Buddhism Quote by Ibram X. Kendi

“Even the great thinkers of the Enlightenment, with their commitment to reason, failed to recognize the ways they stereotyped others.”

— Phyllis Goldstein

“Enlightenment ideas gave legitimacy to this long-held racist “partiality,” the connection between lightness and Whiteness and reason, on the one hand, and between darkness…

— Ibram X. Kendi

“Afterward, White abolitionists would say to him, “Give us the facts, we will take care of the philosophy.”

— Ibram X. Kendi

“The Enlightenment was not a revolutionary movement; it was not even a political movement. It was a collection of scholars, writers, artists and historians…

— John Hirst

“The confines of enslavement were producing Black people who were intellectually, psychologically, culturally, and behaviorally different, not inferior. Benjamin”

— Ibram X. Kendi

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

— Ibram X. Kendi

“Enlightenment is not only the end of suffering and of continuous conflict within and without, but also the end of the dreadful enslavement to…

— Eckhart Tolle

“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 over Revolutionary America, African people were rejecting the racist compact that asserted that they were meant to be enslaved.16”

— Ibram X. Kendi

“Enlightenment is not only the end of suffering and of continuous conflict within and without, but also the end of the dreadful enslavement to…

— Eckhart Tolle

“The contemporary Enlightenment world prides itself on its commitment to equality and justice, its open-mindedness, its making opportunity available to all, and its achievements…

— Stephen R.C. Hicks

“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