Anti Racism Quotes

“Blacks aren't bigger, it's documented in their tribal photos. (The quote that end's anti-Black racism)”
― Matthew Edward Hall, San Mateo: Proof of The Divine

“To disassociate darkness from evil.”
― Matthew Edward Hall, San Mateo: Proof of The Divine

“To heal racism, is to heal insecurity.”
― San Mateo, San Mateo: Proof of The Divine

“We don’t think you fight fire with fire best ; we think you fight fire with water best. We’re going to fight racism not with racism, but we’re going to fight with solidarity. We say we’re not going to fight capitalism with black capitalism, but we’re going to fight it with socialism. We’re stood up and said we’re not going to fight reactionary pigs and reactionary state’s attorneys like this and reactionary state’s attorneys like Hanrahan with any other reactions on our part. We’re going to fight their reactions with all of us people getting together and having an international proletarian revolution.”
― Fred Hampton

“I believe in human beings, and that all human beings should be respected as such, regardless of their color”
― Malcolm X

“If you believe in a cause, be willing to stand up for that cause with a million people or by yourself.”
― Otis S. Johnson, FROM "N" WORD TO MR. MAYOR

“Becoming conscious of racism does not mean you are a racist.”
― Oscar Auliq-Ice

“We all have a sphere of influence. Each of us needs to find our own sources of courage so that we can begin to speak. There are many problems to address, and we cannot avoid them indefinitely. We cannot continue to be silent. We must begin to speak, knowing that words alone are insufficient. But I have seen that meaningful dialogue can lead to effective action. Change is possible.”
― Beverly Daniel Tatum, Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?

“A young nurse, someone new whom he didn't recognise, came up to Henry and patted him on the arm. "Are you a friend or a family member?" She whispered the question in his ear, trying not to disturb Sheldon.

The question hung there like a beautiful chord, ringing in the air. Henry was Chinese, Sheldon obviously wasn't. They looked nothing alike. Nothing at all. "I'm distant family," Henry said.”
― Jamie Ford, Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet

“There is a great new work before us, which is to replace with true knowledge the ignorance that has destroyed human minds. We will construct unity in a world [which] has been brutally torn apart by false divisions of race, religion, gender, nationality, and age. We will heal with unconditional love those souls whose hearts have been disfigured by hatred and loneliness.”
― Aberjhani, Songs from the Black Skylark zPed Music Player

“Many unlearning racism workshops focus on helping white individuals to see that they too are wounded by racism and as a consequence have something to gain from participating in anti-racist struggle. While in some ways true, a construction of political solidarity that is rooted in a narrative of shared victimization not only acts to recenter whites, it risks obscuring the particular ways racist domination impacts on the lives of marginalized groups. Implicit in the assumption that even those who are privileged via racist hierarchy suffer is the notion that it is only when those in power get in touch with how they too are victimized will they rebel against structures of domination. The truth is that many folks benefit greatly from dominating others and are not suffering a wound that is in any way similar to the condition of the exploited and oppressed.
Anti-racist work that tries to get these individuals to see themselves as "victimized" by racism in the hopes that this will act as an intervention is a misguided strategy. And indeed we must be willing to acknowledge that individuals of great privilege who are in no way victimized are capable, via their political choices, of working on behalf of the oppressed. Such solidarity does not need to be rooted in shared experience. It can be based on one's political and ethical understanding of racism and one's rejection of domination.”
― bell hooks, Black Looks: Race and Representation

“When bigots get loud, we gotta make our existence even louder.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Neurosonnets: The Naskar Art of Neuroscience

“Drink to whatever it is I'm headed, and don't let there be any Japs or Chinks or Jews or Poles or Niggers or Frenchies, but only people.”
― John Okada, No-No Boy

“Any charity that does not have a core mission to empower the communities they are serving is problematic.”
― Nova Reid

“There is much more to doing good work than ‘making a difference’. There is the principle of first do no harm.”
― Nova Reid

“Often, the performative ally professes allegiance in order to distance themselves from potential scrutiny.”
― Carmen Morris

“Performative allyship does not engage on a complex level. It consists of low level, often ill-informed rhetorical statements that are usually obvious to Black and Brown employees and real allies, of the anti racist, racially inclusive agenda. It lacks genuine concern and does little to acknowledge the very behaviours that support structural and process driven racism.”
― Carmen Morris

“Anti-Racism is Not a Performance Game”
― Carmen Morris

“I wrote this book to inspire young women to be brave and believe in themselves.”
― Sherine Calloway, Sättet du älskar

“Our paths are different because we are not the same. Our paths will meet because we are working for the same thing. It may feel uncomfortable when our different paths connect because our experiences and histories are different. We have different strengths and those will come in handy as we build a strong coalition of solidarity partners...”
― Tiffany Jewell, This Book Is Anti-Racist: 20 Lessons on How to Wake Up, Take Action, and Do the Work

“At work, Anders became quieter than he used to be, less sure of how any action of his would be perceived, and it was like he had been recast as a supporting character on the set of the television show where his life was being enacted, but even so he had not yet lost all hope that a return to his old role was possible, to his old centrality, or if not centrality, then at least to a role better than this peripheral one.”
― Mohsin Hamid, The Last White Man

“Sister Rosa, Malcolm X and Dr. King
Showed us we got power, showed what changes we could bring
To change society you have gotta change the law
Their bodies may be gone but their spirits still live on”
― Bobby Gillespie

“You know what Black means? BLACK means Brave, BLACK means Leaderly, BLACK means Adventurous, BLACK means Considerate, BLACK means Kind.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Bulldozer on Duty

“Anomaly today, norm tomorrow.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Neurosonnets: The Naskar Art of Neuroscience

“Selma to Montgomery, from river to the sea,
We stand guard, with no weapon but our dignity.
Reason is our ark, love is our compass -
Colored, White, Muslim and otherwise, together
we shall overcome - All Awake to Humanity!”
― Abhijit Naskar, Neurosonnets: The Naskar Art of Neuroscience

“Unassimilability is a proposition to refuse to belong here altogether, together.”
― Biana Mabute-Louis

“Selma to Montgomery,
from river to the sea,
we stand guard,
All Awake to Humanity!”
― Abhijit Naskar, Neurosonnets: The Naskar Art of Neuroscience

“When a 10 ounce heart drops on a racist in its complete wholeness, the very idea of race is blown out of existence.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Sonnets From The Mountaintop

“Call out the monkeys in a million different ways - make intolerance the most unacceptable tradition in human history.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Nazmahal: Palace of Grace

“No colored wants your guilt, just be human and acknowledge.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Nazmahal: Palace of Grace