1) There is no such thing as race. None. There is just a human race — scientifically, anthropologically.
-Toni Morrison
2) Excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism.
-Oprah Winfrey
3) In a racist society, it is not enough to be non-racist. We must be anti-racist.
-Angela Davis
4) Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
-Martin Luther King Jr.
5) It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.
-Audre Lorde
6) None of us is responsible for the complexion of his skin. This fact of nature offers no clue to the character or quality of the person underneath.
-Marian Anderson
7) No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.
-Nelson Mandela
8) The beauty of anti-racism is that you don't have to pretend to be free of racism to be an anti-racist. Anti-racism is the commitment to fight racism wherever you find it, including in yourself. And it's the only way forward.
- Ijeoma Oluo
9) “Whether or not any of us become racists is a choice we make. And we are called to choose again and again where we stand on the issue of racism at different moments in our life.”
- Bell Hooks
10) Achievement has no color
-Abraham Lincoln
Compiled by
Instanewsgram Staff