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Whatever white people do not know about Negroes reveals, precisely and inexorably, what they do not know about themselves.
James Baldwin1924–1987The Fire Next Time (1963)
All over Harlem, Negro boys and girls are growing into stunted maturity, trying desperately to find a place to stand; and the wonder is not that so many are ruined but that so many survive.
James Baldwin1924–1987“The Harlem Ghetto” originally in Commentary (February 1948)
- Youth
If the word integration means anything, this is what it means: that we, with love, shall force our brothers to see themselves as they are, to cease fleeing from reality and begin to change it.
James Baldwin1924–1987The Fire Next Time (1963)
- Love
In order to get beyond racism, we must first take account of race. There is no other way. And in order to treat some persons equally, we must treat them differently.
Harry Blackmun1908–1999Concurring in part and dissenting in part, Regents of the University of California v. Bakke, 438 U.S. 265 (1978)
There’s no race, no religion, no class system, no color – nothing – no sexual orientation, that makes us better than anyone else. We’re all deserving of love.
Sandra Bullockborn 1964Parade interview (2009)
- Love
No one should be singled out for unfair treatment or unkind words because of their ethnic background or religious faith.
George W. Bushborn 1946Freedom at War With Fear (2001)
- Religion
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
I say to you quite frankly that the time for racial discrimination is over.
Jimmy Carter1924–2024Gubernatorial Inaugural Address (12 January 1971)
If a man like Malcolm X could change and repudiate racism, if I myself and other former Muslims can change, if young whites can change, then there is hope for America.
Eldridge Cleaver1935–1998Soul on Ice (1968)
- Change
- Hope
The divide of race has been America’s constant curse.
Bill Clintonborn 1946Bill Clinton’s Second Inaugural Address (1997)
- America
The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much.
Joseph Conrad1857–1924Heart of Darkness (1899), Part IIn context
- Power
A colored man is precisely as much entitled to submit his candidacy in a party primary, as is any other citizen. The decision must be made by the constituents to whom he offers himself, and by nobody else.
Calvin Coolidge1872–1933Letter to Charles F. Gardner (1924)
- Politics
Yet do I marvel at this curious thing:
To make a poet black, and bid him sing!
Countee Cullen1903–1946Yet Do I Marvel (1925)In context
- Poetry
Prisons do not disappear problems, they disappear human beings. And the practice of disappearing vast numbers of people from poor, immigrant and racially marginalized communities has literally become big business.
Angela Davisborn 1944“Masked Racism” (1998)
- Justice
The destiny of the colored American … is the destiny of America.
Frederick Douglass1817–1895Speech at the Emancipation League (12 February 1862), Boston
- America