242 Quotes About White-supremacy
- Author Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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Unlike wealth, poverty of intellect is equally distributed between the sexes and among the races.
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- Author Ijeoma Oluo
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If you live in this system of white supremacy, you are either fighting the system of you are complicit. There is no neutrality to be had towards systems of injustice, it is not something you can just opt out of.
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- Author Tarana Burke
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Systems of white supremacy teach us shame because they have no guilt.Rejecting shame for Black lives means rejecting individual responsibility for structural failures.(Unlearning Shame and Remembering Love by Yolo Akili Robinson)
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- Author Abhijit Naskar
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In a so-called civilized world, a person with white skin is worth more than a person of color – thus they receive privileges in every walk of society, whereas the person of color faces doubt and suspicion every step of the way.
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- Author Brit Bennett
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Her father had been so light that, on a cold morning, she could turn his arm over to see the blue of his veins. But none of that mattered when the white men came for him.
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- Author Malcolm X
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No, there is plenty wrong with Negroes. They have no society. They’re robots, automatons. No minds of their own. I hate to say that about us, but it’s the truth. They are a black body with a white brain.
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- Author Layla Saad
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Proximity to and even intimacy with BIPOC does not erase white privilege, unconscious bias, or complicity in the system of white supremacy. Being in a relationship with a BIPOC or having a biracial or multiracial child does not absolve a person with white privilege from the practice of antiracism.
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- Author Abhijit Naskar
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If you don't stand up to nationalist extremism now, every single nation that has been secular for a short while, such as America, Turkey, India and so on, will again turn back into the grovel-pit of bigotry, sectarianism, persecution and hate crime.
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- Author Layla Saad
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White apathy lacks aggression, but it is deadly in its passivity.
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