Justify Quote by Manisha Sinha

Racism, xenophobia and unfair discrimination have spawned slavery, when human beings have bought and sold and owned and branded fellow human beings as if…

— Desmond Tutu

Slavery was not born of racism; rather, racism was the consequence of slavery.

— Eric Williams

As an African American woman and the descendant of slaves, I do not condone any form of racism or oppression. I most certainly do…

— Phaedra Parks

Racism is a way to gain economic advantage at the expense of others. Slavery and plantations may be gone, but racism still allows us…

— Alveda King

“slavery was a worldwide institution, entrenched on every inhabited continent, subjugating people of every color, language, and religion,”

— Thomas Sowell

To be a slaveholder meant one had to regard the African American as inferior in every way.

— Stephen Ambrose

The legacy of slavery comes from the sustained political, legal and economic effort to link permanently an entire group of people to poverty -…

— Sarah Churchwell

“Slave masters thought they were making a difference in black people’s lives too. Saving them from their “wild African ways.”

— Angie Thomas

Racism does not limit itself to biology or economics or psychology or metaphysics; it attacks along many fronts and in many forms, deploying whatever…

— Albert Memmi

Racism is a belief system. It was assembled over centuries from many component parts - bits of biblical scripture, the propaganda of the slave-owning…

— David Olusoga

Young black men in America have an identity ascribed to them that is a direct legacy of slavery.

— Henry Giroux

“American slavery was specifically racist slavery. It could not exist apart from racism, and could not be separated from it. Slavery was a massive…

— Joel McDurmon