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  • Racism does not diminish with brains, it's a disease, a sickness, it may incubate in ignorance but it doesn't necessarily disappear with the gaining of wisdom!

  • The most persistent of all attractive illusions in our country may be that racism can be ended by one single blow.

    Country   Blow   Racism  
  • Racism is ridiculous no matter where it's coming from.

  • Today the governments of Latin America should be ashamed of not havingexterminated the indigenous, at the end of the twentieth century, because weexist at the end of this century. We are not myths of the past, ruins in thejungle, or zoos. We are people and we want to be respected, not to be victims ofintolerance and racism.

    Zoos   Latin   Past  
  • Robinson Crusoe, the first capitalist hero, is a self-made man who accepts objective reality and then fashions it to his needs through the work ethic, common sense, resilience, technology, and, if need be, racism and imperialism.

  • Racism doesn't know color, death doesn't know age, and pain doesn't know might.

    Pain   Color   Racism  
    Jacqueline Woodson (2002). “Maizon at Blue Hill”, p.47, Penguin
  • We, who think like animals living in small groups, must structure a global world. We believe in universal human rights and believe racism and war are wrong. On the other hand, it is our nature to be cooperative and loving almost exclusively with the members of the group to which we feel we belong.

    War   Believe   Animal  
  • I would hope that racism is something that just does not work in this day and age, but I know otherwise.

    Racism   Age   Doe  
    Source: alanpaul.net
  • There are, however, those who have called the book [The Kite Runner] divisive and objected to some of the issues raised in the book, namely racism, discrimination, ethnic inequality etc.

    Book   Issues   Racism  
  • We live surrounded by white images, and white in this world is synonymous with the good, light, beauty, success, so that, despite ourselves sometimes, we run after that whiteness and deny our darkness, which has been made into the symbol of all that is evil and inferior.

    Paule Marshall (1983). “Reena and Other Stories”, p.79, Feminist Press at CUNY
  • I hope that my new status will be an example of Israeli-Palestinian co-existence, I believe that the destinies of the Israeli people and the Palestinian people are inextricably linked.

    "The artist as leader" by Mark Braund, www.theguardian.com. February 17, 2008.
  • I was born in the late '70s and grew up in the deep South, and I was very much still of an era where racism was a casual part of white people's public and private lives, though it had been pushed more into its own little echo chamber by then. As a five year old, I saw a fully costumed Klan circle, complete with burning cross, on a town square in rural Alabama at high noon.

    Echoes   Squares   Years  
    Source: www.teachingbooks.net
  • Our goal is to have a country that's not divided by race.

    Country   Race   Racism  
  • The fact is, is that Donald Trump knows that as he rifles money from the working and middle classes up to the super rich, he has to sow division among working people, because if working people and middle-class people really take a look at his economic policy, they will come together, and they will stop it. So, what he has to do is to promote racism - hate the Muslims, hate the Latinos, hate the blacks, you know, have male - men and women at each other's throats, you know, make sure we repress the trans people.

    Hate   Men   Racism  
    Source: www.truth-out.org
  • Racism is not an excuse to not do the best you can.

  • Yes, racism looks like hate, but hate is just one manifestation. Privilege is another. Access is another. Ignorance is another. Apathy is another, and so on.

  • I guess racism is sort of like a form of discrimination but it's just that you classify people in different colours and different races. I think everyone is born with an inherent, the inherence to discriminate.

    Thinking   Race   Racism  
    Source: www.sbs.com.au
  • The way we have to measure progress is not, "Is there ever going to be an incident of racism in the country?" It's, "How does the majority of our country respond?"

    Source: www.huffingtonpost.com
  • We have to stop making excuses. One of the things that I'm careful to show is the horrendous effects of institutional and structural racism, but in the end, you can't wait for white man or a Black man to come riding in on a white horse to save you. We have to save ourselves, and that's the lesson of "The African Americans."

    Horse   Men   White Man  
    "Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. October 21, 2013.
  • We've got to address the systemic racism in our criminal justice system.

    "Presidential debate: Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump's first clash - full transcript". www.independent.co.uk. September 27, 2016.
  • In America, black is a country.

    Amiri Baraka (2009). “Home: Social Essays”, Akashic Books
  • Racism is not nearly as important as poverty. That's the same around the world. What look like ethnic problems are really economic issues. If you look closely at all these conflicts around the world, they come down to poverty and economics and resources. The more poverty, the worse the war.

    War   Issues   Racism  
    Interview with Joshuah Bearman, believermag.com. August 1, 2006.
  • It is up to us to take care of this planet, it is our only home. To betray nature is to betray us. To save nature is to save us. Because whatever you're fighting for, racism or poverty. Feminism, gay rights or any type of equality. It won't matter in the least. Because if we don't all work together to save the environment, we will be equally extinct.

    Home   Heart   Gay  
    "Dear future generations: Sorry". Prince Ea's video address to the people about mitigating climate change on Earth Day, www.globalcitizen.org. April 22, 2015.
  • I remember after I dated this white man, nobody said anything but there was a couple of men in my family that joked after that. 'Oh yeah, we had a party when y'all broke up. Hee hee hee.' And, you know, they laughed, and it was like light and a joke. But, you know, that's real. That was real and they let me know. And, it's almost acceptable within our culture to be prejudiced toward whites because of our history. This country is loaded with racism .

    Country   Couple   Real  
    "Sanaa Lathan tries 'Something New'". The Associated Press Interview, www.today.com. August 4, 2010.
  • The best cure for racism is to have somebody shoot at you. Man, it does not matter then what color the arse is that comes to save yours-black or white, you're ready to give it a big fat kiss.

    Kissing   Men   Color  
  • Tony Blair a couple years ago was going around apologizing for everything. He apologized for the Irish potato famine. The Canadian government apologized for how it treated Indian school children.When is the Democratic Party going to apologize for being the biggest slave-holding-supporting institution on the planet and sticking with racism for the century after the abolition of slavery?

    Couple   Children   Party  
    Source: www.foxnews.com
  • In the land of my birth I cannot vote, whereas a young person of eighteen can vote. And why? Because he or she possesses that wonderful biological attribute - a white skin.

    Land   Umpires   White  
    Guardian Weekly, London, April 8, 1984.
  • As far Chicago, our city was designed with racism in mind, with neighborhoods segregated by expressways and train tracks. Even suburbs, like Highland Park, have long histories of barring Jewish and black people. That history that has always existed has come out of the shadows because of the social and political climate.

    Long   Racism   People  
    Source: chicagoist.com
  • In the course of his long, turbulent career, W. E. B. Du Bois attempted virtually every possible solution to the problem of twentieth-century racism...scholarship, propaganda, integration, national self-determination, human rights, cultural and economic separatism, politics, international communism, expatriation, third world solidarity.

    "'He Would Not Bleach His Negro Soul': W.E.B. Du Bois" by Kris Broughton, bigthink.com. 2017.
  • Water from the white fountain didn't taste any better than from the black fountain.

    Race   White   Racism  
    "B.B. King: What I've Learned". Interview with Mike Sager, www.esquire.com. 2005.
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