Anna Quindlen Quotes About Racism

Quotes about: Racism

• Our love of lockstep is our greatest curse, the source of all that bedevils us. It is the source of homophobia, xenophobia, racism, sexism, terrorism, bigotry of every variety and hue, because it tells us there is one right way to do things, to look, to behave, to feel, when the only right way is to feel your heart hammering inside you and to listen to what its timpani is saying.

  Anna Quindlen

  Xenophobia, Heart, Racism

  Anna Quindlen (2004). “Loud and Clear”, p.151, Random House

• The pursuit of otherness, the sense that we are somehow different than our brothers and sisters, no matter where we find them, allows for all the other great evils: racism, sexism, homophobia, violence against gay people and against women.

  Anna Quindlen

  Brother, Gay, Racism

• I sometimes think that courage is the thing that you need more than any other thing. It's fear that cripples us. It's fear that accounts for racism, it's fear that accounts for sexism, for xenophobia.

  Anna Quindlen

  Xenophobia, Thinking, Racism

  Source: www.pbs.org

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