First place Quote by 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

“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

“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

“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

“For nearly six centuries, antiracist ideas have been pitted against two kinds of racist ideas: segregationist and assimilationist.”

— Ibram X. Kendi

“Publishing in an academic journal doesn’t do anything to dispel racist ideas.”

— Stefan Klein

“Several of the intellectual barriers erected many years ago to combat racism now stand in the way of studying the recent evolutionary past. These…

— Nicholas Wade

“This is the consistent function of racist ideas—and of any kind of bigotry more broadly: to manipulate us into seeing people as the problem,…

— Ibram X. Kendi

Unfortunately, racism is not confined to our history books.

— Kevin Faulconer

Let's teach all of our history, the good and the bad. Let's not run from it - let's run to it. But let's not…

— Glenn Youngkin

“In American, the history of racism is taught like this: 'There was slavery and then there was Jim Crow and then there was Martin…

— Trevor Noah

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

— Ibram X. Kendi