Race And Racism In America Quotes - Page 2

The instinct to tell our children that they are better than someone else’s children, based on nothing more than the color of their skin, is now a fossilized aberration that serves no useful purpose.

Aberjhani

Divided we are as people but if we stand together and fight we as a race will unite.

Alcurtis Turner

Only God can break through the variegated walls of skin to capture the one and only hue of the heart. One Blood.

Katelyne Parker

If origin defines race, then the entire human race is African.

When one attains self-knowledge, distinctions of race and religion vanish.

Acknowledging that all our land was stolen from Native people feels like too great a burden, so we create an alternative reality that allows us to disengage emotionally from the truth.

Racist legacy laws and modern racist practices are all part of the same system, and it needs to be changed now.

DaShanne Stokes

Electing a bigot enables further bigotry.

DaShanne Stokes

Discrimination does not 'make America great.' It makes America weak.

DaShanne Stokes

Prejudice plunges you into a world of fear and hate. That's no way to live.

DaShanne Stokes

...all the fears with which I had grown up, and which were now a part of me and controlled my vision of the world, rose up like a wall between the world and me...

When you've grown up mis-educated, surrounded by fear and hate, unaware of your privilege, lies can sound like the truth.

DaShanne Stokes

What matter most is to complete the journey.

Lailah Gifty Akita

That summer, in any case, all the fears with which I had grown up, and which were now a part of me and controlled my vision of the world, rose up like a wall between the world and me, and drove me into the church.