Quotes about Racism in america

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Divided we are as people but if we stand together and fight we as a race will unite. — Alcurtis Turner
Maybe he wouldn't end up the kind of man who needed to use his body for work. Maybe he'd be a new kind of black man alto — Yaa Gyasi, Homegoing
Those with unearned privileges often spin things as 'political correctness' to further silence those they wish to oppres — DaShanne Stokes
I had begun to see a new map of the world, one that was frightening in its simplicity, suffocating in its implications. — Barack Obama, Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance
When the media is controlled by people who runs the world, you are only going to get news that they want you to know. Th — Henry Johnson Jr
The instinct to tell our children that they are better than someone else’s children, based on nothing more than the colo — Aberjhani, Illuminated Corners: Collected Essays and Articles Volume I.
When you want to join a prestigious social club, do you wonder if your race will make it difficult to join? If you do we — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Americanah
Bigotry lives not just in our words, but in our actions, thoughts, and institutions. — DaShanne Stokes
Prejudice is learned. What will you teach others through your actions and words? — DaShanne Stokes
In all his imaginings, he had never envisioned her crying. He knew that her son had died, but he'd never expected that h — Bebe Moore Campbell, Your Blues Ain't Like Mine
This is just a nigger talkin', an' a busted-back nigger. So it don't mean nothing, see? You couldn't remember it anyways — John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men
Self Hate: The deadliest 'dis-ease' experienced by wounded souls. — T.F. Hodge, From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph Over Death and Conscious Encounters with "The Divine Presence"
It was not only colored people who praised John, since they could not, John felt, in any case really know; but white peo — James Baldwin, Go Tell It on the Mountain
In the treatment of poverty nationally, one fact stands out: there are twice as many white poor as Negro poor in the Uni — Martin Luther King Jr.
It comforts everybody to think of all Negroes as dirt poor, and to regard those who were not, who earned good money and — Toni Morrison
Racism is both overt and covert. It takes two, closely related forms: individual whites acting against individual blacks — Stokely Carmichael, Black Power: The Politics of Liberation
I lost an arm on my last trip home. My left arm. — Octavia E. Butler, Kindred
At Snortin' Reformatory, a notorious Washington, D.C. jail located in the northern Virginia suburbs, The Afro-Anarchists — Donald Jeffries, The Unreals
If you'd combat bigotry, use honest language and call things out for what they really are. — DaShanne Stokes
Those who benefit from unearned privilege are too often quick to discount those who don't. — DaShanne Stokes