“When and under what conditions is the black man to have a free ballot? When is he in fact to have those full civil rights which have so long been his in law? When is that equality of influence which our form of government was intended to secure to the electors to be restored? This generation should…”— Benjamin Harrison, en.wikiquote.org
“Periodic reminder that there isn't actually any difference between being a racist and being okay with racists. Proceed accordingly.”— Susan Hennessey, twitter.com
“If you are more offended by racist people being called racist than by the racism itself then there is an EXTREMELY high probability that you too are a racist!”— Charles M. Blow, twitter.com
“I also know that while I am black I am a human being, and therefore I have the right to go into any public place. White people didn't know that. Every time I tried to go into a place they stopped me.”— Stokely Carmichael, voicesofdemocracy.umd.edu
“I maintain that every civil rights bill in this country was passed for white people, not for black people.”— Stokely Carmichael, edchange.org
“In a sense, I blame ourselves - together with the mass media - for what has happened in Watts, Harlem, Chicago, Cleveland, Omaha.”— Stokely Carmichael, nybooks.com
“Intelligent people have spent far too much time talking about robots. What we need is fewer people imagining what robots could do and more people thinking about racism.”— Tibor Kalman, wired.com
“It is a good thing that the guard around the tomb of Lincoln should be composed of colored soldiers. It was my own good fortune at Santiago to serve beside colored troops. A man who is good enough to shed his blood for the country is good enough to be given a square deal afterward. More than that no…”— Theodore Roosevelt, theodorerooseveltcenter.org
“Boston itself was a flea market of racism. It had all varieties, old and new. The city had corrupt, city hall-crony racists, brick-throwing, send-’em-back-to-Africa racists, and in the university areas phony radical-chic racists. . . . Other than that, I liked the city.”— Bill Russell, goodreads.com
“We'll put an asterisk next to Barry Bonds' name, sure, as soon as we put one next to Babe Ruth's name. Getting to break records before black people were allowed to play? Excuse me, where is that asterisk? Why don't people talk about that?”— Daniel Tosh, en.wikiquote.org
“If I like their race, how can that be racist?”— Peter Mehlman, Jerry Seinfeld, Jerry Seinfeld, imdb.com
“Calling a member of any race/ethnicity by the name of another famous member of that race/ethnicity is racist.”— Kumail Nanjiani, twitter.com
““Comedian and writer Rae Sanni has been targeted by nazi trolls who hurled dozens of threatening and violent messages and comments at her for days,” a recent post reads. “Rae Sanni was banned by Facebook while her abusers are free to say sh*t like this without being in violation of community standar…”— Taylor Lorenz, thedailybeast.com
“The act of saying, “I don’t date Asian men” is an act of profound dehumanization. You aren’t simply saying he as a man is not worthy, but that his race and culture is unworthy.”— JT Tran, abcsofattraction.com
“We don't want apartheid liberalized. We want it dismantled. You can't improve something that is intrinsically evil.”— Desmond Tutu, en.wikiquote.org
“Mainstream feminism is riddled with classism, racism, and sexual orientation discrimination... Feminists in positions of power in ‘the movement’ aren’t ready to confront their own racism and white privilege, so it’s uncomfortable for them to discuss Dunham’s.””— Deva Cats Baril, thedailybeast.com
“The myth of integration as propounded under the banner of the liberal ideology must be cracked because it makes people believe that something is being achieved when in reality the artificially integrated circles are a soporific to the blacks while salving the consciences of the few guilt-stricken wh…”— Steve Biko, amazon.com
“A game at which the liberals have become masters is that of deliberate evasiveness. The question often comes up `what can you do?`. If you ask him to do something like stopping to use segregated facilities or dropping out of varsity to work at menial jobs like all blacks or defying and denouncing al…”— Steve Biko, amazon.com
“Instead of involving themselves in an all-out attempt to stamp out racism from their white society, liberals waste a lot of time trying to prove to as many blacks as they can find that they are liberal.”— Steve Biko, amazon.com