55 Quotes About Antiracism

Are there any good moves for blacks?1 Mar Zero Discrimination Day

My fortune within corporate America has always been held hostage by white solidarity.

We don't need white allies to help people of color to eradicate racism. Instead white people need people of color to be their allies in this fight.

White supremacists love what America used to be, even though America used to be - and still is - teeming with millions of struggling White people. White supremacists blame non-White people for the struggles of White people when any objective analysis of their plight primarily implicates the rich White Trumps they support.

Being antiracist is not simply political correctness, it is proven science.

Racism and bigotry are not polite, and I refuse to be polite in my fight against them.

[Trans women] have to fight to be included within the category “woman” in a way that is not dissimilar from the earlier struggles of Black women and women of color who were assigned the gender female at birth.

As many times as I’ve spoken during Black History Month, I never tire of urging people to remember that it wasn’t a single individual or two who created that movement, that, as a matter of fact, it was largely women within collective contexts, Black women, poor Black women who were maids, washerwomen, and cooks. These were the people who collectively refused to ride the bus.

For most of our history the very category “human” has not embraced Black people and people of color. Its abstractness has been colored white and gendered male.