Racism Quotes - Page 38

• 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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• It is an absolute impossibility in this society to reversely sexually objectify heterosexual men, just as it is impossible for a poor person of color to be a racist. Such extreme prejudice must be accompanied by the power of society's approval and legislation. While women and poor people of color may become intolerant, personally abusive, even hateful, they do not have enough power to be racist or sexist.

  Ana Castillo

  Power, Men, Color

  Ana Castillo (1995). “Massacre of the Dreamers: Essays on Xicanisma”, Plume Books

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• The notion that black folks have nothing to learn from scholarship that may reflect racial or racist biases is dangerous. It promotes closed-mindedness and a narrow understanding of knowledge to hold that "race" is such an overwhelming concept that it negates the validity of any insights contained in a work that may have some racist or sexist aspects.

  Bell Hooks

  Race, Understanding, African American

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• Speak out, educate, do not be intimidated by the apologists, and do not let extreme racism be mainstreamed. Hopefully there will come a time when we don't need to tell our kids that Halloween is no excuse for hate, and that blackface has no place in a civilized society.

  Christine Pelosi

  Leadership, Halloween, Hate

  "Halloween Is No Excuse for Hate: Blackface Has No Place" by Christine Pelosi, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 27, 2013.

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• The great white city of brotherhood, Washington.

  Christina Stead

  Cities, White, Hypocrisy

  Christina Stead (2016). “The Man Who Loved Children”, p.133, Head of Zeus

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• We black women must forgive black men for not protecting us against slavery, racism, white men, our confusion, their doubts. And black men must forgive black women for our own sometimes dubious choices, divided loyalties, and lack of belief in their possibilities. Only when our sons and our daughters know that forgiveness is real, existent, and that those who love them practice it, can they form bonds as men and women that really can save and change our community.

  Marita Golden

  Loyalty, Daughter, Real

  Marita Golden (2011). “Saving Our Sons”, p.185, Anchor

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• ... social evils are dangerously contagious. The fixed policy of persecution and injustice against a class of women who are weak and defenseless will be necessarily hurtful to the cause of all women.

  Fannie Barrier Williams

  Class, Evil, African American

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• You factor in racism as a reality and you keep moving.

  Jewell Jackson McCabe

  Success, Perseverance, Moving

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• Still, it's clear that there are lots of people out there who are uncomfortable [about racism]. The Civil War was a long time ago but there are aspects of it that remain unsettled.

  Randy Newman

  War, Long, People

  Source: www.slate.com

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• Liberals see racism where it doesn't exist, fabricate it when they can't find it and ignore it within their own ranks.

  Michelle Malkin

  Fabricate

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• Slavery, racism, sexism, and other forms of bigotry, subordination, and human rights abuse transform and adapt with the times.

  John Prendergast

  Rights, Abuse, Slavery

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• In the common esteem, not only are the only good aboriginals dead ones, but all aboriginals are either sacred or contemptible according to the length of time they have been dead.

  Mary Hunter Austin

  Sacred, Common, Imperialism

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