“ Those who benefit from unearned privilege are too often quick to discount those who don't. DaShanne Stokes
“ Genealogy itself is something of a privilege, coming far more easily to those of us for whom enslavement, conquest, and dispossession of our land has not been our lot. Tim Wise
“ The precise ancestry of a black drug dealer or cop killer is irrelevant. His blackness predicts and explains his crime. He reinforces the racist presumption. It is only when that presumption is questi… Ta-Nehisi Coates
“ WHITE NATIONALISTS & BLACK LIVES MATTER: The harder you swing the pendulum one way, the more violently it will swing back. A.E. Samaan
“ Yet the enslavement of Africans—over 20 percent of the population—served as the linchpin of American democracy; that is, the much-heralded stability and continuity of American democracy was predicated… Cornel West
“ To be born into, to go to school, to study, to learn, to play, to worship, to love, to work and to die in segregation and not have one single person who loved, mentored or guided me convey that there… Robin DiAngelo
“ I could show fight on natural selection having done and doing more for the progress of civilization than you seem inclined to admit. Remember what risk the nations of Europe ran, not so many centuries… Charles Darwin
“ The fear had precedent. Toward the end of the Civil War, having witnessed the effectiveness of the Union's 'colored troops,' a flailing Confederacy began considering an attempt to recruit blacks into… Ta-Nehisi Coates
“ There is a very dangerous myth that #Hitler was solely fueled by racism. His desire to engineer society was pervasive. Racism alone cannot explain what happened in The Holocaust without also addressin… A.E. Samaan
“ When Pope Pius XII died, LIFE magazine carried a picture of him in his private study kneeling before a black Christ. What was the source of their information? All white people who have studied history… Malcolm X
“ The science fiction author, H.G. Wells was an avid supporter of eugenics and a believer in a hierarchy of the races. A.E. Samaan
“ White supremacy is a black person telling the people of Baltimore to chill out and try peace, thinking they came up with that thought all on their own. Darnell Lamont Walker
“ Bigotry hurts the economy, so the next time you want to blame minorities for your problems, first take a look in the mirror. DaShanne Stokes
“ America's put American Black Folks in such a bad position, empty plates and glasses now get us full. Darnell Lamont Walker
“ 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… Jonathan Kozol
“ …white supremacy is a much more useful term for understanding the complicity of people of color in upholding and maintaining racial hierarchies that do not involve force (i.e slavery, apartheid) than… Bell Hooks
“ Thoughtful white people know they are inferior to black people. Anyone who has studied the genetic phase of biology knows that white is considered recessive and black is considered dominant. When you… Malcolm X
“ Since men are not equals in white supremacist, capitalist, patriarchal class structure, which men do women want to be equal to? Bell Hooks
“ 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… Ta-Nehisi Coates
“ It is in racists' best interest to maintain white supremacy at all costs. They will defend it with their lives, but ONLY after they've defended it with ours. Darnell Lamont Walker
