Racism Quotes - Page 6

• We must treat the disease of racism. This means we must understand the disease.

  Sargent Shriver

  Mean, Racist, Disease

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• When I was younger, living in an all-black neighborhood the other kids thought I was better than them because of my light skin and straight hair. Then we moved to an all-white neighborhood and that was a culture shock ... I'd been used to being around all black kids.

  Halle Berry

  Kids, White, Light

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• The U. S. is becoming more hostile to Black people and other people of color. Racism is running rampant and xenophobia is on the rise

  Assata Shakur

  Running, Xenophobia, Color

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• I am a 20th century escaped slave. Because of government persecution, I was left with no other choice than to flee from the political repression, racism and violence that dominate the U.S. government’s policy towards people of color.

  Assata Shakur

  Government, Color, People

  "Forced Passages: Imprisoned Radical Intellectuals And the U.S. Prison Regime". Book by Dylan Rodríguez, 2006.

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• Racism is a disease in society. We're all equal. I don't care what their colour is, or religion. Just as long as they're human beings they're my buddies.

  Mandawuy Yunupingu

  Long, Care, Disease

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• We must never remain silent in the face of bigotry. We must condemn those who seek to divide us. In all quarters and at all times, we must teach tolerance and denounce racism, anti-Semitism and all ethnic or religious bigotry wherever they exist as unacceptable evils. We have no place for haters in America -- none, whatsoever.

  Ronald Reagan

  Hater, Religious, America

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• Racism is a worldwide problem.

  Patterson Hood

  Problem

  "How Drive-By Truckers' American Band Reclaimed Rock For the Anti-Trump South". Interview with Tyler Coates, www.esquire.com. September 29, 2016.

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• I'M ANGRY because the stories of injustice that have been passed down for generations seem to be continuing before our very eyes.

  Benjamin Watson

  Eye, Generations, Stories

  Benjamin Watson (2015). “Under Our Skin: Getting Real about Race. Getting Free from the Fears and Frustrations that Divide Us.”, p.14, NavPress

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• Preconceived notions are the locks on the door to wisdom.

  Mary Browne

  Motivational, Wise, Wisdom

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• We are owned by propagandists against the Arabs. There's no question about that. Congress, the White House, and Hollywood, Wall Street, are owned by the Zionists. No question in my opinion. They put their money where their mouth is...We're being pushed into a wrong direction in every way.

  Helen Thomas

  Wall, White, House

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• If a white man falls off a chair drunk, it's just a drunk.
  If a Negro does, it's the whole damn Negro race.

  Bill Cosby

  Fall, Men, Race

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• Any concept of one person being superior to another can lead to racism.

  Walter Lang

  Racist, Persons, Superiors

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• The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line.

  W. E. B. Du Bois

  Color, Lines, Social Justice

  The Souls of Black Folk ch. 2 (1903)

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• Richard exhaled. It was like somebody sprinkling pepper on his wound: Thousands of Biafrans were dead, and this man wanted to know if there was anything new about one dead white man. Richard would write about this, the rule of Western journalism: One hundred dead black people equal to one dead white person.

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

  Writing, Men, White Man

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• The worst mistake I made was that stupid, suburban prejudice of anti-Semitism.

  Ezra Pound

  Mistake, Stupid, Race

  1968 Remark to Allen Ginsberg, 7 Jun. Quoted in H Carpenter A Serious Character (1988), pt.5.

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• George W. Bush, Ronald Reagan, Donald Trump. Take your pick. They are hated; they are not opposed, and I wish an even bigger percentage of the American people would figure this out. The American people are running around thinking that all the hate and the racism and all these other isms are located on the Republican Party side.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Running, Hate, Party

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Peace does not fare well where poverty and deprivation reign. It does not flourish where there is ignorance and a lack of education and information.

  Frederik Willem de Klerk

  Education, Ignorance, Doe

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• What is it you most dislike? Stupidity, especially in its nastiest forms of racism and superstition.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Atheist, Stupid, Superstitions

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• If whites would vote their economic interests, not their racial fears, we the people who have the most need for change have the power to bring about that change nonviolently.

  Jesse Jackson

  People, Needs, Vote

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• I hate racial discrimination most intensely and all its manifestations. I have fought all my life; I fight now, and will do so until the end of my days. Even although I now happen to be tried by one, whose opinion I hold in high esteem, I detest most violently the set-up that surrounds me here. It makes me feel that I am a Black man in a White man's court. This should not be I should feel perfectly at ease and at home with the assurance that I am being tried by a fellow South African, who does not regard me as an inferior, entitled to a special type of justice.

  Nelson Mandela

  Hate, Home, Fighting

  Nelson Mandela (1963*). “We Accuse: The Trial of Nelson Mandela”

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• We have two evils to fight, capitalism and racism. We must destroy both racism and capitalism.

  Huey Newton

  Fighting, Two, Evil

  Huey P. Newton, Toni Morrison, Elaine Brown (2009). “To die for the people: the writings of Huey P. Newton”, City Lights Publishers

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• Racism is an ism to which everyone in the world today is exposed; for or against, we must take sides. And the history of the future will differ according to the decision which we make.

  Ruth Benedict

  History, Decision, Racist

  Ruth Benedict (1945). “Race: Science and Politics”, Viking Adult

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• Racism, specifically, is the state-sanctioned or extralegal production and exploitation of group-differentiated vulnerability to premature death.

  Ruth Wilson

  Groups, States, Premature Death

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• Joblessness is a weapon of mass destruction. Poverty is a weapon of mass destruction. Hunger is a weapon of mass destruction. Poor health care is a weapon of mass destruction. Poor education is a weapon of mass destruction. Discrimination is a weapon of mass destruction. Let us abolish such weapons of mass destruction here at home.

  Dennis Kucinich

  Work, Home, Poor Education

  "A Prayer for America". Book by Dennis Kucinich, 2003.

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• Sexual, racial, gender violence and other forms of discrimination and violence in a culture cannot be eliminated without changing culture.

  Charlotte Bunch

  Domestic Violence, Against Violence, Culture

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