Top Racism Quotes

Eventually, some black thinkers believe, this separation may be the shortest route to an authentic communication at some future date when blacks and whites can enter into encounters in which they trul...

We have the wolf by the ears; and we can neither hold him, nor safely let him go. Justice is in one scale, and self-preservation in the other.

African-Amendment.

Many races as well as cultural influences of men of all kinds have mixed into any man. To select, for approbation the peculiar elements that come from some supposedly Jewish heredity is to open the do...

We invoke the words of Jefferson and Lincoln because they say something about our legacy and our traditions. We do this because we recognize our links to the past--at least when they flatter us. But b...

Privilege is not knowing that you're hurting others and not listening when they tell you.

What sorts of people dig up a black grandparent and then demand special privileges? What does it mean when these same people spew racist abuse at the rest of their ancestry? What does it signify when...

Americans, unhappily, have the most remarkable ability to alchemize all bitter truths into an innocuous but piquant confection and to transform their moral contradictions, or public discussion of such...

..Liberals see racism where it doesn't exist, fabricate it when they can't find it and ignore it within their own ranks.

We can be the very first generation which fails to see the logic or pride in defining ourselves by anything else but what is found within ourselves: our values

If anyone thinks interracial "anything" is a big deal, they're probably inbred.

I used to think if I could be free I should be the happiest woman," a young Mississippi woman recalled. "But when my master come to me, and says 'Lizzie, you is free!' it seems like I was in a kind of...

Black is bountiful. White is witful. Both are beautiful.

America. Where property damage is a greater offense than genocide.

There's an inexplicable joy that exists on a brown child's face and in the way they navigate their world long before they discover they're hated.

Let us have peace. But there was the black man looming like a dark ghost on the horizon. He was the child of force and greed, and the father of wealth and war. His labor was indispensable, and the los...

Privilege is presuming to speak for others you know nothing about.

Black is bountiful. White is witful. Together they are beautiful.

Privilege is when you can afford to sit back and criticize others who have to fight for the things you take for granted.

But maybe they were barbarians. Maybe this is what most barbarians look like. They look like everybody else.