Racism Quote by Reni Eddo-Lodge Download Open image ““Every voice raised against racism chips away at its power. We can't afford to stay silent.”” — Reni Eddo-Lodge ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Racism Resistence Speaking out Stay Silent
“Moving from silence into speech is for the oppressed, the colonized, the exploited, and those who stand and struggle side by side a gesture… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
“whites called in from around the country to say they were afraid to disagree with a black person for fear of being thought racist.” — Jared Taylor Copy Share Image
“Try listening, maybe. Hear what is being said. And remember that it’s not about you. American Blacks are not telling you that you are… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
“Publicly inconsolable about the fact that racism continues, these activists seem privately terrified that it has abated.” — Dinesh D'Souza Copy Share Image
“Your voice can be made loud to speak against ungodliness and injustice and not promote it.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
“Frankly speaking, for generations of Americans, racist ideas have been their common sense.” — Ibram X. Kendi Copy Share Image
“Speak because your voice is currency, and their comfort isn't worth your silence.” — Rudy Francisco Copy Share Image
“Children who have been silenced often enough learn not to talk about race publicly. Their questions don’t go away, they just go unasked.” — Beverly Daniel Tatum Copy Share Image
“Racism is nothing more than a philosophy created to cover up FEAR and replace it with superiority.” — Rashaad Lee Copy Share Image
“To be white is to be human; to be white is universal. I only know this because I am not.” — Reni Eddo-Lodge Copy Share Image
“It's clear that equality doesn't quite cut it. Asking for a sliver of disproportionate power is too polite a request. I don't want to… — Reni Eddo-Lodge Copy Share Image
“The idea of white privilege forces white people who aren’t actively racist to confront their own complicity in its continuing existence. White privilege is… — Reni Eddo-Lodge Copy Share Image
“If feminism can understand the patriarchy, it's important to question why so many feminists struggle to understand whiteness as a political structure in the… — Reni Eddo-Lodge Copy Share Image
“The journey towards understanding structural racism still requires people of colour to prioritise white feelings. Even if they can hear you, they’re not really… — Reni Eddo-Lodge Copy Share Image
“The mess we are living in is a deliberate one. If it was created by people, it can be dismantled by people, and it… — Reni Eddo-Lodge Copy Share Image
“The journey towards understanding structural racism still requires people of colour to prioritise white feelings.” — Reni Eddo-Lodge Copy Share Image
“Some start boycotting halal meat on cruelty grounds, as though there are varying degrees of acceptable animal death they'll withstand for the benefit of… — Reni Eddo-Lodge Copy Share Image
“Demands for equality need to be as complicated as the inequalities they seek to address.” — Reni Eddo-Lodge Copy Share Image
“Not displaying anger wasn’t going to stop me being labelled as angry, so I thought: fuck it. I decided to speak my mind. The… — Reni Eddo-Lodge Copy Share Image
“White privilege is an absence of the consequences of racism. An absence of structural discrimination, an absence of your race being viewed as a… — Reni Eddo-Lodge Copy Share Image
Race is the idea that a human being is more superior than another human being, race in society grants illusional rights to mistreat each… — Jeremy Limn Copy Share Image
The image of blacks usually is one of people who are suffering from hunger, unemployment, and poverty. The idea of them as agents and… — Grace Lee Boggs Copy Share Image
If I had to guess and put a name on it, I'd say that at some point, the drug war was as much a… — David Simon Copy Share Image
If my child had prejudice in his head, I'd be ashamed. I would see it as my failure as a parent. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but with creatures bristling with prejudice and motivated by pride and… — Dale Carnegie Copy Share Image
We have to build our own power. We have to win every single political office we can, where we have a majority of black… — Fannie Lou Hamer Copy Share Image
Racism is a cancer. You cannot ignore it and it'll go away. If you ignore cancer, it simply metastasizes and consumes the whole body. — Daryl Davis Copy Share Image
The color of somebody's skin or the way he wears his hair or clothes has nothing to do with anything. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Well, I've been politically involved for a really long time. Growing up in the segregated South, it was a very painful experience for me… — Cybill Shepherd Copy Share Image
This is, for an accomplished Latino, an accomplished African American, an accomplished anyone who disproves stereotypes, it's a constant battle in your life. — Sonia Sotomayor Copy Share Image
Caught in a racial uproar, people make all sorts of promises to make amends. Whatever they do tends to be heavy on symbolism and… — Jonathan Capehart Copy Share Image
I hate prejudice on any level. I don't care if it's somebody being discriminated against because of the color of their skin or their… — Charlamagne tha God Copy Share Image