Quote by Ibram X. Kendi

“A group we can call segregationists has blamed Black people themselves for the racial disparities. A group we can call antiracists has pointed to…

— Ibram X. Kendi

“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

“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

“assimilationists constantly encourage Black adoption of White cultural traits and/or physical ideals.”

— Ibram X. Kendi

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

— Ibram X. Kendi

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

— Ibram X. Kendi

“Overt bigotry, Jim Crow laws and policies, government-mandated discrimination, and the belief in black inferiority have virtually disappeared. Laissez-faire racism, instead, involves persistent negative…

— Thomas Shapiro

I never held Negroes to be inherently inferior. The statement in Marriage and Morals refers to environmental conditioning. I have had it withdrawn from…

— Bertrand Russell

I advance it therefore as a suspicion only, that the blacks, whether originally a distinct race, or made distinct by time and circumstances, are…

— Thomas Jefferson

“...[T]hat combination of inferior status and derogatory thought [is what] we call racism.”

— Howard Zinn

I advance it therefore as a suspicion only, that the blacks, whether originally a distinct race, or made distinctby time and circumstances, are inferior…

— Thomas Jefferson