Margaret Cho Quotes
I got back from Toronto, where they had a severe outbreak of SARS- you know, Severe Asian Racism Syndrome.
Margaret Cho
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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
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I wanted to have a body of work behind me before I wrote about racism.
Malorie Blackman
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We must confront our own racism. Discriminatory housing and employment policies are nothing more than institutionalised racism.
Tariq Ramadan
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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
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We have this long history of racism in this country, and as it happens, the criminal justice system has been perhaps the most prominent instrument for administering racism. But the racism doesn't actually come from the criminal justice system.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
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When people today say 'racism,' they mean it's a nationalism they don't like. Racialism used to be a good thing, a looking-out for what was best for one group... Israel comes out of that 19th-century idea of nationalism. Many Arab states also have preferences. It's fundamentally unfair to decide that one is racism and the others aren't.
Ian Lustick
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I don't have a television, and I'm just not too up on television.
Wallace Shawn
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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
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The thing people have to remember is there's nothing natural about racism as it exists in America. I mean, we know this historically. We can look at 1619, when Africans first came here, and how early African slaves intermixed pretty indiscriminately with indentured white servants.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
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Beautiful film music can be made relevant to any period.
A. R. Rahman
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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
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To me the earth's most explosive and pernicious evil is racism, the inability of God's creatures to live as One, especially in the Western world.
Malcolm X
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My dad worked two jobs and moved us to the suburbs, and just being a black person, I went through a lot of racism and being called names and being bullied every single day. And it was hard. I didn't have any friends.
Sherri Shepherd
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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
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The thing is that what you see on Snapchat, that's DJ Khaled. That's Khaled for real. That's Khaled.
DJ Khaled
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I was being foolish. An atheist can't stand behind their assertion that God doesn't exist. The stupidest thing I ever could have done was to reject His Truth.
Kirk Cameron
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I have a lot of trouble understanding how people see me as a celebrity. I work 14 hours a day, and then I just want to talk to my family, see the people I love, pet my dog, and go to bed. I'm not looking to be best friends with or emulate a celebrity.
America Ferrera
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I got back from Toronto, where they had a severe outbreak of SARS- you know, Severe Asian Racism Syndrome.
Margaret Cho
