72 Quotes About Systemic-racism

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.

Nobody notices, only you've known,you're not sick, not crazy,not angry, not sad--It's just this, you're injured.

It is much easier to conquer outer space than inner space.

Prejudice is grounded on sentiments, that's where reason must intervene, and coldness is grounded on logic, that's where warmth must prevail.

Spare the biases, spoil the society.

When political strategists argue that the Republican Party is missing a huge chance to court the black community, they are thinking of this mostly male bloc—the old guy in the barbershop, the grizzled Pop Warner coach, the retired Vietnam vet, the drunk uncle at the family reunion. He votes Democratic, not out of any love for abortion rights or progressive taxation, but because he feels—in fact, he knows—that the modern-day GOP draws on the support of people who hate him.

Individual intent is not necessary for systemic evil.

Genealogy itself is something of a privilege, coming far more easily to those of us for whom enslavement, conquest, and dispossession of our land has not been our lot.