2,209 Quotes About Racism

Are You, then the God of white people, and if we who are brown worship You, do we receive Your blessings as white men do?

If it is true that education is the main foundation of any society, it follows that the state of race in today’s America mirrors its education system. Therefore, America’s education needs serious examination and even remaking. It is a system that uses Blacks (and other marginalized people) as mere tokens. You see a meager quota of Black people (as employees or students) here and there to give the false impression of equity.

If it is true that education is the main foundation of any society, it follows that the state of race in today’s America mirrors its education system.

Bilbo was pointing to the power of the literacy test and understanding clause, which were tailor-made for societies that systematically refused to educate millions of their citizens and ensured that the bulk of the population remained functionally illiterate...for most of the twentieth century, many Jim Crow school systems did not have high schools for African Americans.

In short, Virginia ensured that there would be schooling for whites but not blacks; and after that, the state changed its laws so that those who were illiterate would not be able to vote.

Nothing among humans is more dangerous than passive ignorance and conservatism that promises a future based on the past.

If education were the same as information, the encyclopedias would be the greatest sages in the world.

This is not education my friend. It is a process of manufacturing computation devices that look like Homo sapiens, and thereby falsely labeled as Education.

All systems of the society should serve the mind, instead of the mind serving the systems.