History Quote by Ibram X. Kendi

“Ignorance/hateracist ideasdiscrimination: this causal relationship is largely ahistorical. It has actually been the inverse relationship—racial discrimination led to racist ideas which led to ignorance…

— 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

“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

“There was a Race Relations Act, supported by socialists and conservatives alike, which made the incitement of racial hatred a crime but there was…

— Joseph Pearce

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

— Ibram X. Kendi

Critical Race Theory offers of discrimination frameworks as ways of understanding and eradicating racism. The focus on "discrimination" as the way to understand racism…

— Dean Spade

Fear and ignorance are the key roots to racism.

— Timothy Long

Hate cultures are not a thing of the past. They're a continuing problem and one cannot blame presidencies for this. Racism in the U.S.…

— Daryl Davis

“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

“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

Racism springs from ignorance.

— Mario Balotelli

Any concept of one person being superior to another can lead to racism.

— Walter Lang