Racism Quotes
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It is not possible to erase racism just because African-Americans have reached a level of financial success and crossover appeal.
Farrah Gray
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Part of the sin of Pride is a subtle but deep racism.
K. P. Yohannan
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Antiblack racism is not only happening in the United States. It's actually happening all across the globe.
Opal Tometi
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We still have to struggle against the impact of racism, but it doesn't happen in the same way. I think it is much more complicated today than it ever was.
Angela Davis
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If you live in the elite world of dance, you find yourself in a world rife with racism. Let's face it.
Alvin Ailey
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Racism is America's greatest disease, racism is a disease of the white man.
Albert Einstein
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Education in this country is about how to maintain the status quo and to perpetuate racism.
Jane Elliott
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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
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Racism is a part of a problem, a world problem, which has to be overcome.
F. W. de Klerk
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As much as we want to say racism is dead, it's still rearing its ugly head constantly.
Kenya Barris
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Every day of my life I have been in situations, not just in Mexico, in the US too, in which I identified the form of operation as racism. There are situations in which a smile, a laugh, a greeting are racist exercises.
Bocafloja
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It is not like the white Republican, the conservative, who clears it up for you and says, "I don't like you", to your face and then you know immediately he is an antagonist. Racism operates in a lot of ways, and so I live it every day.
Bocafloja
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Racism in Brazil is well hidden, subtle, and unspoken, underestimated by the media. It is nevertheless extremely violent.
Joaquim Barbosa
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I was literally the black sheep of the family, and there were definitely moments of discomfort while my grandmother was working through her racism.
Lisa Bonet
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Comedy can always be taken the wrong way. If I do a bit that is meant to diffuse racism or sexism, I'm not going to avoid it on the chance that a small portion of the audience might take it the wrong way.
Doug Stanhope
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I had to go to England to really learn about American racism in a way that corroborated my reality. That was critical.
Carl Hart
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If one lives in a country where racism is held valid and practiced in all ways of life eventually, no matter whether one is a racist or a victim, one comes to feel the absurdity of life....Racism generated from whites is first of all absurd. Racism creates absurdity among blacks as a defense mechanism.
Chester Himes
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Racism, anti-Semitism, homophobia, sexism, anything Nazi and a boatload of other things have no place in my life.
Sandra Bullock
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Given the knee-jerk patriotism of recent war movies, it's discouraging to see 'Windtalkers' evade pertinent facts that could have recast the doubled-edged issues of racism and loyalty and made them relevant to contemporary times.
Elvis Mitchell
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I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality... I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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You don't fight racism with racism, the best way to fight racism is with solidarity.
Bobby Seale
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It's important to acknowledge the danger when we provide an academic venue for racism. It's interesting to hear people push the, quote, 'free speech' narrative in this way. They deny the speech of the people who disagree.
DeRay Mckesson
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Hatred of producers of wealth still flourishes and has become, in fact, the racism of the intelligentsia.
George Gilder
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Slavery remained in the Deep South by other names - in prison programs with charges over nothing and eternal debt that threatened every African-American in the South right up through World War II. And that was after killing three-quarters of a million people, destroying cities, and creating hostility that exists to this day over the the Confederate flag and the racism it symbolizes, all brewing out of bitterness over a war that didn't have to happen.
David Swanson