Bigotry is based on deception, of oneself and of others.
Prejudice plunges you into a world of fear and hate. That's no way to live.
I can hear you say, What a horrible, irresponsible bastard! And you're right. I leap to agree with you. I am one of the most irresponsible beings that ever lived. Irresponsibility is part of my invisi...
There's "good" in all things. You just have to find it.
I feel that for white America to understand the significance of the problem of the Negro will take a bigger and tougher America than any we have yet known. I feel that America's past is too shallow, h...
Never be content to sit back and watch as others' rights are trampled upon. Your rights could be next.
Bigotry and sexism destroy the unity needed for a nation to live.
There is nothing 'honorable' or 'reasonable' in giving a pass to those who want to discriminate.
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.
[whiteness] has no real meaning divorced from the machinery of criminal power. The new people were something else before they were white—Catholic, Corsican, Welsh, Mennonite, Jewish—and if all our nat...
That invisibility to which I refer occurs because of a peculiar disposition of the eyes of those with whom I come in contact. A matter of the construction of their INNER eyes, those eyes with which th...
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...
It's not 'over-sensitivity' to ask to be treated with the same dignity and respect shown to others.
Then too, you're constantly being bumped against by those of poor vision. Or again, you doubt if you really exist. You wonder whether you aren't simply a phantom in other people's minds. Say, a figure...
If you'd combat bigotry, use honest language and call things out for what they really are.
If origin defines race, then the entire human race is African.
It's a scary world we live in when a person of color endorses a racist for president.
People often call fighting discrimination being 'PC' because they don't want their own unearned privileges challenged.
I do not believe we can stop them, Samori, because they must ultimately stop themselves. And still I urge you to struggle. Struggle for the memory of your ancestors. Struggle for wisdom. Struggle for...