Stewart Butterfield Quotes

And if you want to make many of our black leaders angry, just tell them that racism is not the number problem that black Americans face.

Racism is a way to gain economic advantage at the expense of others. Slavery and plantations may be gone, but racism still allows us to regard those who may keep us from financial gain as less than equals.

The black family survived centuries of slavery and generations of Jim Crow, but it has disintegrated in the wake of the liberals' expansion of the welfare state.

You know, people'd always ask 'Why is Jesse Jackson running for the White House?' They never seen the house I'm running from.

You have no understanding of what it is to live in a community surcharged with an idle, dissolute, vicious, ignorant negro population just emerged from slavery.

Racial injustice, war, urban blight, and environmental rape have a common denominator in our exploitative economic system.

Not only are whites kicking us; they are telling us how to react to being kicked.

All God’s dangers ain’t White men.

Opportunity seems to be color-coded here in America

Tonight the Negro knows from his radio and television that a Congo native can be a locomotive engineer, but in Jackson [Mississippi] he cannot even drive a garbage truck.

Negro poverty is not white poverty. Many of its causes and many of its cures are the same. But there are differences—deep, corrosive, obstinate differences—radiating painful roots into the community and into the family, and the nature of the individual. These differences are not racial differences. They are solely and simply the consequence of ancient brutality, past injustice, and present prejudice.

You spend your whole lifetime in your occupation, actually making life clever, easy and convenient for white people. But when you have to get transportation home, you are denied an equal accommodation. Our existence was for the white man's comfort and well-being; we had to accept being deprived of just being human.

The black man has become a shell, a shadow of man, completely defeated, drowning in his own misery, a slave, an ox bearing the yoke of oppression with sheepish timidity.

You have to start with slavery because those abuses have never been eradicated. You know, people are not living in slums because they voted to. You know, their children are not in jail because they wanted them to. You know, these are the results of a people who have been oppressed and suffer national oppression, you know.

The success of the few does not excuse the caste-like system that exists for many. In fact, black exceptionalism - the high-profile, highly visible examples of the black success - actually serves to justify and rationalize mass incarceration.

I think 'Mudbound' reveals the interconnectiveness of our stories. You can't separate out threads of history and race as economic construct. 'Mudbound' makes it very plain. Race is about commerce; it's not an actual thing. It's a fiction that was created to basically divide resources unequally.

God blessed us with all this money, so why not take the money and put it into my brother's case? Talk about social and racial injustice in our country, and mass incarceration in our country?

Under Trump, black lives will become even more vulnerable to state violence.

The more that I learn about what's going on, it's really hard to ignore the oppression that people are actually going through.

Some issues just need to be dealt with - that we're still dealing with in the world, with police brutality and racism.

We must acknowledge that issues like systemic racism, economic inequality, and the achievement gap are the result of manmade policies.

Racism is just the symptom, but the fight is economic.

Separate but equal does not work.

I don't wanna believe that racism exists, but the more I wish it away, the more I realize it's in our system.

I was born outraged. I was born without, knowing my people were not counted, not included, not centered. I struggled through low-resourced schools, communities, and housing projects.