron Woodley

Racism springs from the lie that certain human beings are less than fully human. It's a self-centered falsehood that corrupts our minds into believing…

— Alveda King

Why should racism go away when we are not tackling it in the right way? We are influenced by what we see in the…

— John Barnes

Those of us who experience racism cannot, and should not, internalize it, despite the impact that it can have on our everyday lives. We…

— Linda Thomas-Greenfield

Although racism does, of course, occur in individual acts, these acts are part of a larger system that we all participate in. The focus…

— Robin DiAngelo

Racism should be viewed as an intervening variable. You give me a set of conditions and I can produce racism in any society. You…

— William Julius Wilson

In my head, racism was an issue that needed to be fixed by the racists. Like you needed to convince that person one at…

— Wunmi Mosaku

It is no longer socially permissible to use race, explicitly, as a justification for discrimination, exclusion, and social contempt. So we don't. Rather than…

— Michelle Alexander

In order to spur progress, we all need to be people who point out and shine a spotlight on racism wherever we see it.…

— Joe Thomas

Racism is a blight on the human conscience. The idea that any people can be inferior to another, to the point where those who…

— Nelson Mandela

We need to make sure that we have an honest, honest conversation and that we engage honest practices around how racism operates in this…

— Alicia Garza