Race And Racism In America Quotes - Page 2

Privilege is when you can afford to sit back and watch as others' rights are trampled upon.

Acknowledging that all our land was stolen from Native people feels like too great a burden, so we create an alternative reality that allows us to disengage emotionally from the truth.

That summer, in any case, all the fears with which I had grown up, and which were now a part of me and controlled my vision of the world, rose up like a wall between the world and me, and drove me into the church.

Pride is the problem. Everyone wants to be right so badly they overlook the "rights" of others.

Call up the ever-pure, the effulgent and the ever-radiant character of true humanism in yourself and in others, and no racism shall have the power to thrive in such society even for a few seconds.

If origin defines race, then the entire human race is African.

Whites saying 'make America white again' is like millionaires saying 'make the wealthy rich again.

In the midst of combat, we learned a great deal about mankind and its many different races, creeds and beliefs.

It speaks volumes when people who are discriminated against go on to discriminate against others.

In the biological sense, race does not exist.

Prejudice plunges you into a world of fear and hate. That's no way to live.

People often call fighting racism being 'PC' when they don't want to confront their own prejudice

People often call fighting discrimination being 'PC' because they don't want their own unearned privileges challenged.

If we do not know how to meaningfully talk about racism, our actions will move in misleading directions.