Racist Quotes - Page 18

• Everyone is so terrified of being labeled a racist.

  Eli Roth

  Terrified

  Interview with Elisa Osegueda, www.fandango.com. May 8, 2013.

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• I've seen how the left has used it to accuse opponents of their version of reform of being bigots and racists.

  Marco Rubio

  Reform, Opponents, Used

  "Here's the truth about my plan for immigration reform" by Marco Rubio, www.foxnews.com. April 23, 2013.

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• Racism tears down your insides so that no matter what you achieve, you're not quite up to snuff.

  Alvin Ailey

  Racism, Tears, Matter

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• I never had that feeling that I had to carry the weight of somebody's ignorance around with me. And that was true for racists who wanted to use the 'n' word when talking about me or about my people, or the stupidity of people who really wanted to belittle other folks because they weren't pretty or they weren't rich or they weren't clever.

  Maya Angelou

  Clever, Ignorance, Talking

  "Exclusive Interview With Maya Angelou on Her New Book, Mom & Me & Mom". Interview With Marianne Schnall, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 10, 2013.

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• There's no rap against comics that isn't true. They were sexist, they were racist, you name it - and they kind of gloried in that.

  Jules Feiffer

  Rap, Names, Kind

  "At 85, Jules Feiffer Finally Gives Us a Graphic Novel". Interview With Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. July/August 2014.

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• If I'm racist, don't think I would have directed shows like 'The Parkers' and 'The Wayans Brothers' or worked 41 episodes with Victoria Rowell on 'Diagnosis: Murder.'

  Scott Baio

  Brother, Thinking, Diagnosis

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

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• History has blessed us with all the freedom and advantages of multiculturalism. But it has also blessed us, because of the accident of our origins, with the linguistic unity that brings a critically needed cohesion to a nation as diverse, multiracial and multiethnic as America. Why gratuitously throw away that priceless asset? How mindless to call the desire to retain it 'racist.

  Charles Krauthammer

  Blessed, America, Unity

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• If you talk about race, it does not make you a racist. If you see distinctions between the genders, it does not make you a sexist. If you think critically about a denomination, it does not make you anti-religion. If you accept but don't celebrate homosexuality, it does not make you a homophobe.

  Charlton Heston

  Thinking, Race, Doe

  Winning the Cultural War, delivered 16 February 1999, Austin Hall, Harvard Law School

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• I'm not trying to say that it never hurt or that I never felt its sting, but I can honestly say that I never blamed anybody for racism. I have considered it more of a manifestation of humanity's problem rather than my personal problem.

  Robert Guillaume

  Hurt, Racism, Humanity

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• I've certainly experienced racism, but it has not made a great impact on me. I have always thought, as I got older and older, I was more in charge of who I was. What someone thought about me or said about me made less of an impression on me at very vulnerable times.

  Robert Guillaume

  Impact, Racism, Vulnerable

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• Racism may be as systemic as it always was. It is the great problem of America. It's the one stumbling block that I don't believe was ever smoothed over.

  Robert Guillaume

  Block, Believe, America

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• What else do we need to know about the political establishment than that it refuses to discuss the crimes that terrify Americans on grounds that doing so is racist? Why isn't that true of complex embezzling, which is 100 percent white and Asian?

  Ron Paul

  White, Political, Asian

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• It’s often said that those who are unduly bothered by gays are latent homosexuals. Isn’t it possible that people obsessed with racism are themselves racist.

  Ann Coulter

  Gay, Racism, People

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• I think clearly Europe has a lot to worry about. When I was working at the CIA - and I always worked with a lot of European services - they always were very condescending toward the United States, saying that we are so racist vis-à-vis blacks and other people.

  Michael Scheuer

  Thinking, Europe, People

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• It is truly difficult to make a democracy. Democracy, like arty dream, is not made with spiritual words but with reflection and practice. It is not what I say that says I am a democrat, that I am not racist or machista but what I do. What I say must not be contradicted by what I do. It is what I do that bespeaks my faithfulness or not to what I say.

  Paulo Freire

  Dream, Spiritual, Reflection

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• Sometimes the things you really want sneak in the back door. Notice.

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Sunshine, Doors, Sneak In

  Mary Anne Radmacher (2008). “Live Boldly: Cultivate the Qualities That Can Change Your Life”, Conari Press

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• Manage the remarkable balance between acting from your heart and close to your gifts with completing the obligations that your labor and tasks require of you. Leverage opportunity AND seize joy.

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Heart, Opportunity, Joy

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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, Racism

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• I think the most harmful belief passed on to me - not always directly - was the belief that whatever I did as a Negro, however much we Negroes achieved, despite the presence of some enlightened whites, white society as a whole enjoyed being racists in the secret core of their being and would never, ever give that up.

  Margo Jefferson

  Thinking, White, Giving

  Source: www.elle.com

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• The Western notion of masculinity goes back a long way. It doesn’t allow for women, and it’s also racist - it doesn’t allow for other cultures.

  Larry McMurtry

  Other Cultures, Long, Way

  "Novelist Larry McMurtry’s Last Kind Words". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. May 2014.

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• No day passes without a Democratic politician, a left-wing commentator, or, if I may be excused a redundancy, a left-wing academic labeling Republicans and conservatives racist.

  Dennis Prager

  Wings, May, Republican

  Dennis Prager (2015). “Dennis Prager: Volume I”, p.79, Creators Publishing

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• If I go into a club now, all the blonde girls leave my corner and all the black girls come into my corner. It's as if I'm racist towards white girls!

  Boris Becker

  Girl, Sports, White

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• I am certainly not racist; I even like the British.

  Giorgio Moroder

  British

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• It is clear to me that the racism was on the other foot, that really, society in Europe was much more racist - vis-à-vis Arabs at least and black Africans - than American society.

  Michael Scheuer

  Europe, Feet, Racism

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• It’s not illegal to be an asshole. It’s not illegal to be racist, even. It’s not illegal to do anything.

  Ariel Pink

  Illegal

  "Ariel Pink" by Larry Fitzmaurice, pitchfork.com. September 9, 2014.

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