“The Bureau of Justice reported that one in three young black males is expected to go to jail or prison during his lifetime, which is an unbelievably shocking statistic.”— Bryan Stevenson, imdb.com
“So many aspects of the old Jim Crow are suddenly legal again once you’ve been branded a felon. And so it seems that in America we haven’t so much ended racial caste, but simply redesigned it.”— Michelle Alexander, imdb.com
“We knew we couldn’t make it illegal to be either against the war or black [people]. But by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt their communities.”— Unknown Official of the Nixon Administration, imdb.com
“Right now, we now have more African-Americans under criminal supervision than all the slaves back in 1850s.”— New Jersey Senator Cory Booker, imdb.com
“What are we going to do about all this brutality upon law enforcement that is going on?”— Merchon Andersen, nymag.com
“The only real difference between racist, sexist people and those who are not is the conscious effort that the latter make to counteract their learned-in-childhood, unconscious prejudices.”— Elaine N. Aron, amazon.com
“Some tips on dealing with being a spectator. NEVER engage the perpetrator. He (and it is usually he) is looking for confrontation. Instead speak to the person he is abusing. Say hello. Introduce yourself. Shake his or her hand. And just stand with them. Keep talking. About anything. Weather. Bus sch…”— Uditi Shane, facebook.com
“Has it occurred to you that it's racist to assume that black people are gonna beat you up for being racist?”— Poussey Washington, imdb.com
“The racism that we need to face today is much more insidious than white hoods and racial slurs. It is the racism of well-meaning people who are not consciously or intentionally racist. The racism that we need to face is the racism of average white middle-class Americans who would never think of sayi…”— John Halstead, huffingtonpost.com
“His Holiness Pope Francis told this body, from the very spot that I’m standing on tonight, that to imitate the hatred and violence of tyrants and murderers is the best way to take their place. When politicians insult Muslims, whether abroad or (who) are our fellow citizens, when a mosque is vandaliz…”— Barack Obama, whitehouse.gov
“I hate Indians. They are a beastly people with a beastly religion. The famine was their own fault for breeding like rabbits.”— Winston Churchill, by Johann Hari, independent.co.uk
“White America’ is a syndicate arrayed to protect its exclusive power to dominate and control our bodies. Sometimes this power is direct (lynching), and sometimes it is insidious (redlining). But however it appears, the power of domination and exclusion is central to the belief in being white, and wi…”— Ta-Nehisi Coates, amazon.com
“But race is the child of racism, not the father. And the process of naming ‘the people’ has never been a matter of genealogy and physiognomy so much as one of hierarchy. Difference in hue and hair is old. But the belief in the preeminence of hue and hair, the notion that these factors can correctly…”— Ta-Nehisi Coates, amazon.com
“He said that man’s heart was the only bad heart in the animal kingdom; that man was the only animal capable of feeling malice, envy, vindictiveness, revengefulness, hatred, selfishness, the only animal that loves drunkenness, almost the only animal that could endure personal uncleanliness and a filt…”— Mark Twain, amazon.com
“There are many humorous things in the world; among them, the white man's notion that he is less savage than the other savages.”— Mark Twain, amazon.com
“Because when you look beyond the millions of dollars, fans and followers, Minaj is simply another black woman being accused of divisiveness by a white feminist for pointing out racial inequality.”— Yomi Adegoke, independent.co.uk
“The best example of Swift’s white feminism is when Nicki Minaj posted about the racism and antiblack misogyny that fuels award nominations after the announcement for the MTV VMA’s in 2015... Swift loves to instigate everything about herself, and then didn’t respond to Minaj until numerous articles w…”— Ashleigh Shackelford, wearyourvoicemag.com