Racism Quotes - Page 16

• I warn young people that I interact with about this - you get into unrealistic expectations where you think that, "Oh, we're gonna eliminate racism like that. After Obama's elected how could there be any racism?".

  Barack Obama

  Thinking, People, Expectations

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• I look at racism as one of the social demons. And, in its worst, it's violent and it's a systemic commitment to oppression.

  Jordan Peele

  Commitment, Looks, Oppression

  "‘Get Out’ dials up the scary side of race in America". "PBS NewsHour" with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. March 6, 2017.

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• Racism is a global problem and it is as damaging to Whites as it is to non-Whites. Everyone must fight against it.

  Roger Ross Williams

  Fighting, Problem

  Source: www.theskanner.com

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• There was no racism; there was no problem [in Mecca].

  Malcolm X

  Mecca, Problem, No Problem

  Source: nyx.uky.edu

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• When you’re young, your world is pretty limited. My parents, my family, my church dominated my world. And because Birmingham was so segregated, I didn’t really have to encounter the slings and arrows of racism on a daily basis. Obviously, from time to time I did, like when my parents took me to see Santa Claus and he wasn’t letting black children sit on his knee. But my parents tried to insulate me as much as they could.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Children, Parent, Black

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Donald Trump is american neo-fascist. The word "neo" meaning "new", has a lot to do with it, a new kind of fascist in our culture, dealing with an authoritarian demagogic point of view, nativist, anti-immigrant, racism, bigotry that he appeals to.

  Carl Bernstein

  Culture, Kind, Point Of View

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• A lot of people felt defeated and hopeless by Trump's election. But I feel his election should energize people to resist apathy, ignorance, sexism, xenophobia, and racism.

  Shepard Fairey

  Ignorance, People, Apathy

  Source: www.thedailybeast.com

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• One of the big mistakes they made in Europe is that the circumstances in which you most frequently read or hear the word "race" or "racism" in Europe applies to Muslims. Which is not a race. It is a religion. You can convert to this. You cannot convert your race. I could become a Muslim. I could not become a Chinese person or a black person. So they constantly use that in Europe.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Mistake, Race, Europe

  Interview with Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. June 17, 2011.

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• Many voted in 2008 with the desire to see racism and racists humiliated by having a qualified black man elected president.

  Douglas Wilder

  Men, Black, Desire

  "The 'Bradley effect' and Obama" by L.Douglas Wilder, www.politico.com. May 14, 2012.

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• I still think people do have racial hang-ups, but I think one of the reasons I can joke about it is people are shedding those racial hatreds.

  Dave Chappelle

  Thinking, People, Hatred

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

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• If a man like Malcolm X could change and repudiate racism, if I myself and other former Muslims can change, if young whites can change, then there is hope for America.

  Eldridge Cleaver

  Change, Men, America

  ELDRIDGE CLEAVER (1968). “SOUL ON ICE”

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• I think there are universal principles that we should want to understand, but that are not necessarily good for us. We could recognise universal propensities which current cultures can't fully eradicate, which we would want to eradicate if we could. Let's say, a tendency for tribal violence. Or racism.

  Sam Harris

  Thinking, Principles, Culture

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• I felt pretty good growing up. I didnt feel a lot of prejudice or racism. But I do remember, if there was going to be a movie or a television show with Asian characters, I would go out of my way to avoid them, because they portrayed all Asians as either ridiculously good or ridiculously bad; you know, the whole Charlie Chan-Fu Manchu thing.

  David Henry Hwang

  Growing Up, Character, Asian

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• Whenever someone accuses someone of being a racist - which is rare, you have to admit, considering how much racism there is - there is an incredible outrage. I realized that we live in an environment that it seems to be worse to call someone a racist than to be one.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Racist, Environment, Incredibles

  Interview with Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. June 17, 2011.

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• Blacks are supposed to rejoice whenever our way of life becomes more mainstream. We seldom do. For we see in it a sanctioning that can only be granted by white society. In other words: If you're white, it's all right. If you're black, step back.

  Lena Williams

  White, Black, Way

  Lena Williams (2002). “It's the Little Things: Everyday Interactions that Anger, Annoy, and Divide the Races”, p.184, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Capitalism, racism and inhuman technocracy quietly develop in their own way. The causes of misery are no longer to be found in the inner attitudes of men, but have long been institutionalized.

  Jürgen Moltmann

  Attitude, Men, Long

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• Screaming racism is the last refuge of leftist intellectuals who've completely lost their mojo.

  Neal Boortz

  Mojo, Lasts, Lost

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• When I wrote 'The Giver,' it contained no so-called 'bad words.' It was set, after all, in a mythical, futuristic, and Utopian society. Not only was there no poverty, divorce, racism, sexism, pollution, or violence in the world of 'The Giver'; there was also careful attention paid to language: to its fluency, precision, and power.

  Lois Lowry

  Divorce, Attention, World

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• Comedy can always be taken the wrong way. If I do a bit that is meant to diffuse racism or sexism, Im not going to avoid it on the chance that a small portion of the audience might take it the wrong way.

  Doug Stanhope

  Taken, Might, Way

  "Doug Stanhope on alcohol, politics and killing comedy Bootleggers's families". Interview with Joel Warner and Peter McGraw, www.wired.com. June 11, 2006.

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• Battling racism and battling heterosexism and battling apartheid share the same urgency inside me as battling cancer.

  Audre Lorde

  Cancer, Justice, Diversity

  Audre Lorde (2017). “A Burst of Light: and Other Essays”, p.115, Courier Dover Publications

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• My beliefs are now one hundred percent against racism and segregation in any form and I also believe that we don't judge a person by the color of his skin but rather by his deeds.

  Malcolm X

  Believe, Color, Justice

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• 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, People

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• We call for the end of bigotry as we know it. The end of racism as we know it. The end of child abuse in the family as we know it. The end of sexism as we know it. The end of homophobia as we know it. We stand for freedom as we have yet to know it. And we will not be denied.

  Urvashi Vaid

  Children, Justice, Diversity

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• It will do us little good to wire the world if we short circut our souls. There is no delete button for racism, poverty, or sectarian violence. No key stroke can ever clean the air, save a river, preserve a forest. This transformational new technology must be an extension of our hearts as well as of our mind.

  Tom Brokaw

  Heart, Acceptance, Technology

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• When I was a kid growing up in New York, I was pretty unaware of racism. I think when we're young - before we lose our innocence - we're sort of unaware of the more flawed qualities of each other.

  Dave Matthews

  New York, Growing Up, Kids

  Source: www.cnn.com

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