“I never doubted my ability, but when you hear all your life you're inferior, it makes you wonder if the other guys have something you've never seen before. If they do, I'm still looking for it.”— Hank Aaron
“I ran away from home... I ran away from the United States of America, because of this terror of discrimination, this horrible beast which paralyzes one's very soul and body.”— Josephine Baker
“For me, the most terrible thing about South Africa is not the great injustices, but the little personal injustices.”— Peter Abrahams
“On the field, blacks have been able to be superstars. But once our playing days are over, this is the end of it and we go back to the back of the bus.”— Hank Aaron
“Prejudice is like a hair across your cheek. You can't see it, you can't find it with your fingers, but you keep brushing at it because the feel of it is irritating.”— Marian Anderson
“The logic behind white domination is to prepare the black man for the subservient role in this country.”— Steve Biko
“To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships.”— W. E. B. Du Bois
“Racism is not a joke. It is not 'banter'. It is a poison that has no place in our society.”— Diane Abbott
“When feminism does not explicitly oppose racism, and when anti-racism does not incorporate opposition to patriarchy, race and gender politics often end up being counterproductive.”— Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw