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"The challenges African-Americans are facing today are rooted in the system of slavery."
"It's a scary world we live in when a person of color endorses a racist for president."
"If only Al Sharpton were around, Lincoln would have known he was a victim of racism."
"We must treat the disease of racism. This means we must understand the disease."
"Racism tears down your insides so that no matter what you achieve, you're not quite up to snuff."
"You get so used to being hit you find you're always waiting for it. (...) How can I say what it feels like? I don't know. I know everybody's in trouble and nothing is easy, but how can I explain to you what it feels like to be black when I don't understand it and don't want to and spend all my time trying to forget it? I don't want to hate anybody - but now maybe, I can't love anybody either - are we friends? Can we really be friends?"
"A vision of cultural homogeneity that seeks to deflect attention away from or even excuse the oppressive, dehumanizing impact of white supremacy on the lives of black people by suggesting black people are racist too indicates that the culture remains ignorant of what racism really is and how it works. It shows that people are in denial. Why is it so difficult for many white folks to understand that racism is oppressive not because white folks have prejudicial feelings about blacks (they could have such feelings and leave us alone) but because it is a system that promotes domination and subjugation?"
"Their prejudice allowed white Southerners to look the other way when blacks were denied their most basic human rights, and it encouraged the worst of them to engage in unspeakable acts of cruelty and violence."
Explore more quotes by Constance Baker Motley
"In high school, I discovered myself. I was interested in race relations and the legal profession. I read about Lincoln and that he believed the law to be the most difficult of professions."
"New Orleans may well have been the most liberal Deep South city in 1954 because of its large Creole population, the influence of the French, and its cosmopolitan atmosphere."
"The Constitution, as originally drawn, made no reference to the fact that all Americans wre considered equal members of society."
"I was born and raised in the oldest settled part of the nation and in an environment in which racism was officially mooted."
"Sexism, like racism, goes with us into the next century. I see class warfare as overshadowing both."
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