Black Like Me

“It’s high time we stopped giving the communists credit for every decent, brave, considerate act” white men might show in regard to black men.

To call for a little more justice, or a moderately gradual sort of justice, is to call for no justice. That is a simple truth.

but they have warned me that any time the police see a Negro idling, especially one they do not recognize, they will surely question him. This is worrisome, certainly an experience any Negro wants to avoid.

“Racist Sins of Christians” was first published in 1963 by Sign magazine

“blackness was not a color but a lived experience.”

Every religion professes the sacredness of human rights, but Catholic officials rationalized their discrimination “for fear of alienating souls.”

every culture teaches us to honor its way while subtly denigrating other cultures.

though prejudice changes names—colonialism, racism, genocide, anti-Semitism, apartheid, ethnic-cleansing and profiling—every alias results in the same injustice. We shall remain prisoners of culture unless we become aware of the process and force ourselves to confront it and to deprogram it.

there is no Other - that the Other is simply Oneself in all the significant essentials.