Bernice King Quotes

Institutionalized racism has been with us pre-Obama, and it obviously will be with us post-Obama.

Bernice King

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• I wanted to go into prison and come out a better person - mentally, physically. So, I read a lot of books, got my GED while I was in there, and worked out every day. Strong body, strong mind.

  

  Ja Rule
  • Mind
  • Strong
  • Day

• Racism is a physical experience.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Experience
  • Racism
  • Physical

• Because animals are property, we consider as 'humane treatment' that we would regard as torture if it were inflicted on humans.

  

  Gary L. Francione
  • Animals
  • Property
  • Torture

• The only way we can challenge Islamism is to engage with one another. We need to make it as abhorrent as racism has become today. Only then will we stem the tide of angry young Muslims who turn to hate.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Today
  • Hate
  • Challenge

• We live in a world where sports have the potential to bridge the gap between racism, sexism and discrimination. The 2012 Olympic Games was a great start but hopefully what these games taught us is that if women are given an opportunity on an equal playing field the possibilities for women are endless.

  

  Jackie Joyner-Kersee
  • World
  • Great
  • Live

• Racism still exists in the sport of boxing.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Racism
  • Boxing
  • Still

• Any concept of one person being superior to another can lead to racism.

  

  Walter Lang
  • Person
  • Racism
  • Lead

• Redlining went beyond FHA-backed loans and spread to the entire mortgage industry, which was already rife with racism, excluding black people from most legitimate means of obtaining a mortgage.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • People
  • Black
  • Racism

• Simple peck-order bullying is only the beginning of the kind of hierarchical behavior that can lead to racism, sexism, ethnocentrism, classism, and all the other 'isms' that cause so much suffering in the world.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • World
  • Simple
  • Beginning

• Love is the expansion of two natures in such fashion that each include the other, each is enriched by the other.

  

  Felix Adler
  • Love
  • Fashion
  • Expansion

• I sometimes feel that racism is getting worse.

  

  Tahar Rahim
  • Sometimes
  • Feel
  • Racism

• Just as we reject racism, sexism, ageism, and heterosexism, we reject speciesism. The species of a sentient being is no more reason to deny the protection of this basic right than race, sex, age, or sexual orientation is a reason to deny membership in the human moral community to other humans.

  

  Gary L. Francione
  • Age
  • Community
  • Moral

• I wanted to have a body of work behind me before I wrote about racism.

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • Work
  • Me
  • Racism

• We must confront our own racism. Discriminatory housing and employment policies are nothing more than institutionalised racism.

  

  Tariq Ramadan
  • Nothing
  • Racism
  • Own

• My generation of Americans was the first to really care about racism and sexism, not to mention the I Ching, plus, of course, the Earth.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Earth
  • Care
  • Racism

• The American Negro never can be blamed for his racial animosities - he is only reacting to 400 years of the conscious racism of the American whites.

  

  Malcolm X
  • American
  • Racism
  • Racial

• I've seen people glaze over when they're confronted with racism, and there's nothing more, you know, damning and demeaning to having any kind of ideology than people just walking the walk and saying what they're supposed to say and nodding, and nobody feels anything.

  

  Kara Walker
  • People
  • Walking
  • Racism

• The norm is white, apparently, in the view of people who see things in that way. For them, the only reason you would introduce a black character is to introduce this kind of abnormality. Usually, it's because you're telling a story about racism or at least about race.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • People
  • Character
  • Black

• For everybody, I think that we all, when we look at this situation of race, we need a change of heart, and I said it before. I believe the heart change comes from repenting of your racism, repenting of your bias, repenting of your prejudice and understanding that, you know what, God sees us all the same.

  

  Benjamin Watson
  • God
  • Believe
  • Heart

• I've seen racism in my audiences. For example, I've seen people laugh at every other group, but then clam up when it comes to their community. You can't laugh at everyone else and then not laugh at yourself. You shouldn't be at my show if you can't laugh at yourself.

  

  Russell Peters
  • People
  • Community
  • Laughing

• The worst situation you can have in a thriller is a lead who looks like he can handle himself.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • Situation
  • Worst
  • Lead

• People have no idea how hard football is, absolutely no idea. It's all about pace. You can say, 'Yeah, you've got speed of thought' - but you've got to have a little bit of a zip.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • People
  • Football
  • Thought

• Equal opportunity is good, but special privilege is better.

  

  Anna Chennault
  • Opportunity
  • Equal
  • Privilege

• Institutionalized racism has been with us pre-Obama, and it obviously will be with us post-Obama.

  

  Bernice King
  • Racism