“The sacrificial demand of Black time and energy eats up our best and brightest voices, then spits them out for the greater good.”— Jennifer Neal, thecut.com
“I should probably disclose that this newsletter is drenched in bias, which is to say, I strongly feel that Tucker Carlson is an idiot potato head who is openly profiting off of white supremacy.”— Lauren Duca, laurenduca.substack.com
“Of all the things we’ve been up against as a country, only one of them actually came convincingly close to permanently ending the American project, and that was white supremacy during the course of the Civil War. And I am now convinced that, if we don’t tackle that in my lifetime, it could wreck the…”— Pete Buttigieg, newyorker.com
“I have taken I think every single opportunity I've gotten to make sure that people understand that my work and one of my responsibilities is to make sure that we are dealing with the issue of anti-Semitism. That as I fight hard to deal with Islamophobia that I am going to do the same thing because I…”— Ilhan Omar, cbsnews.com
“The current social infrastructure of the Internet seems all but custom-built to turn white nationalists into media stars.”— Aaron Miguel Cantú, thebaffler.com
“I keep Command-F-ing the Constitution, and can’t seem to find the place where our founding fathers guaranteed that a bigotry variety hour be sponsored by IHOP.”— Lauren Duca, out.com
“How do we let a man get on BART, slit a woman's throat, stab her to death, and walk off through our community and no stopping him?”— Jinina Knox, essence.com
“I contend that we are the finest race in the world and that the more of the world we inhabit the better it is for the human race. Just fancy those parts that are at present inhabited by the most despicable specimens of human beings what an alteration there would be if they were brought under Anglo-S…”— Cecil Rhodes, pages.uoregon.edu
“I will say then that I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and black races, that I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of making voters or jurors of negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry with wh…”— Abraham Lincoln, en.wikiquote.org
“That’s another reason why I center black and brown girls. There are nuances in our community around sexual violence that are informed by centuries of oppression and white supremacy, but we have to confront them.”— Tarana Burke, thenation.com
“Gender-based violence does not exist without other systems of violence, especially those built to uphold white supremacy (such as racism, colonialism, zionism, militarism).”— Mahroh Jahangiri, feministing.com
“My disdain for cops is institutional, not individual. Just because you may have a positive personal relationship with someone who is a cop doesn’t change the fact that the law enforcement system in this country is rooted in white supremacy and is used to repress and control the working class while p…”— fromacomrade, fromacomrade.tumblr.com
“Somebody forgot the pitchforks at home, so all we got is torches.”— Augustus Sol Invictus, nytimes.com
“I know this s hard to hear, but... white supremacy benefits all white people. Including the ones with no torches. That’s why it survives.”— Brittany Packnett, twitter.com
“A lot of people desperately want to find some reason why these statues aren’t actually symbols of white terror against blacks. And you know what? There are always multiple motivations for everything. But honestly, the primary motivation here is pretty clear. They were only incidentally meant as comm…”— Kevin Drum, motherjones.com