Top Race And Racism In America Quotes

Urging an organization to be inclusive is not an attack. It's progress.

Calling for an end to hate shouldn't be treated as a punishable offense.

When you've grown up mis-educated, surrounded by fear and hate, unaware of your privilege, lies can sound like the truth.

The issue, perhaps, boils down to one of how perceptions or misperceptions of racial difference impact various individuals’, or groups of individuals’, experience of freedom in America. Some would arg...

Pride is the problem. Everyone wants to be right so badly they overlook the "rights" of others.

It's not the fact that some people disagree with the protests. That is as much a right as the protests themselves. It is the hateful, profane, condescending way some have expressed their discontent th...

It becomes more and more difficult to avoid the idea of black men as subjects of not just racial profiling but of an insidious form of racial obliteration sanctioned by silence.

If you can't see past my name, you can't see me.

It's because of my grandfather that I became a Young Avenger. But it's hard sometimes, to be a black kid carrying a name like Patriot. I remember talking to Captain America about before he died, and h...

Bigotry lives not just in our words, but in our actions, thoughts, and institutions.

An institution rooted in slavery cannot be the voice of our people.

It was not only colored people who praised John, since they could not, John felt, in any case really know; but white people also said it, in fact had said it first and said it still. It was when John...

Electing a bigot enables further bigotry.

All white people, I think, are implicated in these things so long as we participate in America in a normal way and attempt to go on leading normal lives while any one race is being cheated and torment...

Building bridges takes us further than building walls.

To be fair, I hate the N-word and avoid using it because the N-word has always been a pejorative, a word designed to remind black people of their place, a word to reinforce a perception of inferiority...

Never be content to sit back and watch as others' rights are trampled upon. Your rights could be next.

It's a scary world we live in when a person of color endorses a racist for president.

The minute we look away, the minute we stop fighting back, that's the minute bigotry wins.

Discrimination is discrimination, even when people claim it's 'tradition.