2,209 Quotes About Racism

Looking back on the past four hundred years, this nation's story of racism can seem almost inevitable. But it didn't have to be this way. At critical turning points throughout history, people made deliberate choices to construct and reinforce a racist America. Our generation has the opportunity to make different choices, ones that lead to greater human dignity and justice, but only if we pay heed to our history and respond with the truth and courage that confronting racism requires.

America doesn't mean white or color, America means celebration of diversity.

My name had lost its ring of familiarity and I had to be nudged to go and receive my diploma.

Tyranny is locking us up. Tyranny is taking our freedom. Tyranny is right here. Tyranny is American.

Sure, Hispanics got it bad in this country. But nobody’s got it as bad as black people. American Indians, but that’s it.

The first step to building an antiracist America is acknowledging America's racist past. By acknowledging America's racist past, we can acknowledge America's racist present. In acknowledging America's racist present, we can work toward building an antiracist America.

The world sees color, children only see love.

The 2020 USA election will give clear insight into how prevalent racism is in America.

It was in the making of the New World that Europeans became white, Africans black, and everyone else yellow, red, or brown. t was in the making of the New World that humans were set apart on the basis of what they looked like, identified solely in contrast to one another, and ranked to form a caste system based on a new concept called race. It was in the process of ranking that we were all cast into assigned roles to meet the needs of the larger production. None of us are ourselves.