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We shall neither die out, nor be driven out; but shall go on with this people, either as a testimony against them, or as an evidence in their favor throughout their generations.
Frederick Douglass1817–1895“The Destiny of Colored Americans”, The North Star (16 November 1849)
- America
We don’t want apartheid liberalized. We want it dismantled. You can’t improve something that is intrinsically evil.
Desmond Tutu1931–2021Speech (1985) as quoted in Equality, Volume 1, Issue 1 (1989)
- Good & Evil
Of all forms of slavery there is none that is so harmful and degrading as that form of slavery which tempts one human being to hate another by reason of his race or color.
Booker T. Washington1856–1915An Address on Abraham Lincoln before the Republican Club of New York City (12 February 1909)
- Slavery
I’m not going to sit at your table and watch you eat, with nothing on my plate, and call myself a diner. Sitting at the table doesn’t make you a diner, unless you eat some of what’s on that plate.
Malcolm X1925–1965Speech in Cleveland, Ohio (April 3, 1964)
- America
I am a man, a black man, an American.
Clarence Thomasborn 1948I Am a Man, a Black Man, an American (1998)
- America
Racism is a doctrine of, by and for brutes.
Ayn Rand1905–1982The Virtue of Selfishness (1964)
We didn’t land on Plymouth Rock. The rock was landed on us.
Malcolm X1925–1965Speech at Founding Rally of the Organization of Afro-American Unity (28 June 1964)
- America
In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.
Toni Morrison1931–2019The Guardian (29 January 1992)
- America
I say to you quite frankly that the time for racial discrimination is over.
Jimmy Carter1924–2024Gubernatorial Inaugural Address (12 January 1971)
What then did you expect when you unbound the gag that muted those black mouths? That they would chant your praises?
Jean-Paul Sartre1905–1980“Orphée Noir (Black Orpheus)” preface, Anthologie de la Nouvelle Poésie Nègre et Malgache (1948)
- Freedom
One of the strategies of racism is to confuse the victims into believing all their victories should be awarded to the oppressor.
Stokely Carmichael1941–1998Black Power: The Politics of Liberation (1992 ed.), Afterword, p. 193
As the global expansion of Indian and Chinese restaurants suggests, xenophobia is directed against foreign people, not foreign cultural imports.
Eric Hobsbawm1917–2012Mapping the Nation (Mappings Series) (13 November 2012), p. 263.
We demand the fulfilment of the just claims of the productive classes by the state on the basis of race solidarity. To us state and race are one.
Adolf Hitler1889–1945Interview with George Sylvester Viereck, Liberty magazine (9 July 1932)
- Government
To have given each one of the million Negro free families a forty-acre freehold would have made a basis of real democracy in the United States that might easily have transformed the modern world.
W. E. B. Du Bois1868–1963Black Reconstruction in America (1935), p. 602
- Democracy
I’m not an American. I’m one of the 22 million black people who are the victims of Americanism. One of the 22 million black people who are the victims of democracy, nothing but disguised hypocrisy.
Malcolm X1925–1965Speech in Cleveland, Ohio (April 3, 1964)
- America
- Democracy