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1. “There clearly is a serious race problem in the country. Just take a look at what's happening to African American communities. For example wealth, wealth in African American communities is almost zero. The history is striking.”
Noam Chomsky
Racial Inequality, African American Communities, Wealth Disparity, Social Justice, Historical Context
4. “The glorification of one race and the consequent debasement of another – or others – always has been and always will be a recipe for murder. There is no way around this. If one is permitted to treat any group of people with special disfavor because of their race or the color of their skin, there is no limit to what one will force them to endure, and, since the entire race has been mysteriously indicted, no reason not to attempt to destroy it root and branch.” James Baldwin Racism, Racial violence, Racial inequality, Social justice, Hatred, Historical violence
5. “Try to imagine how you would feel if you woke up one morning to find the sun shining and all the stars aflame. You would be frightened because it is out of the order of nature. Any upheaval in the universe is terrifying because it so profoundly attacks one’s sense of one’s own reality. Well, the black man has functioned in the white man’s world as a fixed star, as an immovable pillar: and as he moves out of his place, heaven and earth are shaken to their foundation.” James Baldwin Racial Inequality, Societal Change, Fear, Systemic Racism, Human Reality, Upheaval
7. “The Constitution gives you the right, as a white man, to have a rifle in your home. The Constitution gives you the right to protect yourself. Why is it ‘ominous’ when black people even talk of having rifles? Why don’t we have the right to self-defense? Is it because maybe you know we’re going to have to defend ourselves against you?” James Baldwin Racial Inequality, Self-Defense Rights, Constitutional Rights, Racial Justice, Power Dynamics, Social Disparities
Racial Inequality Quotes by Famous Authors
1. “There clearly is a serious race problem in the country. Just take a look at what's happening to African American communities. For example wealth, wealth in African American communities is almost zero. The history is striking.”
Noam Chomsky Racial Inequality, African American Communities, Wealth Disparity, Social Justice, Historical Context
4. “The glorification of one race and the consequent debasement of another – or others – always has been and always will be a recipe for murder. There is no way around this. If one is permitted to treat any group of people with special disfavor because of their race or the color of their skin, there is no limit to what one will force them to endure, and, since the entire race has been mysteriously indicted, no reason not to attempt to destroy it root and branch.”
James Baldwin Racism, Racial violence, Racial inequality, Social justice, Hatred, Historical violence
5. “Try to imagine how you would feel if you woke up one morning to find the sun shining and all the stars aflame. You would be frightened because it is out of the order of nature. Any upheaval in the universe is terrifying because it so profoundly attacks one’s sense of one’s own reality. Well, the black man has functioned in the white man’s world as a fixed star, as an immovable pillar: and as he moves out of his place, heaven and earth are shaken to their foundation.”
James Baldwin Racial Inequality, Societal Change, Fear, Systemic Racism, Human Reality, Upheaval
7. “The Constitution gives you the right, as a white man, to have a rifle in your home. The Constitution gives you the right to protect yourself. Why is it ‘ominous’ when black people even talk of having rifles? Why don’t we have the right to self-defense? Is it because maybe you know we’re going to have to defend ourselves against you?”
James Baldwin Racial Inequality, Self-Defense Rights, Constitutional Rights, Racial Justice, Power Dynamics, Social Disparities
