Racism Quotes - Page 7

• There's a lot more hypocrisy than before. Racism has gone back underground.

  Richard Pryor

  Hypocrisy, Gone

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• Truth is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor.

  Malcolm X

  Truth, Hajj, Civil Rights

  "Malcolm X Speaks". Book by George Breitman, 1965.

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• In some not too distant tomorrow the radiant stars of love and brotherhood will shine over our great nation with all their scintillating beauty.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Kings, Stars, Shining

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.: "I Have a Dream" and Other Great Writings”, p.106, Beacon Press

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• When we're unemployed, we're called lazy; when the whites are unemployed it's called a depression.

  Jesse Jackson

  Depression, Work, Political

  Quoted in David Frost, The Americans (1970)

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• I advance it therefore as a suspicion only, that the blacks, whether originally a distinct race, or made distinct by time and circumstances, are inferior to the whites in the endowments of both body and mind.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Race, Mind, Body

  Thomas Jefferson (1854). “The writings of Thomas Jefferson: being his autobiography, correspondence, reports, messages, addresses, and other writings, official and private”, p.386

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• I say to you quite frankly that the time for racial discrimination is over.

  Jimmy Carter

  Time, Discrimination, Racial Discrimination

  Jimmy Carter (2016). “A Full Life: Reflections at Ninety”, p.101, Simon and Schuster

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• The international community cannot accept that whole communities are marginalized because of the color of their skin. People of African descent are among those most affected by racism. Too often, they face denial of basic rights such as access to quality health services and education. Such fundamental wrongs have a long and terrible history.

  Ban Ki-moon

  Rights, Race, Color

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• I give interracial couples a look. Daggers. They get uncomfortable when they see me on the street.

  Spike Lee

  Couple, Giving, Looks

  "Spike Lee Hates Your Cracker Ass" by Barbara Grizzuti Harrison, www.esquire.com. October 1992.

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• Feminism is to sexism what black nationalism is to racism; the most rational response to the problem.

  Pearl Cleage

  Justice, Diversity, Black

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• Evil is the shadow of angel. Just as there are angels of light, support, guidance, healing and defense, so we have experiences of shadow angels. And we have names for them: racism, sexism, homophobia are all demons - but they're not out there.

  Matthew Fox

  Women, Angel, Healing

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• I resolutely believe that respect for diversity is a fundamental pillar in the eradication of racism, xenophobia and intolerance. There is no excuse for evading the responsibility of finding the most suitable path toward the elimination of any expression of discrimination against indigenous peoples.

  Rigoberta Menchu

  Respect, Xenophobia, Believe

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• Using the power you derive from the discovery of the truth about racism in South Africa, you will help us to remake our part of the world into a corner of the globe on which all - of which all of humanity can be proud.

  Oliver Tambo

  Truth, Discovery, Humanity

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• We talk of regional conflicts, of economic and social crises, of political instability, of abuses of human rights, of racism, religious intolerance, inequalities between rich and poor, hunger, over-population, under-development and. I could go on and on. Each and every one of these impediments to humanity's pursuit of well-being are also among the root causes of refugee problems.

  Poul Hartling

  Religious, Roots, Rights

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• I refuse to accept the view . . . that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Peace, Kings, Unconditional Love

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.: "I Have a Dream" and Other Great Writings”, p.116, Beacon Press

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• We got to do something about these Asians coming in and opening up business and dirty shops. They ought to go.

  Marion Barry

  Dirty, Opening Up, Racist

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• (Obama's) a nice person, he's very articulate this is what's been used against him, but he couldn't sell watermelons if it, you gave him the state troopers to flag down the traffic.

  Dan Rather

  Nice, Flags, Racist

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• The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color-line, -- the relation of the darker to the lighter races of men in Asia and Africa, in America and the islands of the sea.

  W. E. B. Du Bois

  Men, Islands, Race

  The Souls of Black Folk ch. 2 (1903)

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• I do not think white America is committed to granting equality to the American Negro... this is a passionately racist country; it will continue to be so in the foreseeable future.

  Susan Sontag

  Country, Equality, Thinking

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• If we talk about the environment, for example, we have to talk about environmental racism - about the fact that kids in South Central Los Angeles have a third of the lung capacity of kids in Santa Monica.

  Danny Glover

  Kids, Environmental, Santa

  Interview with Sarah van Gelder, www.yesmagazine.org. March 31, 2001.

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• Obama a ‘light-skinned’ African-American ‘with no Negro dialect, unless he wanted to have one.

  Harry Reid

  Country, Light, Presidential

  "Harry Reid’s Non-Gaffe" by Kevin Drum, www.motherjones.com. January 10, 2010.

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• I do not think it is an exaggeration at all to say to my friend from West Virginia [Sen. Robert C. Byrd, a former Ku Klux Klan recruiter] that he would have been a great senator at any moment. . . . He would have been right during the great conflict of civil war in this nation.

  Christopher Dodd

  War, Thinking, Virginia

  "Dodd praise for Byrd hit by GOP". www.washingtontimes.com. April 8, 2004.

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• Lukewarm acceptance is more bewildering than outright rejection.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Acceptance, Rejection

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• I want to go up to the closest white person and say: 'You can't understand this, it's a black thing' and then slap him, just for my mental health.

  Charles Barron

  White, Black, Want

  "Stupid Black Men: How to Play the Race Card: And Lose". Book by Larry Elder, www.amazon.ca. 2008.

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• Them Jews aren't going to let (Obama) talk to me. I told my baby daughter, that he'll talk to me in five years when he's a lame duck, or in eight years when he's out of office. ...They will not let him talk to somebody who calls a spade what it is.

  Jeremiah Wright

  Daughter, Baby, Eight

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• I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy. I mean, that's a storybook, man.

  Joe Biden

  Stupid, Nice, Mean

  "Biden's description of Obama draws scrutiny" by Xuan Thai, Ted Barrett, www.cnn.com. February 9, 2007.

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