2,209 Quotes About Racism

If you need to ask for the definition of ' white privilege '...you already have it.

We first crush people to the earth, and then claim the right of trampling on them forever, because they are prostrate.

We need to let go of respectability politics and understand that whiteness as a construct will never approve of us, and that the approval of white supremacy is not something that we or any community should be seeking. We have to be willing to embrace the full autonomy of people who are less privileged and understand that equity means making access to opportunity easier, not deciding which opportunities they deserve.

I believe in rage, believe in aiming it when I unleash it because I know it can be so powerful. My targets tend to be up, not down or sideways, from where I sit.

The majority of people who are in prison are there because society has failed them.

The goal of all the GOP voter ID laws is to reduce significantly the demographic and political impact of a growing share of the American electorate. To diminish the ability of black, Latinos, and Asians, as well as the poor and students to choose government representatives and the types of policies they support. Unfortunately, it's working.

And if you are white in a white supremacist society, you are racist. If you are male in a patriarchy, you are sexist. If you are able-bodied, you are ableist. If you are anything above poverty in a capitalist society, you are classist. You can sometimes be all of these things at once.” You do, as Walt Whitman said, contain multitudes.

The idea of race is a myth most foul,Born of ignorance and narrowness.Now we live in a different time,That requires abolition of divisiveness.

Kids even asked Izzy if her family celebrated the bombing of Pearl Harbor like Christmas. Or when students requested her help on their math homework. Each time, something inside shriveled up, ashamed and silent.