“Racist ideas make people of color think less of themselves, which makes them more vulnerable to racist ideas. Racist ideas make White people think more of themselves, which further attracts them to racist ideas.”

- Ibram X. Kendi

- How to Be an Antiracist

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Tolerance is the attitude of mind of those who consider themselves not only different but superior. It implies an attitude toward different ethnic or minority groups, not of understanding, not of acceptance, not of recognition of human equality, but of recognition of differences which one must suffer—generally, not too gladly. We must be more than tolerant; we must be fair.

- Ashley Montagu, Man’s Most Dangerous Myth: The Fallacy of Myth (1942), 5th Edition, p. 178.

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“When we think racism, what comes to mind should be structures. When we think racist, what comes to mind should be an individual, an idea, a policy—the elements making up the structure of racism.”

- Ibram X. Kendi

- How to Be an Antiracist (paperback edition)

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Stressing superficial differences between people only helps to maintain the illusion that there may be more fundamental differences behind them. What in truth and in justice requires to be done is to stress the fundamental kinship of all mankind: to stress the likenesses which we all bear to one another, and to recognize the essential unity in all mankind in the very differences which individuals of all ethnic groups display.

- Ashley Montagu

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“If we don’t do the basic work of defining the kind of people we want to be in language that is stable and consistent, we can’t work toward stable, consistent goals.”

- Ibram X. Kendi

- How to Be an Antiracist

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“Are (you) reinforcing or challenging the structure of racism?

Are (you) building a new structure of antiracism?”

-Ibram X. Kendi

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