Racist Quotes - Page 24

• If only Al Sharpton were around, Lincoln would have known he was a victim of racism.

  Ann Coulter

  Racism, Als, Victim

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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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• If a man like Malcolm X could change and repudiate racism, if I myself and other former Muslims can change, if young whites can change, then there is hope for America.

  Eldridge Cleaver

  Change, Men, America

  ELDRIDGE CLEAVER (1968). “SOUL ON ICE”

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

  Bernardine Dohrn

  Moments, Mass, Murderer

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• I'm not the kind of person who tries to be cool or trendy, I'm definitely an individual.

  Leonardo DiCaprio

  Trying, Kind, Individual

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• First we have to recognize that the cause of poverty is both structural and behavioral. And the first thing about the behavior part is that we need a moral revolution within the African American community. Look - no white racist makes you get pregnant when you are a black teenager.

  Henry Louis Gates

  Teenager, White, Community

  "35 Million Ways to Be Black". Interview with Adam Hochschild, www.motherjones.com. March 14, 2007.

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• America is still mostly xenophobic and racist. That's the nature of America, I think.

  Jerry Garcia

  Thinking, America, Stills

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• I never apologize for the truth. And the truth here is that racists come in many different colors.

  Kinky Friedman

  Color, Different, Apologizing

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

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• One does nothing who tries to console a despondent person with word. A friend is one who aids with deeds at a critical time when deeds are called for.

  Euripides

  Trying, Doe, Deeds

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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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• We are never racist against somebody who is very far away. I don't know any racism against the Eskimos. To have a racist feeling, there must be an other who is slightly different from us - but is living close to us.

  Umberto Eco

  Racism, Feelings, Different

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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'm drawing the gossip surrounding the celebrity, or the image the celebrity tries to push on us.

  Hilary Duff

  Drawing, Gossip, Trying

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• You find them [leftists] everywhere now. They have moved in and corrupted everything, and they've done it by intimidating anybody who might oppose them. They succeed in getting away with calling people racists.

  Rush Limbaugh

  People, Calling, Done

  "The Pope: Trump’s Not a Christian". "The Rush Limbaugh Show", www.rushlimbaugh.com. February 18, 2016.

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• Being 15 and like a punk in the DIY community, basically being with a group of people like no one else, it was the first place to exclude or call out if people were racist, sexist, homophobic or in any way prejudiced.

  Babatunde Adebimpe

  People, Community, Groups

  Source: thequietus.com

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• Your decision to place your law enforcement resources in these communities is racism, but nobody has called people out on this. The law itself is not racist. But people's decision about where we're going to place our efforts, who we're going to prosecute, who we're not going to prosecute, is racism. And nobody's calling them on it.

  Carl Hart

  Law, Racism, People

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I don't know what to say about Asians. I think everyone is "racist," to differing degrees, in that everyone's brain will automatically associate information with other information, based on the information they are looking at (for example skin color, bone structure), but I think focusing on race in any manner that isn't neutral or self-aware probably increases racism.

  Tao Lin

  Thinking, Race, Skin Color

  "Tao Lin: They See Me Trolling". Interview with Peter Heyneman, brightestyoungthings.com. February 4, 2011.

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