Tim Wise Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“If you want to know if racism is a problem in your country, you might not want to ask white people.”

“It's hard to say when or if we will actually arrive at that place called 'post-racial', or, better yet, post-racism.”

“Too often, systems of oppression turn those who are the targets of the oppression against one another.”

“Violating the 4th Amendment guarantees against illegal searches and seizures is not the way to solve crime problems.”

“When you allow racial disparity and institutional inequity to affect one part of the country, eventually it's coming back to get everyone.”

“Children are free moral agents and have a right to be exposed to a range of beliefs well beyond the rigid doctrinal confines of their parent's faith, and we have an obligation to insist that they be so exposed, at least in public schools, if not elsewhere.”

“I don't think the job of the antiracist is to convert the far-out heathen racist, or give them their 'come to Jesus' moment, as it's called. They'll either have those or they won't, and usually, when they have them, it's not because of something someone said per se; it's because of some life crisis that makes them rethink.”

“If we don't figure out a way to create equity, real equity, of opportunity and access, to good schools, housing, health care, and decent paying jobs, we're not going to survive as a productive and healthy society.”

“Our failure as a society to properly acknowledge and confront the psychological, social, and political effects of white privilege has perpetuated racial inequality and race-based political resentments.”

“Precisely because white denial has long trumped claims of racism, people of color tend to underreport their experiences with racial bias rather than exaggerate them.”