Racism Quotes - Page 27

• In Italy, especially in '70s and '80s, there was a lot of racism between north and south. And my mom immigrated from the south to the north, from Puglia, the heel of Italy. But what made me feel different was society, not my family.

  Riccardo Tisci

  Mom, Different, My Family

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• As for the European far left, it has very little to do with Marxism-Leninism these days. It has more to do with anti-Semitism, racism, anti-migration. They claim to be left-wing but they're espousing positions which would actually be classically brown.

  Toomas Hendrik Ilves

  Wings, Littles, Migration

  Source: www.thedailybeast.com

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• When the media would call and want to interview me, I thought it was 'cause they really wanted to find out what I thought about things. I thought it was because they really wanted to find out who I am. That's not what they wanted. They already in their minds knew who I was and they didn't like it, and they wanted face-to-face opportunities to expose my defects and my problems and my racism and bigotry and all this.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Opportunity, Who I Am, Media

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• The national conversation around white entitlement, around institutionalized racism, the Black Lives Matter movement, I think, came about in large part because of the widening and broadening of our understanding of inequality. That conversation was begun by Occupy.

  Cathy O'Neil

  Thinking, White, Understanding

  Source: www.salon.com

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• Growing inequality is a huge problem, and of course is intimately connected to xenophobia and racism.

  Adam Hochschild

  Xenophobia, Growing, Problem

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• We don't have a refugee crisis in America; we have a racism crisis here.

  Phyllis Bennis

  Refugee Crisis, America, Crisis

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• We had a Judeo-Christian ethic hanging around a couple thousand years that didn't help erase racism at all. So the notion of the little half-hour comedy changing things is something I think is silly.

  Norman Lear

  Christian, Couple, Silly

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Science could never get you to make alcohol and tobacco legal and marijuana illegal. Only racism can do that.

  Maia Szalavitz

  Marijuana, Alcohol, Illegal

  Source: sojo.net

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• There's more than just racism. There's ageism and sexism as well.

  Brandon Marshall

  Sexism, Wells, Ageism

  Source: www.ebony.com

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• I grew up in the Deep South, where sexism, racism, and homophobia were and still are alive and well. I have early, early memories of words and actions of this type being very painful.

  Pauley Perrette

  Memories, Alive, Action

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• A kind of racism still exists in the United States, and Islamophobia is a more convenient way to express that sentiment. There has also been an attempt to paint Muslims as enemies of the United States.

  Feisal Abdul Rauf

  Enemy, United States, Way

  "Q&A with Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf". Interview with Daniel Burke, www.washingtonpost.com. August 29, 2012.

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• Let me just say that to imagine racism does not exist is imagination. And to imagine that it does not create its own set of problems is true imagination. So let's not imagine that racism is gone, extinguished, because it's not. We are seeing this in the top levels of the political arena, and we are seeing it very, very plainly.

  Phylicia Rashad

  Imagination, Political, Doe

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• People would write me hate letters. How dare I try to represent Hispanics when I was so white? I tried to make them see it was racism.

  Cristina Saralegui

  Hate, Writing, White

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• Hippies started the ecology movement. They combated racism. They liberated sexual stereotypes, encouraged change, individual pride, and self-confidence. They questioned robot materialism. In four years they managed to stop the Vietnam War. They got marijuana decriminalized in fourteen states during the Carter Administration.

  Timothy Leary

  War, Hippie, Self Confidence

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• 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.

  David Levering Lewis

  Determination, Careers, Rights

  "'He Would Not Bleach His Negro Soul': W.E.B. Du Bois" by Kris Broughton, bigthink.com. 2017.

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• I accepted that a new kind of hate had emerged, silent and disciplined, a racism tempered by loyalty cards and PIN numbers. Shopping was now the model for all human behaviour, drained of emotion and anger.

  J. G. Ballard

  Loyalty, Hate, Shopping

  J. G. Ballard (2006). “Kingdom Come”, HarperCollins UK

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• The truth is the President of the United States used the same device that Slobodan Milosevic used in Serbia. When you appeal to homophobia, when you appeal to sexism, when you appeal to racism, that is extraordinarily damaging to the country.

  Howard Dean

  Country, President, United States

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• Hip-hop has done more damage to black and brown people than racism in the last 10 years.

  Geraldo Rivera

  Years, People, Hip Hop

  "Journalist Geraldo Rivera". "The Tavis Smiley show", www.pbs.org. February 23, 2015.

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• It's hard to say when or if we will actually arrive at that place called 'post-racial', or, better yet, post-racism.

  Tim Wise

  Posts, Hard, Ifs

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• I went to an all white school where I dealt with racism.

  Chaske Spencer

  School, White

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• The problem is, is the White House and this administration have created a war against police officers in this country, with their allegations and false assertions that there's widespread and pervasive racism in the United States of America that lives in the heart and minds of the men and women in blue. This is a false narrative. It is dangerous. It is reckless. It has resulted in the loss of lives. They are not being held accountable.

  Kimberly Guilfoyle

  Country, War, Heart

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• The arrogance of race prejudice is an arrogance which defies what is scientifically known of human races.

  Ruth Benedict

  Race, Arrogance, Prejudice

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• It is with great satisfaction that I learned of the adoption by consensus of the Durban Declaration against racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and the intolerance associated with it

  Lionel Jospin

  Xenophobia, Adoption, Satisfaction

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• If you think the country is a bastion only of nasty tendencies and racism and oppression, that is anti-American.

  Rich Lowry

  Country, Thinking, Nasty

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• I believe the NME have deliberately tried to characterise me as a racist in a recent interview in order to boost their circulation. I abhor racism and cruelty of any kind and will not let this pass.

  Steven Morrissey

  Believe, Order, Interviews

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