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• South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu walked by a construction site on a temporary sidewalk the width of one person. A white man appeared at the other end, recognized Tutu, and said, “I don’t make way for gorillas.” At which Tutu stepped aside, made a deep sweeping gesture, and said, “Ah, yes, but I do.”

  Walter Wink

  Topics in Leadership, Racism

  Tags in Nonviolence, Hatred

• Some white people hate black people, and some white people love black people, some black people hate white people, and some black people love white people. So you see it’s not an issue of black and white, it’s an issue of Lovers and Haters.

  Eden Ahbez

  Topics in Love, Racism

  Tags in Black And White, People, Hate

• One of the worst things about racism is what it does to young people.

  Alvin Ailey

  Topics in Racism

  Tags in People

• There is something strangely inconsistent about a nation and a press that would praise you when you say, “Be nonviolent toward Jim Clark,” but will curse and damn you when you say, “Be nonviolent toward little brown Vietnamese children.” There is something wrong with that press.

  Martin Luther King Jr

  Topics in Politics, Racism

  Tags in Nonviolence, War

• I want to reach young women and to get them involved in the mission of the YWCA, economic empowerment of women and girls, and ending racism.

  Patricia Ireland

  Topics in Racism

  Tags in Empowerment

• My answer to those who oppose my appointment as CEO is that this is really a decision of the YWCA. They want to strengthen their grassroots to advocate on behalf of women’s and children’s empowerment and ending racism.

  Patricia Ireland

  Topics in Racism

  Tags in Grassroots, Empowerment

• The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line.

  W. E. B. Du Bois

  Topics in Racism

• I think what I came through is great, but my son can take it to another level, not having to fight racism. His mother’s a Norwegian and I’m mixed up four or five times, so he can face the world.

  James Brown

  Topics in Racism

  Tags in Norwegian

• In world history, those who have helped to build the same culture are not necessarily of one race, and those of the same race have not all participated in one culture.

  Ruth Benedict

  Topics in Racism

• If you live in the elite world of dance, you find yourself in a world rife with racism. Let’s face it.

  Alvin Ailey

  Topics in Racism

  Tags in Rife, Elite, Dance

•  Accomplishments have no color.

  Leontyne Price

  Topics in Racism

• 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 Andrew Blackmun

  Topics in Racism

  Tags in Equality

• If you as parents cut corners, your children will too. If you lie, they will too. If you spend all your money on yourselves and tithe no portion of it for charities, colleges, churches, synagogues, and civic causes, your children won’t either. And if parents snicker at racial and gender jokes, another generation will pass on the poison adults still have not had the courage to snuff out.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Topics in Children, Family, Racism

• I am where I am because of the bridges that I crossed. Sojourner Truth was a bridge. Harriet Tubman was a bridge. Ida B. Wells was a bridge. Madame C. J. Walker was a bridge. Fannie Lou Hamer was a bridge.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Topics in Racism

• This is no simple reform. It really is a revolution. Sex and race because they are easy and visible differences have been the primary ways of organizing human beings into superior and inferior groups and into the cheap labour in which this system still depends. We are talking about a society in which there will be no roles other than those chosen or those earned. We are really talking about humanism.

  Gloria Steinem

  Topics in Racism

  Tags in Equality, Feminism, Humanism

• I stand here knowing that my story is part of the larger American story, that I owe a debt to all of those who came before me, and that in no other country on Earth is my story even possible.

  Barack Obama

  Topics in Racism

  Tags in Prejudice