The point of racism is to dehumanize those targeted by the racism. Violence as a reaction to injustice provides ammunition to racists.

It comforts everybody to think of all Negroes as dirt poor, and to regard those who were not, who earned good money and kept it, as some kind of shameful miracle. White people liked that...

The irony of American history is the tendency of good white Americanas to presume racial innocence. Ignorance of how we are shaped racially is the first sign of privilege.In other words. It is a privilege...

protect our property at all costs from any sense of perceived threat. ” This is what the worship of death looks like.

When you look at it objectively, that’s what most colonists do—they land then find a way of wiping out their competition. In America is was blankets covered with smallpox and in Australia it was permits...

Like the Nazis, the cadres of jihad have a death wish that sets the seal on their nihilism. The goal of a world run by an oligarchy in possession of Teutonic genes, who may kill...

When you hear someone insulting the Jews pay attention; he is talking about you.” And I believed at the time he was universally right, meaning that I was responsible in my body and my soul...

Racism hurts everyone, including racists themselves.

Because of racism, he can’t govern effectively’ is not a great argument for re-election.

Simon shook his head. ‘The Nazis in Germany…the Japanese here in Shanghai…Treating people as less than human because of the shape of their faces or the sound of their names. Sometimes it feels like the...

Last time I was down South I walked into this restaurant, and this white waitress came up to me and said: ‘We don’t serve colored people here.’ “I said: ‘that’s all right, I don’t eat...

The thing about the black market is, it’s racist. White children make useful slaves, too.

Color makes no difference; the peeps are gray, the seals are black, and the crabs yellow; but we don’t care, and are all friends. It is very unkind to treat you so.

How’s your grandpa?””Still worried that your blackness will infect me.””That’s the plan. First you, then all the other blondes, and then on to brunettes and redheads. Once we have the womenfolk, all the babies will...

The tension between people is palpable, and the ideal of what it means to be and look American becomes a preoccupation to folks around the country, including me.

Ask yourself this question: Of this had been a white child found dead in a black neighborhood, would they be knocking on every door? ‘Yes, sir.’ Searching high and low? ‘Yes, indeed.’ It this had...

I’d have wasted a lot of time and trouble before I learned that the best way to take all people, black or white, is to take them for what they think they are, then leave...

Mark, trying his best to distance himself from the cruel and pathetic 21st century, hadn’t listened to the news reports, not even when the dark green jeeps and helicopters showed up in town, men dressed...

It is extremely dangerous to encourage people to see themselves as [inherently] exceptional, whatever the motivation. There are big countries and small countries, rich and poor, those with long democratic traditions and those still finding...

Beneath the armor of skin/and/bone/and/mindmost of our colors are amazingly the same.

The question of whether one alleges the Superiority or Inferiority of any given race is irrelevant; racism has only one psychological root: the racist’s sense of his own Inferiority.

While we maintain the unity of the human species, we at the same time repel the depressing assumption of superior and inferior races of men. There are nations more susceptible of cultivation, more highly civilized,...

He began to talk about the fact that race was not only a construct but a scientific error along the magnitude of the error that the world was flat. . . ‘And when they discover...

No matter how much Steve and I preached about staying legal, most of these men never believed us, and some would grin or wink as we spoke.They thought the CKKKK was like the Klan group...

Second-rate parts of the world for second-rate minds.

Then Mr. Underwood’s meaning became clear: Atticus had used every tool available to free men to save Tom Robinson, but in the secret courts of men’s hearts Atticus had no case.

This week, Zuma was quoted as saying, ‘When the British came to our country, they said everything we are doing was barbaric, was wrong, inferior in whatever way.’ But the serious critique of Zuma is...

Antisemitism is unique among religious hatreds. It is a racist conspiracy theory fashioned for the needs of messianic and brutal rulers, as dictators from the Tsars to the Islamists via the Nazis have shown. Many...

We want to believe something very similar about racism and accusations of racism. If we can prove that a particular allegation of racism is unfounded or untrue, we can all breathe a collective sigh of...

You blame me and my country for your losses Miss Kimball. And I blame you and your country. But you and I are people, not countries. Did you kill my wife? My child? Would you...

Let’s make progress justice a process, not an afterthought

Looks like somebody’s got jungle fever.”That’s not even the right kind of racist.

Astrology is a cousin of racism.

What used to be edgy (divorces) has become mainstream and what used to be mainstream (racism and sexism) has become shocking.

The world does not need white people to civilize others. The real White People’s Burden is to civilize ourselves.

It’s often said that those who are unduly bothered by gays are latent homosexuals. Isn’t it possible that people obsessed with racism are themselves racist.

In both cases, it is the prejudice, not the condition, that does the harm. It may be, as some would have it, that blacks are inherently inferior to whites or that homosexuals are all, by...

…racist thought and action says far more about the person they come from than the person they are directed at.

I’ve always looked at America like a foster mother doing it only for the check. At any minute, I just knew she’d be ready to give up on me.

The coalition emerges out of your recognition that it’s fucked up for you, in the same way that we’ve already recognized that it’s fucked up for us. I don’t need your help. I just need...

Oh Sverige, Sverige du Gamla och FriaVarför dödar dina söner mig?

To change undesirable behaviors we see in the world, we must change the thinking that leads to those behaviors.

Sometimes the old ways will not give you up”…Chief–Lobi Tribe

I believe it’s incredibly important to write against [racial] stereotypes. If we give in and make sure that all black women characters are asexual, gentle, and kind we wind up with another set of stereotypes.

Liberty is no less a blessing because oppression has so long darkened the mind that it can not appreciate it.

To give preference to the life of a being simply because that being is a member of our species would put us in the same position as racists who give preference to those who are...

us.” We could do that. Or we can choose to be a nation that shames and blames its most vulnerable, affixes badges of dishonor upon them at young ages, and then relegates them to a...

Peonage, Anti-Lynch Bill, poll tax, these are our issues. They are the most controversial issues in American life, and some of us will have to die for them! Yes, we want to join with the...

That anybody white could take your whole self for anything that came to mind. Not just work, kill, or maim you, but dirty you so bad you forgot who you were and couldn’t think it...

Ignorance of how we are shaped racially is the first sign of privilege. In other words. It is a privilege to ignore the consequences of race in America.