Racism Quotes - Page 12

• Indians in America are yet to be considered human beings, even though the Pope issued a papal bull in 1898 that declared us to be human beings. But to show you the institutional racism, the sports teams are still using the Indians as mascots.

  Russell Means

  Sports, Team, America

  Source: progressive.org

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• There is a bunch of racism in America, and sadly, most of it's on the left side of the aisle.

  Rush Limbaugh

  America, Sides, Bunch

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Rescind the appointment of [Steve] Bannon. We will not be involved in the expansion of bigotry, of racism, sexism, homophobia.

  Bernie Sanders

  Expansion, Sexism, Appointments

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• In America, we have struggled too much, too long as a country trying to overcome racism and sexism and homophobia. We cannot go back to a more discriminatory society.

  Bernie Sanders

  Country, America, Long

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I don't wanna believe that racism exists, but the more I wish it away, the more I realize it's in our system.

  will.i.am

  Believe, Wish, Realizing

  Source: thesource.com

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• In America right now, the people who talk about race the most are people of color - and if we are going to move the needle forward, it's WHITE people who need to acknowledge their role in racism.

  Jodi Picoult

  Moving, White, America

  Source: nudge-book.com

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• I think that in his 39 short years of life, Malcolm X came to symbolize Black urban America, its culture, its politics, its militancy, its outrage against structural racism and at the end of his life, a broad internationalist vision of emancipatory power far better than any other single individual that he shared with DuBois and Paul Robeson, a pan-Africanist internationalist perspective.

  Manning Marable

  Thinking, America, Years

  Source: historynewsnetwork.org

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• That's unfortunately common - to blame immigrants, to blame the African-Americans who are being helped by federal programs, to blame anyone available, to direct attention away from the roots of the distress which you're suffering. This combines with xenophobia, white supremacy, racism, misogyny, and other quite unpleasant phenomena which are far from being eradicated. All of this makes for a pretty dangerous brew. But economic issues are right in the center of it. And you can see this in the fact that so many former Obama voters now voted for Trump, or just didn't bother voting.

  Noam Chomsky

  Xenophobia, Roots, White

  Source: www.brooklynrail.org

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• Many of them who belong to these countries that were former colonial powers have racist attitudes, but their racist attitude is never displayed to the degree that the America's attitude of racism is displayed. Never.

  Malcolm X

  Country, Attitude, America

  Interview with Robert Penn Warren, whospeaks.library.vanderbilt.edu. June 2, 1964.

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• Writing about racism requires a directness that writing a love story does not.

  Vivek Shraya

  Writing, Doe, Stories

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I am not sure that I know enough about the pre-history of 9/11 to agree or disagree. But I did think at the time that the [George W.] Bush administration took a number of cues from the Israeli government, not only by drawing on and intensifying anti-Arab racism, but by insisting that the attack on US government and financial buildings was an attack on "democracy" and by invoking "security at all costs" to wage war without a clear focus (why the Taliban?), and by suspending both constitutional rights and the regular protocol for congressional approval for declaring war.

  Judith Butler

  War, Thinking, Rights

  Interview with Cihan Aksan and Jon Bailes, www.counterpunch.org. October 11, 2013.

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• When people are not sure about their future, when their economies are suffering, when their personal fortunes are flagging, we have often in this country turned to nativism and xenophobia and racism and anti-immigrant sensibilities and passions to express our sense of outrage at what we can't control - and to forge a kind of fitful solidarity that turns out to be rather insular - we look inward and not outward.

  Michael Eric Dyson

  Country, Xenophobia, Passion

  "Michael Eric Dyson Wants White People to Step Up and Actually Do Something About Racism". Interview With Will Greenberg, www.motherjones.com. January 18, 2017.

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• The world and man are identical. This is why racism is the most stupid thing in the world.

  Paul Virilio

  Stupid, Men, World

  Source: ctheory.net

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• Mass incarceration is a policy that's kind of built up over the last four decades and it's destroyed families and communities, and something we need to change. And it's fallen disproportionally on black and brown communities, especially black communities, and it's kind of a manifestation of structural racism.

  John Legend

  Community, Black, Needs

  Source: www.washingtontimes.com

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• More people are aware of the consequences of hatred. People are aware. Therefore more people are engaged in fighting ... racism and so forth.

  Elie Wiesel

  Fighting, People, Hatred

  Source: dailynorthwestern.com

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• This unprecedented racism, bigotry and proto-fascist agenda that Donald Trump is trying to shove down America's throat has unleashed the resistance that will dethrone him.

  Tom Morello

  America, Trying, Agendas

  Source: www.billboard.com

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• In the story ["The Pyramid and the Ass"] there's this war against the so-called Buddhist Terrorists. As we find out, they're not really terrorists at all, just good folks trying to liberate people from technology and fight against an American government/corporation trying to coopt our souls. The inherent racism and Buddhist-phobia in the story plays into the present demonizing of Islam - and of our loss of knowledge about the great, spiritual history of the Sufis, for example, or the cultural heritage from the middle east.

  Alexander Weinstein

  Spiritual, Buddhist, War

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• I don't feel that I've been hampered by [ racism or discrimination], and the reason why is that we reach out to people on the basis of where everyone meets, and try to build common cause on that basis. Because of that, I think we've cut through some of the issues that normally divide people.

  Keith Ellison

  Cutting, Thinking, Issues

  Source: harvardpolitics.com

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• Even if we're facing bigotry or racism, we can still be successful.

  Ibtihaj Muhammad

  Successful, Stills, Ifs

  Source: www.popsugar.com

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• Slavery remained in the Deep South by other names - in prison programs with charges over nothing and eternal debt that threatened every African-American in the South right up through World War II. And that was after killing three-quarters of a million people, destroying cities, and creating hostility that exists to this day over the the Confederate flag and the racism it symbolizes, all brewing out of bitterness over a war that didn't have to happen.

  David Swanson

  War, Cities, Names

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• Racism is within each and every one of us.

  Jordan Peele

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I just think racism is within each and every one of us. It's everyone's responsibility to figure out how they deal with this kind of obsolete instinct.

  Jordan Peele

  Responsibility, Thinking, Kind

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• If a Republican came along and suggested free abortions for people on Medicaid, the first person to stand up would be Jesse Jackson and start shouting, "Racism!" And then Al Sharpton wouldn't be as far behind, and they would call it an attempt to eliminate people of color by the dastardly, rascally Republicans. But yet Hillary Clinton is proposing it and is being feted, praised to the heavens for such a compassionate plan. The Democrats are wiping out their own people. That's why they need open borders for replacements to be brought in ASAP.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Color, People, Abortion

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Under Trump, the US will give its blessing to Israeli imperialism and racism.

  Lawrence Davidson

  Blessing, Giving, Imperialism

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• People can tell if you don't like 'em. African Americans can tell we're not welcome in the Republican Party no matter how many times they say we are. All the signals that it's a party that tolerates anti-black racism is very clear.

  Van Jones

  Party, People, African American

  Source: pen.org

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