Black people Quote by Ibram X. Kendi

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

— 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

“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

“In a racist society it is not enough to be non-racist, we must be anti-racist.”

— Angela Y. Davis

“African-Americans are just as likely to harbor racist attitudes as white people.”

— Ben Carson

“Whenever a Black person or group used White people as a standard of measurement, and cast another Black person or group as inferior, it…

— Ibram X. Kendi

“Sentiments that glorify humanity know no racial distinction.”

— Abhijit Naskar

“Today it is perfectly legal to discriminate against criminals in nearly all the ways that it was once legal to discriminate against African Americans.”

— Michelle Alexander

“That is what it truly means to think as an antiracist: to think there is nothing wrong with Black people, to think that racial…

— Ibram X. Kendi

“invidious is the fact that those ideas about African Americans are unfair and socially debilitating. Some”

— John Corvino

“If Blacks did not violently resist, then they were cast as naturally servile. And yet, whenever they did fight, reactionary commentators, in both North…

— Ibram X. Kendi

“It speaks volumes when people who are discriminated against go on to discriminate against others.”

— DaShanne Stokes