Racism Quotes
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Abortion and racism are both symptoms of a fundamental human error. The error is thinking that when someone stands in the way of our wants, we can justify getting that person out of our lives. Abortion and racism stem from the same poisonous root, selfishness.
Alveda King
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There are not grades of racism. There's racism.
Dede Gardner
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Why don't we hear more about and from Asians when it comes to race in America? Are Asians the new Invisible Man - there but not there? In some ways, yeah. Blacks and whites are always carping about the metrics of racism. And any conversation about immigration reform is immediately flipped into a referendum on Hispanics.
John Ridley
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Racism is America's greatest disease, racism is a disease of the white man.
Albert Einstein
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In England, I've never really had a problem with racism.
Didier Drogba
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Racism springs from the lie that certain human beings are less than fully human. It's a self-centered falsehood that corrupts our minds into believing we are right to treat others as we would not want to be treated.
Alveda King
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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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Racism must be fought - there are no two ways about it.
Marine Le Pen
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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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Racism is a visual pathology.
Adrian Piper
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The minute you understand racism, you're responsible for being racist. It's like eating from the tree of knowledge.
Lynda Barry
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Bosnia is a complicated country: three religions, three nations and those 'others'. Nationalism is strong in all three nations; in two of them there are a lot of racism, chauvinism, separatism; and now we are supposed to make a state out of that.
Alija Izetbegovic
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Don't tell me I have latent sexism or racism that I need to confront. I don't believe that. I think we are so burned by the current situation that we want somebody that it isn't possible to have. We want someone who definitely looks like the messiah.
Sara Paretsky
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Part of the sin of Pride is a subtle but deep racism.
K. P. Yohannan
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As an immigrant, I am constantly surprised by how much I hear racism talked about and how little I actually see it. (Even fewer are the incidents in which I have experienced it directly.)
Dinesh D'Souza
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The advantage of Fashion is that there is no racism
Karl Lagerfeld
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The evils of capitalism are as real as the evils of militarism and evils of racism.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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I think that the roots of racism have always been economic, and I think people are desperate and scared. And when you're desperate and scared you scapegoat people. It exacerbates latent tendencies toward - well, toward racism or homophobia or anti-Semitism.
Henry Louis Gates
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We now have a situation where a type of reverse racism is applied to mainstream Australians by those who promote political correctness and those who control the various taxpayer funded 'industries' that flourish in our society servicing Aboriginals, multiculturalists and a host of other minority groups.
Pauline Hanson
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I've written 18 books, mostly dealing with issues of social justice, ending racism, feminism, and cultural criticism.
bell hooks
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You face racism in small and large ways.
Jayson Blair
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We call for the end of bigotry as we know it. The end of racism as we know it. The end of child abuse in the family as we know it. The end of sexism as we know it. The end of homophobia as we know it. We stand for freedom as we have yet to know it. And we will not be denied.
Urvashi Vaid
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Weakness is what brings ignorance, cheapness, racism, homophobia, desperation, cruelty, brutality, all these things that will keep a society chained to the ground, one foot nailed to the floor.
Henry Rollins Black Flag
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Racism tears down your insides so that no matter what you achieve, you're not quite up to snuff.
Alvin Ailey