Ruth Negga Quotes

I say we haven't ended racial caste in America; we have merely redesigned it.

The patterns have become unmistakable and undeniable. ... We have to come to terms with some hard truths about race and justice in America.

The national conversation around white entitlement, around institutionalized racism, the Black Lives Matter movement, I think, came about in large part because of the widening and broadening of our understanding of inequality. That conversation was begun by Occupy.

Well, the white race in America is the same way. As individuals it is impossible for them to escape the collective crime committed against the Negroes in this country, collectively.

The truth is, no, we don't live in a post-racial state anywhere in America, and this is particularly true in Hollywood.

As I often say, we have come a long way from the days of slavery, but in 2014, discrimination and inequality still saturate our society in modern ways. Though racism may be less blatant now in many cases, its existence is undeniable.

So the mayor of New Orleans would have used his own buses had the people had been white?

Seems to me that the institutions that function in this country are clearly racist, and that they're built upon racism.

Blacks essentially play the race card, when necessary as a counter to white privilege.

Perhaps no statistic better illustrates the enduring legacy of our country’s shameful history of treating black people as sub-citizens, sub-Americans, and sub-humans than the wealth gap.

The industry looks for white actors and actresses, but it's not the same for black actors. We have to really put the work in.

As a parent, you want to protect your children, but the fact of racism in this country, of inequality, that is still a lesson my children are going to have to learn. I can't protect my kids from that.

White people need to wake up and tell the truth about US history and the inequality and the ways in which racism is so entrenched.

Whiteness is dynamic, relational, and operating at all times and on myriad levels. These processes and practices include basic rights, values, beliefs, perspectives and experiences purported to be commonly shared by all but which are actually only consistently afforded to white people.

Far too often, I have been accepted or rejected for work because of the color of my skin.

The reality is we have allowed systemic racism to continue through all these years.

It seems like racism in the United States is overflowing.

I think the O.J. Simpson trial was a revelation about the ongoing patterns of racial difference in American society.

The mass criminalization of white men would disturb us to the core.

Any negro who occupies a position that was given to him by the white man, if you analyze his function, his function never enables him to really take a firm, uncompromising, militant stand on problems that confront our people.

It's impossible for a white person to believe in capitalism and not believe in racism.

We are still conditioning people in this country and, indeed, all over the globe to the myth of white superiority. We are constantly being told that we don't have racism in this country anymore, but most of the people who are saying that are white. White people think it isn't happening because it isn't happening to them.

We have not ended racial caste in America, we have merely redesigned it.

Barack Obama is the president of the United States of America. More specifically, Barack Obama is the president of a congenitally racist country, erected upon the plunder of life, liberty, labor, and land. This plunder has not been exclusive to black people. - Ta

The international community cannot accept that whole communities are marginalized because of the color of their skin. People of African descent are among those most affected by racism. Too often, they face denial of basic rights such as access to quality health services and education. Such fundamental wrongs have a long and terrible history.