Jane Elliott

“It's not our job to be liked. It's our job to be effective.”

“White people are the only people who think they have the right to be comfortable at all times.”

“You can't be a little bit pregnant and you can't be a little bit racist.”

“We have a sickness in this country. It's called racism. It's a learned disease. And the only way to cure it is to unlearn it.”

“White people have a very, very serious problem, and they don't know it.”

“I'm not doing this to make people feel comfortable. I'm doing this to make people think.”

“You are not born a bigot. You have to be carefully taught.”

“Prejudice is an emotional commitment to ignorance.”

“We are all members of the same race, the human race.”

“We don't need a melting pot in this country, folks. We need a salad bowl. In a salad bowl, you put in the different things... you can still see the different parts, but they're all working together.”

“If you are not actively anti-racist, you are a racist.”

“God did not create any superior people. There is no master race. God created a human race.”

“Racism is a learned response. It's not a natural response.”

“This is an evil system. It's a system of racism. And you are a part of it, whether you want to be or not.”

“Nobody is born a racist or a bigot, a homophobe, a sexist, an anti-Semite or anything else. This stuff is taught.”

“You can't be a 'little bit' pregnant. You're either pregnant or you're not. You can't be a 'little bit' of a racist.”

“We have to change our minds. We have to change our hearts. And then we have to change our behavior.”

“Ignorance is not bliss. Ignorance is bliss for the ignorant. For the rest of us, it's a pain in the ass.”

“Learn to be human. We are all members of the human race. And the human race is the only race that matters.”

“Ignorance is not bliss. Ignorance is apathy. Ignorance is fear. Ignorance is hate. Ignorance is murder. And it's killing us.”