Cannot Quote by Robin DiAngelo

Racism has two primary functions: the oppression of people of color, which most people recognize, but also the simultaneous elevation of white people. You…

— Robin DiAngelo

Racism is a system of power and in the absence of power you cannot be considered a racist.

— Sister Souljah

Racism remains in the eyes of history ... merely another instance of the persecution of minorities for the advantage of those in power.

— Ruth Benedict

Racism is simply an ugly form of collectivism, the mindset that views humans strictly as members of groups rather than individuals.

— Ron Paul

“Institutional neglect of racism and injustice is the exercise of power, the kind of power that refuses to notice and refuses to speak.”

— Jeff Chang

I was taught to see racism only in individual acts of meanness, not in invisible systems conferring dominance on my group

— Peggy McIntosh

The social pressure from friend and acquaintance to collude, to not notice racism, can be quite powerful.

— Beverly Daniel Tatum

“The belief in the power of "institutional racism" allows black civil rights leaders to denounce America as a "racist" society, when it is the…

— David Horowitz

Racism is an attack on the very notion of the universality of human rights. It systematically denies certain people the enjoyment of their full…

— Irene Khan

This is one of the most effective adaptations of racism over time - that we can think of racism as only something that individuals…

— Robin DiAngelo

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 the belief that social and cultural differences between groups are inherited and immutable, making some groups inalterably superior to others.”

— Carl Hart