“Surveys have shown that young people are more likely than older Americans to support a government ban on hate speech, which is constitutionally protected.”— Matt Pearce, latimes.com
“Like alcoholism, an alcoholic cannot thrive without their enablers. It is the same white Americans who enable their relatives and friends who are racist. It is important to identify and recognize that racism is a mental illness and recommend that individual to a psychotherapist as needed.”— April Harter, medium.com
“The very moral fabric in which we’ve made progress when it comes to race relations in America? He’s failed us, and it’s very unfortunate that our president would say things like he did in that press conference yesterday when he says, ‘There are good people on the side of the Nazis. They weren’t all…”— Gianno Caldwell, thinkprogress.org
“Well, I’m from Alabama, Birmingham, and a very tumultuous generation, history that we share, from totally different sides. But really, the story of Emmett Till is part of our history, and that terrible tragedy, a story that we’re so aware of.”— Emmylou Harris, pbs.org
“I had white friends, black friends. I was easy going. The occasional comment, I just chose not to hear it.”— Mo Farah, bigissue.com
“What we practice becomes habit. Societies can repeat destructive collective habits of racism, hatred, and revenge.”— Jack Kornfield, twitter.com
“White people got y'all thinking Muslims are terrorists while whites been terrorizing the world for centuries. I'm impressed.”— Southern Belle., twitter.com
“We have to stop perpetuating the racist myth that [only a] white man can save the world. It’s not based on actual fact. Our heroes don’t look like Matt Damon. They look like Malala. Gandhi. Mandela. Your big sister when she stood up for you to those bullies that one time. [M]oney is the lamest excus…”— Constance Wu, twitter.com
“The concept of illegality only matters when affixed to racialized people, white immigrant status is an afterthought.”— @bodega_gyro_ao, berniesrevolution.tumblr.com
“I spent my twenties in a drug-infested den of crime and inequity: Yale University. I saw more drugs being done in more ways, off of more surfaces, by more kinds of people than I ever saw in any black community. Well, the cops never kicked in the doors. The police never showed up.”— Van Jones, teamcoco.com
“For the same reason why black people aren't slaves anymore, but still need anti-racist movements: it's possible to be legally free and still treated like shit.”— Nora Rivkis, quora.com
“Dr. King, people forget, was not this beloved figure that everybody put on a pedestal. He was considered one of the most dangerous people in America by the head of the Federal Bureau of Investigations.”— Van Jones, imdb.com
“We were not brought here to be made citizens. We were brought here against our will. We were not brought here to enjoy the constitutional gifts that they speak so beautifully about.”— Malcolm X, imdb.com
“History is not just stuff that happens by accident. We are the products of history that our ancestors choose, if we’re white. If we are black, we are the products of the history that our ancestors mostly likely did not choose. Yet here we are all together, the products of that set of choices. And we…”— Kevin Gannon, imdb.com
“In many ways, the so-called war on drugs was a war on communities of color, a war on black communities, a war on latino communities.”— Angela Davis, imdb.com
“But if you dismiss black complaints of mistreatment by police as being completely rooted in our modern context, then you’re missing then point completely. There has never been a period in our history where the law and order branch of the state has not operated against the freedoms, the liberties, th…”— Kevin Gannon, imdb.com
“People say all the time, ‘well, I don’t understand how people could have tolerated slavery?’ ‘How could they have made peace with that?’ ‘How could people have gone to a lynching and participated in that?’ ‘That’s so crazy, if I was living at that time I would never have tolerated anything like that…”— Bryan Stevenson, imdb.com
“That's why when someone asks me about violence, I just find it incredible because what it means is that the person who's asking that question has absolutely no idea what black people have gone through, what black people have experienced in this country since the time the first black person was kidna…”— Angela Davis, imdb.com