Quote by Ibram X. Kendi Download Open image ““Slavery was as customary as prisons are today. Few could imagine an ordered world without them.”” — Ibram X. Kendi ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“Modern society did not abolish slavery, but only regulated it.” — Dario de Judicibus Copy Share Image
“A few slave holders were undeniably cruel. Examples of slaves beaten to death were not common, neither were they unknown. The majority of slave… — Glen Chambers Copy Share Image
“Even though we are peripheral to the slavery, our action is necessary to overcome a horrific evil.” — Nicholas D. Kristof Copy Share Image
“Modern Slavery is the lack of emancipation from Mental Slavery.” — Dr Ikoghene S Aashikpelokhai Copy Share Image
“Employment is slavery. Workers merely have a choice over where to serve their daily eight-hour sentence.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“There have been, and may be again, great individual thinkers, in a general atmosphere of mental slavery.” — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
“Aren't we all in varying degrees, captives in our own personal prisons, bound by our limiting habits?” — Ruthy Alon Copy Share Image
“Possibly the greatest good requires the existence of a slave class.” — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“For most of the history of civilization, the practice of slavery was the rule rather than the exception.” — Steven Pinker 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… — Ibram X. Kendi Copy Share Image
“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