Racism Quote by Ibram X. Kendi Download Open image ““Racists confessing to their crimes is not in their self-interest.”” — Ibram X. Kendi ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.0 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Racism
“So what do you do if you are imprisoned for your race and ethnicity? The message is, Those are your crimes.” — Sun Yung Shin Copy Share Image
“wrapping their ideas in goodness, segregationists and assimilationists have rarely confessed to their racist public policies and ideas.” — Ibram X. Kendi Copy Share Image
“White people, apparently, were not responsible for their own racist mentalities.” — Ibram X. Kendi Copy Share Image
“I would be guilty only if I were innocent of working to destroy racism in my country.” — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
“Beyond my failings as a racist, I knew I was not wanted in the South. When people are engaged in something they are not… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“dismiss white people as the slightly mad victims of their own brainwashing. One watched the lives they led. One could not be fooled about… — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
“I would guess, perhaps too optimistically, that nearly ever racist believes it is morally wrong to be racist. And since nearly every person thinks… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
“In matters of crime, where there is danger for the culprit, it is self-interest that dictates confessions; where the offence incurs no penalty, it… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“In a racist society it is not enough to be non-racist, we must be anti-racist.” — Angela Y. Davis Copy Share Image
“He never denied it. He never did anything. He never acted like either a nigger or a white man. That was it. That was… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“All this because one race did not have the decency to be ashamed of dealing in human flesh.” — Whitney Otto Copy Share Image
“When men oppress their fellowmen, the oppressor ever finds, in the character of the oppressed, a full justification for his oppression.” — Ibram X. Kendi Copy Share Image
“assimilationists constantly encourage Black adoption of White cultural traits and/or physical ideals.” — Ibram X. Kendi Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“newspaper reports of rape constructed white defendants as individual offenders and black defendants as representative of the failings of their racial group,” — Ibram X. Kendi Copy Share Image
“Donald Trump’s economic policies are geared toward enriching White male power—but at the expense of most of his White male followers, along with the… — Ibram X. Kendi Copy Share Image
“individualizing White negativity and generalizing Black negativity.” — Ibram X. Kendi Copy Share Image
“Racially discriminatory policies have usually sprung from economic, political, and cultural self-interests, self-interests that are constantly changing. Politicians seeking higher office have primarily created and defended discriminatory policies out of political self-interest—not racist ideas. Capitalists seeking to increase profit margins have primarily created and defended discriminatory policies out of economic self-interest—not racist ideas. Cultural professionals, including theologians, artists, scholars, and… — Ibram X. Kendi Copy Share
“The vicious housing cycle had already begun. Racist policies harmed Black neighborhoods, generating racist ideas that caused people not to want to live next… — Ibram X. Kendi Copy Share Image
“For Jefferson, power came before freedom. Indeed, power creates freedom, not the other way around—as the powerless are taught.” — Ibram X. Kendi Copy Share Image
Race is the idea that a human being is more superior than another human being, race in society grants illusional rights to mistreat each… — Jeremy Limn Copy Share Image
If I had to guess and put a name on it, I'd say that at some point, the drug war was as much a… — David Simon Copy Share Image
If my child had prejudice in his head, I'd be ashamed. I would see it as my failure as a parent. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but with creatures bristling with prejudice and motivated by pride and… — Dale Carnegie Copy Share Image
Racism is a cancer. You cannot ignore it and it'll go away. If you ignore cancer, it simply metastasizes and consumes the whole body. — Daryl Davis Copy Share Image
Well, I've been politically involved for a really long time. Growing up in the segregated South, it was a very painful experience for me… — Cybill Shepherd Copy Share Image
Caught in a racial uproar, people make all sorts of promises to make amends. Whatever they do tends to be heavy on symbolism and… — Jonathan Capehart Copy Share Image
I hate prejudice on any level. I don't care if it's somebody being discriminated against because of the color of their skin or their… — Charlamagne tha God Copy Share Image
Black Privilege is a concrete motive that black people benefit from, such as racism but racism on whites. Black people don't know it but their privilege is far more powerful than anything in the world. It oppresses whites with hate crimes, racial cruelty, and inequality. Black people get everything handed to them in life but not whites, they have to… — Anonymous Copy Share
If you do a black character or a female character or an Asian character, then they aren't just that character. They represent that race or that sex, and they can't be interesting because everything they do has to represent an entire block of people. You know, Superman isn't all white people and neither is Lex Luthor. We knew we had… — Dwayne McDuffie Copy Share
I felt pretty good growing up. I didnt feel a lot of prejudice or racism. But I do remember, if there was going to be a movie or a television show with Asian characters, I would go out of my way to avoid them, because they portrayed all Asians as either ridiculously good or ridiculously bad; you know, the whole… — David Henry Hwang Copy Share
Black women's intersectional experiences of racism and sexism have been a central but forgotten dynamic in the unfolding of feminist and antiracist agendas. — Kimberle Williams Crenshaw Copy Share Image
