Racism-in-america Quotes

Racism is both overt and covert. It takes two, closely related forms: individual whites acting again...

It comforts everybody to think of all Negroes as dirt poor, and to regard those who were not, who ea...

Whitepeople believed that whatever the manners, under every dark skin was a jungle. Swift unnavigabl...

This so called 'Home of the Brave'why isn't anybody Backing us up!When they c these crooked ass Redn...

As a people, we have been tolled farther and farther away from the facts of what we have done by the...

Many governments have been founded upon the principle of the subordination and serfdom of certain cl...

I recollect once of having heard a gentleman from one of the northern States, of great power and abi...

I had begun to see a new map of the world, one that was frightening in its simplicity, suffocating i...

They tell us race is an invention, that there is no genetic variation between two black people than ...

Race doesn't really exist for you because it has never been a barrier. Black folks don't have that c...

When you want to join a prestigious social club, do you wonder if your race will make it difficult t...

Segmentation was wrong when it was forced by white people, and I believe it is still wrong when it i...

They are simple people, most of them, but that doesn't make them subhuman.You are telling them Jesus...

This is just a nigger talkin', an' a busted-back nigger. So it don't mean nothing, see? You couldn't...

I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: 'We...

...The straitjackets of race prejudice and discrimination do not wear only southern labels. The subt...

We did not hesitate to call our movement an army. But it was a special army, with no supplies but it...

The words 'bad timing' came to be ghosts haunting our every move in Birmingham. Yet people who used ...

We, the black people, the most displaced, the poorest, the most maligned and scourged, we had the gl...

When I walk in, they may like me or dislike me, but everybody knows I'm here

Vagrancy laws and other laws defining activities such as "mischief" and "insulting gestures" as crim...

You're a Black educated fool, son. These white folk have newspapers, magazines, radios, spokesmen to...

I feel that for white America to understand the significance of the problem of the Negro will take a...

If only ten or twenty Negroes had been put into slavery, we would call it injustice, but there were ...