Racism Quotes
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One of the founding tenets of racism: a society that will never allow white people to think that because they are white, they won't succeed.
Jenny Zhang
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There was so much racism when I was a kid, but it was also ignorant.
Art Malik
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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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The more afraid we are of the shadow of racism, the more conscious we might become of our own unsuspected biases.
Bret Stephens
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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 tend to think of racism as this interpersonal verbal or physical abuse, when in truth, that is only one way that racism manifests itself. The reality of contemporary racism is that it while it is ubiquitous, it is often invisible, subsequently making it more difficult to name and identify.
Clint Smith
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I went to an all white school where I dealt with racism.
Chaske Spencer
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War, hate, jealousy, racism - what are they but manifestations of fear?
F. Paul Wilson
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Our only hope today lies in our ability to recapture the revolutionary spirit and go out into a sometimes hostile world declaring eternal hostility to poverty, racism, and militarism... We are now faced with the fact, my friends, that tomorrow is today. We are confronted with the fierce urgency of now.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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At times we feel wounded, hurt, disappointed, disgusted, resentful, sick of it all. At other times we feel skeptical, outraged, robbed, beaten. We chafe, hate, overlook. Then again we feel like ignoring, defying and fighting for every right that belongs to us as human beings.
Nannie Helen Burroughs
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I grow dizzy when I recall that the number of manufactured tanks seems to have been more important to me than the vanished victims of racism.
Albert Speer
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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
