Time Quote by Jonathan Thomas Stratman

“We don't have to be aware of racism in order for it to exist.”

— Robin DiAngelo

“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

“Frankly speaking, for generations of Americans, racist ideas have been their common sense.”

— Ibram X. Kendi

“Yes it is true . . . America is a racist country.”

— Michael Eric Dyson

“At times we are the worst racist enemies of our black selves.”

— Gloria D. Gonsalves

“Racism is so universal in this country, so widespread, and deep-seated, that it is invisible because it is so normal.”

— Shirley Chisholm

“In a racist society it is not enough to be non-racist, we must be anti-racist.”

— Angela Y. Davis

“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

“All that is really necessary to hate someone is not to give a shit about what happens to him. And when we don’t give…

— Peter K. Fallon

“Whether or not any of us become racists is a choice we make. And we are called to choose again and again where we…

— bell hooks

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

— Drew Blanche

“In American, the history of racism is taught like this: 'There was slavery and then there was Jim Crow and then there was Martin…

— Trevor Noah