Racist Quotes - Page 21

• I want to be really, really clear about this. It doesn't mean that everyone or even the majority of people who voted for Donald Trump are racist or white supremacists or anything like that. But what it means is that it's not a mistake that Trump began his campaign with birthersism .

  Ta-Nehisi Coates

  Mistake, Mean, White

  Source: www.npr.org

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• There's always someone who's going to interpret my material as racist, but it's not. Racism comes from intent and power. A racist will tell a joke about a group of people only when they're not in the room. I'll talk about a group of people only when they're in the room.

  Russell Peters

  Racism, People, Groups

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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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• But I've never met a racist yet who thinks he's a racist. That's always the disturbing thing about when we begin to look at ourselves.

  Norman Jewison

  Thinking, Looks, Mets

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• It is quite an achievement. People of liberal sympathies, stupefied by relativism, have become the apologists for a creedal wave that is racist, misogynist, homophobic, imperialist, and genocidal. To put it another way, they are up the arse of those that want them dead.

  Martin Amis

  People, Achievement, Arses

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• It really bothers me when some people say that all cops are racist. Of course that's not true. Most of you are just [expletive] to everybody.

  Jeff Ross

  People, Cop, Bother

  Source: www.npr.org

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• [Trump's worldview states] that, for example, women are incompetent as compared to men in business settings. That women in general are intellectually inferior and have to make up for that by using their sexuality to get ahead. That women of color are angry, irrational, lazy, and always ready to get into a fight for no reason. That men in the workplace can say incredibly racist and sexist things, and as long as they make more money than their competitors, the racist and sexist things they say and do are totally acceptable.

  Jennifer Pozner

  Fighting, Men, Color

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• You could put half of Trump's supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables. Right? The racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamaphobic - you name it.

  Hillary Clinton

  Names, Half, Sexist

  At a fund-raiser in Manhattan, as quoted in "Hillary Clinton Calls Many Trump Backers ‘Deplorables,’ and G.O.P. Pounces" by Amy Chozick, www.nytimes.com. Sepember. 10, 2016.

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• I always thought the women of my age group got short shrift because the women's liberation movement came slightly after. You look at the yearbooks and you see the future homemakers of America - hurray for that - but you also see them in the engineers club. You see minority kids as student body presidents at a time when everyone was supposed to be terminally racist. Yearbooks are genres; they're also folk art, folk documentation.

  Kevin Starr

  Art, Kids, Yearbook

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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• Islam doesn't try to destroy cultures; it cleans them up. You can keep your language but get rid of your racist speech. You can keep your style of cooking, but get rid of alcohol. You can keep your cultural dresses, but keep your modesty on the highest level.

  Nouman Ali Khan

  Alcohol, Cooking, Style

  FaceBook post by Nouman Ali Khan from Sep 29, 2014

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• Well, what Cory Booker and John Lewis are right about is to talk about the racist past of Donald Trump.

  John Lewis

  Past, Trump, Wells

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• Racist, sexist, and homophobic thoughts cannot, alas, be abolished by fiat but only by the time-honored methods of persuasion, education and exposure to the other guy's-or excuse me, woman's-point of view.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Views, Guy, Tolerance

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• You know, growing up, I lived in a neighborhood in Long Island where there was basically one black family. And I remember hearing all the parents and the kids in the neighborhood say racist things about this family.

  Lorraine Bracco

  Growing Up, Kids, Islands

  "New Again: Destiny’s Child". www.interviewmagazine.com. January 29, 2013.

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• First of all, do I think there's some racists in the Tea Party? Yeah. I'm an ordained United Methodist pastor; there's some racists in the Methodist church. I don't know if there's a body that does not have some racists in it.

  Emanuel Cleaver

  Party, Thinking, Tea

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• Even in my most inflamed moment I never supported a racist mass murderer.

  Bernardine Dohrn

  Moments, Mass, Murderer

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• All definitions of wilderness that exclude people seem to me to be false. African 'wilderness' areas are racist because indigenous people are being cleared out of them so white people can go on holiday there.

  Jay Griffiths

  Holiday, White, People

  "Call of the wild" by Stephen Moss, www.theguardian.com. June 6, 2007.

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• You don't smear somebody as a racist when there is obviously nothing there.

  Bernard Goldberg

  "O'REILLY FACTOR: 'Bill Maher Doesn't Have An Ounce Of Courage'" by Steven Loeb, www.businessinsider.com. February 15, 2011.

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• Actually, I think we all understand just fine why Donald Trump is president: because he ran a racist, boorish, epically mendacious campaign and Republicans all decided to go along with it. And even that wouldn’t have been enough if Trump hadn’t gotten some additional help from his pals James Comey and Vladimir Putin.

  Kevin Drum

  Thinking, President, Campaigns

  "Trump Team Still Doesn’t Seem to Understand They’re in the White House Now" by Kevin Drum, www.motherjones.com. January 26, 2017.

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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 am not the Jeff Sessions my detractors have tried to create. I am not a racist. I am not insensitive to blacks.

  Jeff Sessions

  Insensitive, Session

  "Sen. Jeff Sessions Shares Donald Trump's Hardline View On Immigration". "Morning Edition" with Renee Montagne, ksmu.org. July 14, 2016.

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• At the end of the day, if millions of people come together and say, we are not going to be a xenophobic society, we are not going to be throwing millions of Latinos out of this country, we are not going to be a racist society, we're not going to be a sexist society, we will prevail.

  Bernie Sanders

  Country, People, The End Of The Day

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• We cannot go back to a racist, sexist, homophobic, Islamophobic type of society.

  Bernie Sanders

  Sexist, Type, Homophobic

  Source: www.pbs.org

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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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