Racism Quote by Ibram X. Kendi

“Both segregationist and assimilationist ideas have been wrapped up in attractive arguments to seem good, and both have made sure to re-wrap antiracist ideas…

— Ibram X. Kendi

“there is, and has always been, a persistent line of antiracist thought in this country, challenging those assimilationist and segregationist lines, and giving the…

— Ibram X. Kendi

“From the beginning, it has been a three-sided battle, a battle of antiracist ideas being pitted against two kinds of racist ideas at the…

— Ibram X. Kendi

“wrapping their ideas in goodness, segregationists and assimilationists have rarely confessed to their racist public policies and ideas.”

— Ibram X. Kendi

“All these self-serving efforts by powerful factions to define their racist rhetoric as nonracist has left Americans thoroughly divided over, and ignorant of, what…

— Ibram X. Kendi

“they refused to define their own assimilationist ideas of Black behavioral inferiority as racist. These assimilationists defined only segregationist ideas of Black biological inferiority…

— Ibram X. Kendi

“When you truly believe that the racial groups are equal, then you also believe that racial disparities must be the result of racial discrimination.…

— Ibram X. Kendi

“I know that readers truly committed to racial equality will join me on this journey of interrogating and shedding our racist ideas. But if…

— Ibram X. Kendi

“if there is anything I have learned during my research, it’s that the principal producers and defenders of racist ideas will not join us.…

— Ibram X. Kendi

“The more antiracist W. E. B. Du Bois became, the more he realized that trying to persuade powerful racists was a waste of time,…

— Ibram X. Kendi

“Hate and ignorance have not driven the history of racist ideas in America. Racist policies have driven the history of racist ideas in America.”

— Ibram X. Kendi

“An anti-racist person is on a life-long journey that includes forming new understanding of and ways to live her or his racial identity and…

— Louise Derman-Sparks