Anti-Racism Quotes

The only remedy to past discrimination is present discrimination. The only remedy to present discrimination is future discrimination.

Nigger, nigger, nigger. If I don't achieve anything else while I am President, I intend to wipe that word out of the English language.

The black radical agenda, which pushes us closer to freedom and the agenda to which I subscribe, calls for an eradication of white supremacy and an adoption of values and traditions endowed from the black experience.

Up you mighty race!

There has been no more principled opposition to racism than Jeremy Corbyn: he was getting arrested for protesting against Apartheid when the rest of them were doing deals and calling Nelson Mandela a terrorist.

I'm inspired by people like Nelson Mandela. Can you imagine - you know how racist America was back then - imagine how racism was in South Africa when he had to stand up and say what he had to say. That's bravery beyond comprehension.

The world has made being black a crime .... I hope to make it a virtue.

I want to stay in the European Union which is the best trade deal we could possibly have, but we need to call out racism.

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Black power means Black dignity

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Southern change gonna come at last! Now your crosses are burning fast, Southern Man.

I think that in his 39 short years of life, Malcolm X came to symbolize Black urban America, its culture, its politics, its militancy, its outrage against structural racism and at the end of his life, a broad internationalist vision of emancipatory power far better than any other single individual that he shared with DuBois and Paul Robeson, a pan-Africanist internationalist perspective.

It's about being fair. It's about Black Lives Matter. Yes, they matter. Everybody counts or nobody counts, and I think if more cops had the philosophy of Harry Bosch, we'd have less of these situations happening.

I never thought about myself as an activist when we were coming along. I love the people I love. I didn't care whether they could be a Democrat, Republican, communist... anything but a racist.

Black Lives Matter is not just concerned with what happens in policing. The disregard, the disrespect, and the lack of dignity for black life transcends through the fabric of our society.

What is invaluable about Angela Davis' work is that she does not limit her politics to issues removed from broader social considerations, but connects every aspect of her scholarship and public interventions to what the contours of a truly democratic society might look like.

All lives matter, including black lives, which is a value we should be striving for rather than condemning.

You have to be an anti-racist to not be racist. Because it's just a cultural tide that will pull you into it if you're not swimming against it.

I believe we should work to end all racism in American society and staunchly defend the inherent rights of every person.

I identify... with the ideas that Malcolm X stood for.

I am not a racist in any form whatsoever. I don't believe in any form of discrimination or segregation.

I think we can continue to do as much protesting as we want. Systemic racism needs to be changed from within.

I'm someone very interested in diversity, equity, social justice, and getting rid of white supremacy.

I was born in the 1960s. I came up in the 1970s. I know how race relations were. The thing is, I want to advance the ball and never return to those days again. I want to keep the topic going. I'm going to discuss it. And we're going to make America better. It's my job as a citizen, and I demand it.