347 Quotes About Racism-in-america

Northerners were distanced from the violence, from the inhumanity of the practice [of slavery], but were implicated all the same

Whites saying 'make America white again' is like millionaires saying 'make the wealthy rich again.

Electing a bigot enables further bigotry.

Before the constitution can protect the people it must first protect the person.

When a political opponent resorts to the racist card, it's a sure sign of moral bankruptcy: there's no decent argument left in the armoury.

Reconciliation is the pursuit of the impossible -and upside-down world where those who are powerful have relinquished that power to the margins

Prejudice is learned. What will you teach others through your actions and words?

We, the black people, the most displaced, the poorest, the most maligned and scourged, we had the glorious task of reclaiming the soul and saving the honor of the country. We, the most hated, must take hate into our hands and by the miracle of love, turn loathing into love. We, the most feared and apprehensive must take fear and by love, change it into hope. We, who die daily in large and small ways, must take the demon death and turn it into life.-Martin Luther King Jr.

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 altogether, one who got to use his mind.