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“The focus on the Klan also helped to designate racism as an individual aberration rather than something systemic, institutional, and pervasive.12”

— Carol Anderson

In my opinion while lynchings were quite possibly the most heinous crimes ever witnessed in American history, they helped in bringing people together for…

— Assata Shakur

All of you are aware of the tragic history of racism in America, but for a very long time, African-Americans and their white allies…

— Bernie Sanders

We still have to struggle against the impact of racism, but it doesn't happen in the same way. I think it is much more…

— Angela Davis

I think for folks of color the key to combatting racism period is a) trusting their instincts and b) solidarity with one another.

— Tim Wise

We've simply been putting Band-Aids on the wounds of racism. We haven't drilled down to the bone to get to its source.

— Daryl Davis

“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

I regard the Klan, the Anglo-Saxon clubs and White American societies, as far as the Negro is concerned, as better friends of the race…

— Marcus Garvey

I've gotten a firsthand view at the destruction that black men and black women not being able to stay and build healthy relationships has…

— Hill Harper

There is a natural disgust in the minds of nearly all white people to the idea of indiscriminate amalgamation of the white and black…

— Abraham Lincoln

Many thought that the abolition of slavery, the end of Jim Crow, and the legislative progress of the Civil Rights Era, among other watershed…

— Opal Tometi

I think the two issues, racism and chauvinism, are linked. Look at how much weaker was support for U.S. actions in Iraq among black…

— Michael Yates