Barriers Quote by Joe Slovo

The psychological consequences of this spread of white culture have been out of all proportion to the materialistic. This world-wide cultural diffusion has protected…

— Ruth Benedict

“It is not a secret that most American and Western institutions and workplaces are very much like mountains: the higher one climbs, the whiter…

— Louis Yako

The more I consider the condition of the white men, the more fixed becomes my opinion that, instead of gaining, they have lost much…

— Tomochichi

We have not been energetic enough - white people haven't - in pursuing racial equity.

— George Saunders

We've begun to put fear into those whites who think they can do anything they want to a black person and get away with…

— Charles Evers

White people are very wily when it comes to race. We will do everything that we can to get out from under the idea…

— Robin DiAngelo

We cannot hope, then, in this generation, or for several generations, that the mass of the whites can be brought to assume that close…

— W. E. B. Du Bois

Barriers today are largely class-based - income, networks, education. And those affect many white people as well.

— Munira Mirza

White people will have quite enough to do in learning how to accept and love themselves and each other, and when they have achieved…

— James A. Baldwin

“As Alcoff (1998: 18) argues, ‘Racism appears to be deeply sedimented into white psyches in a process that is newly reenforced [sic] each day.’ This”

— Clare Land

White guilt and the fear of speaking up concerning issues of race and morality is costing this nation greatly.

— Jesse Lee Peterson

In the U.S., while individual whites might be against racism, they still benefit from their group's control. Yes, an individual person of color can…

— Robin DiAngelo