Harry Edwards Quotes

We cannot afford to be color-blind, we have to be color-brave.

I'm someone very interested in diversity, equity, social justice, and getting rid of white supremacy.

It's not enough to just not be racist. You've got to be anti-racist. You've got to hold everybody accountable.

Certainly we can end racism with love. We can demand that the federal government change its emphasis on racial distinction.

There are cultural biases built into testing, and that was one of the motivations for the concept of affirmative action - to try to balance out those effects.

I, for one, would think both about how far we have come as a country and how much further we need to go to erase racism and discrimination from our society.

I can't explain exactly why it lives within me for so long and passionately. But race matters to me; racial equality matters to me, as does gender. There is something about these kinds of social injustices that go to the deep of me.

Unless we bring in blacks as full partners, my country won’t be fit for my grandchildren.

To ignore race and sex is racist and sexist.

We suspect that 25 years from now the use of racial preferences will no longer be necessary.

The new integration plans being offered are really just quota systems to assure a certain number of blacks, Chicanos or whatever in each school… What it says is, ‘In order for your child with curly black hair, brown eyes, and dark skin to be able to learn anything, he needs to sit next to my blond-haired, blue-eyed son.’ That’s racist! Who the hell do we think we are, that the only way a black man or woman can learn is if they rub shoulders with my white child?

It's not good enough to say we value diversity and then underrepresent women and minorities.

If I only care about equality for transgender people, then I am leaving so many people behind - if I'm not at the same time seeking to end discrimination against people of color, seeking to end discrimination against women, seeking to ensure that people of every religious background have an equal opportunity.

What I remember about race relations in the 1990s is that you showed your awareness by saying you didn't see race, that you were colour-blind.

There are positive steps being taken to tackle issues that people from all walks of life, races, ethnicities, and political persuasions agree have been devastating to communities of color.

Black History in 2019 and beyond is all about inclusivity.

There is no future without all of us - black, brown and white - coming together.

I felt like there was something I needed to do - speaking to kids and sharing my story with them and helping them understand racism has no place in the minds and hearts of children.

I don't feel that I've been hampered by [ racism or discrimination], and the reason why is that we reach out to people on the basis of where everyone meets, and try to build common cause on that basis. Because of that, I think we've cut through some of the issues that normally divide people.

Look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin.

I'm asking you not to be color blind, but to be color brave.

I believe we should work to end all racism in American society and staunchly defend the inherent rights of every person.

Race prejudice can't be talked down, it must be lived down.

I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.

Feminism is rooted in racial rights and gender rights, and all of those things intersect, and to say that that's not something you can stand behind - it confuses me. I think it's a really great word.