An America that looks away is ignoring not just the sins of the past but the sins of the present and the certain sins of the future..

The best part of writing is not the communication of knowledge to other people, but the acquisition and synthesizing of knowledge for oneself..

Racism is, among other things, the unearned skepticism of one group of humans joined to the unearned sympathy for another..

You can live in the world of myth and be taken seriously..

Two hundred fifty years of slavery. Ninety years of Jim Crow. Sixty years of separate but equal. Thirty-five years of racist housing policy. Until we….

[E]mpathy - not squishy self-serving conflict avoidance - is the hand-maiden, not the enemy, of reason and intellectual inquiry..

I did not know then that this is what life is - just when you master the geometry of one world, it slips away, and suddenly again, you're swarmed by ….

What I’m talking about is more than recompense for past injustices—more than a handout, a payoff, hush money, or a reluctant bribe. What I’m talking ….

The essence of American racism is disrespect..

Segregations, by which I mean people living in a certain area, was a planned system. It was made that way. And what you have is a system in which peo….

When you have a policy of making sure that African Americans cannot build wealth, of plundering African American communities of wealth, giving opport….

Just because you came here in 1880, 1950, whenever, you became an American. You get to celebrate July 4th like every other American. You don't just g….

Racism is not merely a simplistic hatred. It is, more often, broad sympathy toward some and broader skepticism toward others..

I think the sad fact is, there's a long history in this country at looking at African-American as subhuman. And I think that's reflected in the fact ….

The standard progressive approach of the moment is to mix color-conscious moral invective with color-blind public policy..

Never forget that we were enslaved in this country longer than we have been free. Never forget that for 250 years black people were born into chains-….

I am not asking you as a white person to see yourself as an enslaver. I'm asking you as an American to see all of the freedoms that you enjoy and see….

If George Washington crossing the Delaware matters, so must his ruthless pursuit of the runagate Oney Judge..

What sets black people apart is not some deficit in personal responsibility. It's the weight on our shoulders. That is what's actually different. We ….

To prevent enabling oppression, we demand that black people be twice as good. To prevent verifying stereotypes, we pledge to never eat a slice a wate….

When nonviolence begins halfway through the war with the aggressor calling time out, it exposes itself as a ruse..