Racism is dead only to those who've closed their eyes and ears to the whole world around them.
The minute we look away, the minute we stop fighting back, that's the minute bigotry wins.
Bigotry is based on deception, of oneself and of others.
Discrimination does not 'make America great.' It makes America weak.
If you'd combat bigotry, use honest language and call things out for what they really are.
Divided we are as people but if we stand together and fight we as a race will unite.
In this town, white politicians and black ministers seemed to go together like tears and tissues. At election time, the pols got religion and came looking for the blessings of black ministers as a way...
If origin defines race, then the entire human race is African.
In my quest to find Green Cottenham, I also discovered an unsettling truth that when white Americans frankly peel back the layers of our commingled pasts, we are all marked by it. Whether a company or...
Racism hurts everyone, including racists themselves.
We must tell the world that even though we elected a bigot, bigotry will not prevail.
People often call fighting discrimination being 'PC' because they don't want their own unearned privileges challenged.
It speaks volumes when people who are discriminated against go on to discriminate against others.
In the treatment of poverty nationally, one fact stands out: there are twice as many white poor as Negro poor in the United States. Therefore I will not dwell on the experiences of poverty that derive...
Bigots often like to say they're the ones being hurt as they oppress and hurt others. Never fall for the 'pity the privileged' routine.
I sold my elegant blackness to all those childhood ghosts and now they pay me for it.
What matter most is to complete the journey.
That's what a man is supposed to do for his wife. Listen, if a nigger didn't get lynched every now and then, well, there's just no telling what they'd do to us.Who? Lily asked.Why, honey, the niggers...
That summer, in any case, all the fears with which I had grown up, and which were now a part of me and controlled my vision of the world, rose up like a wall between the world and me, and drove me int...
Should assaulting an officer of the state be a capital offense, rendered without trial, with the officer as judge and executioner? Is that what we wish civilization to be?
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