Hope 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

“wrapping their ideas in goodness, segregationists and assimilationists have rarely confessed to their racist public policies and ideas.”

— Ibram X. Kendi

“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

“The liberal philosophy of race relations emphasized the stigma of segregation and the hypocrisy of a government that celebrates freedom and equality yet denies…

— Michelle Alexander

“An anti-racist person is on a life-long journey that includes forming new understanding of and ways to live her or his racial identity and…

— Louise Derman-Sparks

“But there’s an even harder truth to accept: The kind of growth required to move past race is nearly impossible to achieve because racism…

— Phoebe Robinson

“the soon-to-be first president sounded one of the first drumbeats of supposed racial progress to drown out the passionate arguments of antiracism.10 Thomas”

— Ibram X. Kendi

“People existed, however, who believed that closet racist were everywhere around them. They needed to believe this in order to have prupose and meaning…

— Dean Koontz

“Let us all hope that the dark clouds of racial prejudice will soon pass away and the deep fog of misunderstanding will be lifted…

— Martin Luther King Jr

“Race is neither an essence nor an illusion, but rather an ongoing, contradictory, self-reinforcing process subject to the macro forces of social and political…

— Ian F. Haney López

“Racism exists in the mind, not the heart.”

— Drew Blanche