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Issa Rae | Networks are too fearful of ostracizing people and aren't willing to fully address race. I've always had an issue with the [assumption] that people of color, and black people especially, aren't relatable. I know we are | Delete |
Jackie Robinson | A life isn't significant except for its impact on other lives. | Delete |
Jackie Robinson | You'll never get to second with your foot on first | Delete |
James Baldwin | People pay for what they do and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it very simply; by the lives they lead | Delete |
James Baldwin | Not everything that is faced can be changed until it is faced | Delete |
James Baldwin | The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world's definitions | Delete |
James Baldwin | The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose | Delete |
James Baldwin | The only thing that white people have that black people need, or should want, is power--and no one holds power forever | Delete |
James Cone | Truth knows no color, it appeals to intelligence | Delete |
James Earl Jones | Once you begin to explain or excuse all events on racial grounds, you begin to indulge in the perilous mythology of race | Delete |
Janelle Gray | The problem is, some officers put more stock in their title instead of their duty. Yes, your job title is "police." But your duty is to protect and serve. Start there. | Delete |
Jesse Jackson | If you fall behind, run faster. Never give up, never surrender, and rise up against the odds | Delete |
Jesse Jackson | We have long lines at the death of someone but short lines for voting | Delete |
John Hope Franklin | I am afraid that I cannot 'tidy' up the history that Americans themselves have made. | Delete |
John Lewis | I believe in freedom of speech, but I also believe that we have an obligation to condemn speech that is racist, bigoted, anti-Semitic, or hateful | Delete |