347 Quotes About Racism-in-america

  • Author Isabel Wilkerson
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    To dehumanize another human being is not merely to declare that someone is not human, and it does not happen by accident. It is a process, a programming. It takes energy and reinforcement to deny what is self-evident in another member of one's own species.

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  • Author Charles M. Blow
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    Progress is the wall behind which white America hides. (Even many Black leaders have absorbed and regurgitate the progress narrative.) White liberals expect Black people to applaud their efforts. But how is that a fair and legitimate expectation? Slavery, white supremacy, and racism are horrid, man-made constructs that should never have existed in the first place. Are we meant to cheer the slow, creeping, centuries-long undoing of a thing that never should have been done?

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  • Author Damon Young
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    And when addiction does cripple white communities, as it has with the opioid epidemic, they don't get America's fire and fury, as black neighborhoods devastated by crack did. They get pillows and twenty-three-minutes-long Nightline profiles.

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  • Author Jodi Picoult
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    I remember reading a novel once that said the native Alaskans who came in contact with the white missionaries thought, at first, they were ghosts. And why shouldn't they have thought that? Like ghosts, white people move effortlessly through through boundaries and borders. Like ghosts, we can be anywhere we want to be.

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  • Author Pocahontas Gertler
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    I am an old woman now and it pains me to know that I shall die never having known what it feels like to have my full humanity recognized by my country.

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  • Author John Howard Griffin
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    The Southern Negro will not tell the white man the truth. He long ago learned that if he speaks a truth unpleasing to the white, the white will make life miserable for him

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  • Author John Howard Griffin
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    I told them good night and returned to my room, less lonely and warmed by the brief contact with others like me who felt the need to be reassured that an eye could show something besides suspicion or hate

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