Racist Quotes - Page 11

• A lot of (Kyle's) stories when he was back home in Texas, a lot of his own personal opinions about what he was doing in Iraq, how he viewed Iraqis. Some of what people have described as his racist tendencies towards Iraqis and Muslims when he was going on some of these, you know, killing sprees in Iraq on assignment. So I think there are issues... When he was involved in his - on assignments in terms of what he was doing. A lot of the description that has come out from his book and some of the terminology that he has used, people have described as racist.

  Ayman Mohyeldin

  Hate, Book, Home

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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, Racism, Black

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

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• Shaft was a pop culture figure along t he lines of, I guess, Dirty Harry - except that he wasn't as much of a racist. So yeah, I was always a fan.

  Jeffrey Wright

  Dirty, Fans, Culture

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• Most African Americans, especially the men and women from my generation, would accept the nationalist gambit that says only European Americans can be racists, which is an interesting gambit.

  Anthony Braxton

  Men, Interesting, African American

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• If I was in a room with a bunch of skinheads talking about racism, then I would be disturbed, but after we finished a take, we were normal people again.

  Edward Furlong

  Talking, Racism, People

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

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• Benji usually tries to match his hair with his underwear, and you know how he had the pink hair for a while well we caught him in a pink thong one day!

  Joel Madden

  Hair, Trying, One Day

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• Be true. Be beautiful. Be free. In the midst of segregation and racism Mamma raised us to be independent and free. We saw ourselves as citizens of the world, not of a block.

  Debbie Allen

  Beautiful, Block, Independent

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• He is racist, he's homophobic, he's xenophobic and he's a sexist. He's the perfect Republican candidate. [California Democratic Party chairman about Pat Buchanan.]

  Bill Press

  Party, California, Perfect

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• I continue to care for President Obama and for his family. I think that in many ways they are very courageous people, and I honor that, because I know what it means to live as a black person in a racist America.

  Alice Walker

  Mean, Thinking, America

  "'Democratic Womanism': Poet and Activist Alice Walker on Women Rising, Obama and the 2012 Election". "Democracy Now" with Amy Goodman, www.democracynow.org. September 28, 2012.

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• Unfortunately, little attention was paid to how Arafat ruled. In fact, some saw the harsh and repressive nature of Arafat's regime as actually bolstering the prospects for peace.

  Natan Sharansky

  Peace, Attention, Literature

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• You'll hear people say it's racist to test. Folks, it's racist not to test. Because guess who gets shuffled through the system oftentimes? Children whose parents don't speak English as a first language, inner-city kids. It's so much easier to quit on somebody than to remediate.

  George W. Bush

  Children, Humor, Kids

  "President Bush Addresses Taxes, Social Security in Independence, Missouri". CNN Live Event/Special, www.cnn.com. August 21, 2001.

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• I think, unfortunately, some people are just bad, they're just born bad, and I don't know why.

  Mills Lane

  Thinking, People, Born

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• In America, racism exists but racists are all gone. Racists belong to the past. Racists are the thin-lipped mean white people in the movies about the civil rights era. Here's the thing: the manifestation of racism has changed but the language has not. So if you haven't lynched somebody then you can't be called a racist. If you're not a bloodsucking monster, then you can't be called a racist. Somebody has to be able to say that racists are not monsters.

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

  Mean, Past, Rights

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• A people who have suffered so much for so long at hands of a racist society must draw the line somewhere.... the black communities of America must rise up as one man to halt the progression of a trend that leads inevitably to their total destruction.

  Bobby Seale

  Men, Hands, America

  Bobby Seale (1991). “Seize the Time: The Story of the Black Panther Party and Huey P. Newton”, p.162, Black Classic Press

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• But here’s the thing: Appropriation occurs when a style leads to racist generalizations or stereotypes where it originated, but is deemed as high fashion, cool, or funny when the privileged take it for themselves. Appropriation occurs when the appropriator is not aware of the deep significance of the culture that they are partaking in.

  Amandla Stenberg

  Fashion, Style, Culture

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• When these Asians go out looking for a victim, they don't go looking for Asian victims. They don't go mugging Asian grandmas, they don't go stabbing each other, they don't go trying to solicit sex off little Pritesh or little Sanjita, they go straight to the whites because they are trying to destroy us and they are the racists.

  Mark Collett

  Sex, Grandma, Trying

  "Retrial begins of BNP leaders accused of stirring racial hatred" by Martin Wainwright, www.theguardian.com. November 3, 2006.

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• With respect to drugs, you know, there are a lot of organizations, including an enormous budget and an army at the federal government level that tries to deal with the drug problem.

  Burke Marshall

  Army, Government, Organization

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• The really important victory of the civil rights movement was that it made racism unpopular, whereas a generation ago at the turn of the last century, you had to embrace racism to get elected to anything.

  Carol Moseley Braun

  Rights, Racism, Victory

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• Bosnia is a complicated country: three religions, three nations and those "others". Nationalism is strong in all three nations; in two of them there are a lot of racism, chauvinism, separatism; and now we are supposed to make a state out of that.

  Alija Izetbegovic

  Country, Strong, Two

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• I, for one, would think both about how far we have come as a country and how much further we need to go to erase racism and discrimination from our society.

  Charles Rangel

  Country, Thinking, Racism

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• The roots of racism lie deep in man's nature, wounded and bruised by original sin.

  Sargent Shriver

  Lying, Men, Roots

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• I grow dizzy when I recall that the number of manufactured tanks seems to have been more important to me than the vanished victims of racism.

  Albert Speer

  Numbers, Racism, Important

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• Black reporters are as capable of racism as anyone else.

  Julian Bond

  Racism, Black, Reporters

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• You'd never know that listening to people in the UN but tribalism is the father of racism.

  Stanley Crouch

  Father, Racism, People

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• First there was racism. Then liberals created institutional racism and coded racism. You can only hear it with a dog whistle.

  Evan Sayet

  Dog, Racism, Firsts

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