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...
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...
They tell us race is an invention, that there is no genetic variation between two black people than there is between a black person and a white person. Then they tell us black people have a worse kind...
Bigotry and sexism destroy the unity needed for a nation to live.
We live in a nation of pigs and murderers.
We were laughing but I know that we were afraid of those who loved us most. Our parents resorted to the lash the way flagellants in the plague years resorted to the scourge… The law did not protect us...
Racist legacy laws and modern racist practices are all part of the same system, and it needs to be changed now.
There is nothing 'honorable' or 'reasonable' in giving a pass to those who want to discriminate.
Standing against discrimination for some while supporting discrimination against others hurts us all.
Whites saying 'make America white again' is like millionaires saying 'make the wealthy rich again.
When I walk in, they may like me or dislike me, but everybody knows I'm here
Segmentation was wrong when it was forced by white people, and I believe it is still wrong when it is requested by black people.
I recollect once of having heard a gentleman from one of the northern States, of great power and ability, announce in the House of Representatives, with imposing effect, that we of the South would be...
It's hard to imagine hate that I am facing from allover the world yet I am not alone with mistakes.
I once listened to a woman describe a group of men marching toward her house with sticks lit afire, screaming things like 'git the nigger' and 'kill the nigger bitch.' Those tiki torches weren't about...
It comforts everybody to think of all Negroes as dirt poor, and to regard those who were not, who earned good money and kept it, as some kind of shameful miracle. White people liked that idea because...
Privilege is presuming to speak for others you know nothing about.
They are simple people, most of them, but that doesn't make them subhuman.You are telling them Jesus loves them, but not much.
A separate society within America would depend on the mechanisms of American wealth creation, and wealth in America has never been created in absence of government policy, of banks willing to lend and...
America's indispensable working class existed as property beyond the realm of politics, leaving white Americans free to trumpet their love of freedom and democratic values.
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