Racism Quotes - Page 37

• Without centuries of Christian antisemitism, Hitlers passionate hatred would never have been so fervently echoed.

  Robert Runcie

  Christian, Glowing, Hatred

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• Today the governments of Latin America should be ashamed of not havingexterminated the indigenous, at the end of the twentieth century, because weexist at the end of this century. We are not myths of the past, ruins in thejungle, or zoos. We are people and we want to be respected, not to be victims ofintolerance and racism.

  Rigoberta Menchu

  Zoos, Latin, Past

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• I picked up a camera because it was my choice of weapons against what I hated most about the universe: racism, intolerance, poverty. I could have just as easily picked up a knife or a gun, like many of my childhood friends did... most of whom were murdered or put in prison... but I chose not to go that way. I felt that I could somehow subdue these evils by doing something beautiful that people recognize me by, and thus make a whole different life for myself, which has proved to be so.

  Gordon Parks

  Beautiful, Gun, Knives

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• I saw that the camera could be a weapon against poverty, against racism, against all sorts of social wrongs. I knew at that point I had to have a camera.

  Gordon Parks

  African American, Cameras, Cinema

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• If political correctness has achieved one thing, it’s that it has made the Conservative party cloak their inherent racism behind more creative language

  Stewart Lee

  Party, Creative, Political

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• Racism is kinda old. For real.

  Matt Kemp

  Real

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• Yes, racism looks like hate, but hate is just one manifestation. Privilege is another. Access is another. Ignorance is another. Apathy is another, and so on.

  Scott Woods

  Hate, Ignorance, White Privilege

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• Almost all of my early art dealt with the fallout from middle-class taboos, the messy, the ambivalent emotions couples felt, the inherent racism, the sexual tensions and the unhappiness roiling below the surface of our prim suburban lives. Meanwhile I was a suburban bad boy - cynical, sarcastic, contemptuous of all authority.

  Eric Fischl

  Sarcastic, Art, Couple

  "Bad Boy: My Life On and Off the Canvas". Book by Eric Fischl and Michael Stone, www.huffingtonpost.com. 2012.

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• I will not accept racism at all. It's unacceptable. If someone throws a banana at me in the street, I will go to jail, because I will kill them.

  Mario Balotelli

  Jail, Bananas, Accepting

  " Euro 2012: Mario Balotelli threatens to 'kill' banana-throwing fans" by Marcus Christenson, www.theguardian.com. May 29, 2012.

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• Ageism is as odious as racism and sexism.

  Claude Pepper

  Age, Racist, Aging

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• I think really the whole problem with racism and its continuing legacy in this country is that we simply love it. Who would we be without the 'struggle?'

  Kara Walker

  Country, Struggle, Thinking

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• You expect to cop a bit wherever you go. In the past there hasn't been any racism or any racist comments that I've seen. I'm expecting a tough time, as we get everywhere we go, but racism hasn't been a problem before.

  Glenn McGrath

  Past, Tough Times, Racist

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• We dont know anything about racism. Weve never experienced it. If words can make a difference in your life for seven minutes, how would it affect you if you heard this every day of your life?

  Jane Elliott

  Differences, Making A Difference, Racist

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• Racism is like high blood pressure—the person who has it doesn’t know he has it until he drops over with a God damned stroke. There are no symptoms of racism. The victim of racism is in a much better position to tell you whether or not you’re a racist than you are.

  Coleman Young

  Blood, Racist, Pressure

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• We do not believe in the notion of God's chosen people. We laugh at this people's fancies and weep over its misdeeds. To act as God's chosen people is not only stupid and arrogant, but a crime against humanity. We call it racism.

  Jostein Gaarder

  Stupid, Believe, People

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• Racism is a cancer that America does not want to cure.

  Willie D

  Cancer, America, Doe

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• I'm a naturalized Italian, but I'm from Ghana. I was abandoned by my parents and adopted by two angels. I suffer with racism everyday. I'm the first black to wear the jersey of Italy. I'm not angry, but my life experiencies make me act differently from other people. Then, try to learn more before you criticize me.

  Mario Balotelli

  Angel, Italian, Ghana

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• Racism is the lowest, most crudely primitive form of collectivism.

  Ayn Rand

  Form, Primitive, Collectivism

  Ayn Rand (1999). “The Return of the Primitive: The Anti-Industrial Revolution”, p.158, Penguin

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• The denial of racism is a form of racism itself.

  Tim Wise

  Denial, Form

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• Telling me that I’m obsessed with talking about racism in America is like telling me I’m obsessed with swimming when I’m drowning.

  Hari Kondabolu

  Swimming, America, Talking

  "Hari Kondabolu on Why You Can't Be 'Obsessed With Race' in America" by Jamilah King, www.colorlines.com. February 6, 2014.

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• Why is it so difficult for many white folks to understand that racism is oppressive not because white folks have prejudicial feelings about blacks (they could have such feelings and leave us alone) but because it is a system that promotes domination and subjugation?

  Bell Hooks

  White, Feelings, Subjugation

  bell hooks (2014). “Black Looks: Race and Representation”, p.15, Routledge

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• Each and every one of us is born with a clean heart. Our babies know nothing about hate or racism. But soon they begin to learn – and only from us. We keep racism alive. We pass it on to our children. We owe it to our children to help them keep their clean start.

  Ruby Bridges

  Baby, Children, Hate

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• My message is really that racism has no place in the hearts and minds of our children.

  Ruby Bridges

  Children, Heart, Bridges

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• Racism is a grown-up disease and we must stop using our children to spread it.

  Ruby Bridges

  Children, Disease, Spread

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• White privilege is the other side of racism. Unless we name it, we are in danger of wallowing in guilt or moral outrage with no idea of how to move beyond them. It is often easier to deplore racism and its effects than to take responsibility for the privileges some of us receive as a result of it... Once we understand how white privilege operates, we can begin to take steps to dismantle it on both a personal and institutional level.

  Paula Rothenberg

  Moving, Responsibility, Names

  "White Privilege: Essential Readings on the Other Side of Racism". Book by Paula Rothenberg, 2002.

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