America Quote by Michelle Alexander

Human life is important and it feels like there is not a concern in communities of color. Very frustrated, but we will never give…

— Martin Luther King III

Controlling for all the things that sociologists, economists, and political scientists say you should control for, we find that what drives one's views [most…

— Michael C Dawson

Until we address the pervasive structural and interpersonal threats facing communities of color, we will remain unequipped to make equity a reality.

— Wayne Messam

Racism is systemic: It's oppression that's built into the laws, legislation, into the way neighborhoods are policed, and into job opportunities and health care…

— Justin Simien

Sometimes people of color walk into these spaces that are dominated by the dominant culture, and we have to be better, not make as…

— Tanya Saracho

We are in a social and political context in which the norm is to punish poor folks of color rather than to educate and…

— Michelle Alexander

To operate with the aspiration of color-blindness in a country whose central operating mechanism for centuries has been race belies the logic of race-neutral…

— Clint Smith

Racist societies enforce the idea of race as home by making race an inescapable fate.

— Shelby Steele

Too often, the very institutions that are supposed to protect and serve our community have instead failed people of color, specifically our black community.

— Ted Wheeler

You get racism crossing the street; it's in the very fabric of American society.

— Nina Simone

The system functioned relatively automatically, and the prevailing system of racial meanings, identities, and ideologies already seemed natural. Ninety percent of those admitted to…

— Michelle Alexander

Although racism does, of course, occur in individual acts, these acts are part of a larger system that we all participate in. The focus…

— Robin DiAngelo