“The concept of reverse racism is flawed, if not absolutely ridiculous. Most, if not all of the negative responses from people of color toward white people, are reactions to the hatred, violence, cruelty and brutality that they were shown by white people for centuries. Much of the foundation of the m…”— Lauryn Hill, sohh.com
“If I go outside and try to hail a cab and he passes me for the white woman standing right there, that racism is still alive and kicking. And we have to change that. And I'm not blaming the white lady, she needed a cab too.”— Queen Latifah, billboard.com
“there needs to be a concerted effort to address the systemic racism in our criminal justice system.”— Hillary Clinton, youtube.com
“It is up to us to take a stand and demand that they ‘stop killing us,' We’re going to stand up as a community and fight against anyone who believes that murder or any violent action by those who are sworn to protect us should consistently go unpunished.”— Beyoncé Knowles, beyonce.com
“The Constitution gives you the right, as a white man, to have a rifle in your home. The Constitution gives you the right to protect yourself. Why is it ‘ominous’ when black people even talk of having rifles? Why don’t we have the right to self-defense? Is it because maybe you know we’re going to hav…”— James Baldwin, amazon.com
“Indeed, in America there is a strange and powerful belief that if you stab a black person ten times, the bleeding stops and the healing begins the moment the assailant drops the knife. We believe white dominance to be a fact of the inert past, a delinquent debt that can be made to disappear if only…”— Ta-Nehisi Coates, theatlantic.com
“But the thing is, we treat racism in this country like it’s a style that America went through. Like flared legs and lava lamps. Oh, that crazy thing we did. We were hanging black people. We treat it like a fad instead of a disease that eradicates millions of people. You’ve got to get it at a lab, an…”— Chris Rock, vulture.com
“There is no such thing as race. None. There is just a human race. Scientifically, anthropologically, racism is a construct — a social construct. And it has benefits. Money can be made off of it, and people who don’t like themselves can feel better because of it. It can describe certain kinds of beha…”— Toni Morrison, huffingtonpost.com
“Because this? This is not justice, or peace, or progress. It reeks of death, the stench of corrupt power wielders, it reeks of silence, of institutionalized murder, of heartbreak, of irreparable damages; this feels like waterboarding, like syndicated torture for the masses.”— Joel Leon, medium.com
“Violence never brings permanent peace. It solves no social problems: it merely creates new and more complicated ones.’”— Martin Luther King Jr., amazon.com
“Syrian refugees are the threats? No. The biggest threat to our society is the white male ego.”— Dylan Goldberg, twitter.com
“Funny how you repeatedly hear people using their right to free speech to defend their right to hate speech.”— Anonymous, theguardian.com
“Police abuse in black and brown communities is generations old. It is nothing new. It has become more visible to mainstream America largely because of the proliferation of personal recording devices, cellphone cameras, video recorders — they're everywhere. We need police officers. We also need them…”— Redditt Hudson, vox.com
“Racism is woven into the fabric of our nation. At no time in our history has there been a national consensus that everyone should be equally valued in all areas of life.”— Redditt Hudson, vox.com
“No matter what an officer has done to a black person, that officer can always cover himself in the running narrative of heroism, risk, and sacrifice that is available to a uniformed police officer by virtue of simply reporting for duty.”— Redditt Hudson, vox.com
“The NRA was quiet as a mouse about Philando's execution and 2nd amendment rights being violated. But now they speak [ photo ]”— Tariq Nasheed, twitter.com
“I am sick and tired of watching folks like Boris Johnson, Marine Le Pen, Donald Trump, and others appeal to the worst racial instincts of our species, only to be shushed by folks telling me that it's not really racism driving their popularity. It's economic angst. It's regular folks tired of being s…”— Kevin Drum, motherjones.com
“We’ve been floating this country on credit for centuries, and we’re done watching and waiting while this invention called whiteness uses and abuses us, burying black people out of sight and out of mind while extracting our culture, our dollars, our entertainment like oil -- black gold! -- ghettoizin…”— Jesse Williams, billboard.com
“If you have a critique for our resistance then you’d better have an established record, a critique of our oppression.”— Jesse Williams, billboard.com
“Now, what we’ve been doing is looking at the data and we know that police somehow manage to de-escalate, disarm and not kill white people every day. So what’s going to happen is we’re going to have equal rights and justice in our own country or we will restructure their function and ours.”— Jesse Williams, billboard.com