Racist Quotes - Page 29

• Nobody wants to be racist and I think that most people aren't.

  Helen Fielding

  Thinking, People, Want

  "Dumped Bridget, wrote spy novel". Interview with John Walsh, www.theguardian.com. November 7, 2003.

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• Sometimes if I really want to get someone's attention, I'll start a sentence with something like, "I'm not racist, but..." I say, "I'm not racist, but you look great today." They say, "That wasn't racist at all." I said, "I know. I said I'm not racist. You never listen. Typical Mexican."

  Demetri Martin

  Funny, Mexican, Typical

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• Many people who are forced into emigration suffer and often die tragically; many of their rights are violated, they are obliged to separate from their families and, unfortunately, continue to be subjected to racist attitudes and xenophobia.

  Pope Francis

  Xenophobia, Attitude, Rights

  Source: www.thedailybeast.com

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• My friends often say I'm the most racist person they know against Asians. And it's sort of like, "If I make the joke first, then I have the power and I'm holding the cards and you're not going to put me down for that."

  Pearl Tan

  Cards, Firsts, Persons

  Source: www.sbs.com.au

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• God is great"). Conversations about the practical impossibility of God's existence and the science-based irrationality of an afterlife slid seamlessly into xenophobia over Muslim immigration or the practice of veiling. The New Atheists became the new Islamophobes, their invectives against Muslims resembling the rowdy, uneducated ramblings of backwoods racists rather than appraisals based on intellect, rationality and reason. "Islam, more than any other religion human beings have devised, has all the makings of a thoroughgoing cult of death.

  Sam Harris

  Atheist, Xenophobia, Practice

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• A racist system inevitably destroys and damages human beings; it brutalizes and dehumanizes them, blacks and whites alike.

  Kenneth Clark

  Damage, Humans, Human Beings

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• If someone does something illegal on Twitter - like incite hatred, or make racist remarks, or threaten to rip someone's intestines out if they insult Justin Bieber - then there has to be some way of censuring them.

  Tony Parsons

  Rip, Hatred, Way

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• I mean, some people accuse me of being racist. I'm totally not, I'm just better than everybody else.

  Zach Braff

  Mean, People

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• Look at, look, the Tea Partiers, who are controlling the Republican Party....Their stated policy, publicly stated, is to do whatever it takes to see to it that Obama only serves one term. What's, what does that, what underlines that? 'Screw the country. We're going to whatever we do to get this black man, we can, we're going to do whatever we can to get this black man outta here... It is a racist thing.

  Morgan Freeman

  Country, Party, Men

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• Legal doctrine requiring a showing of evidence of racist intent and a narrow chain of causation has made it very difficult to prove in court that a person or group is experiencing racism because the standards are too narrow and too focused on individual intentions.

  Dean Spade

  Racism, Groups, Doctrine

  "On Normal Life". Interview with Natalie Oswin, societyandspace.org. January 15, 2014.

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• He comes back with the script, and it's racist like a 1940's Newspaper.

  Katt Williams

  Funny, Humor, Scripts

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• When you hear someone criticize a policy on the other side, thats fine. But when you start hearing motive-mongering and demonization, stand up to it just as you would if it were something that was racist or sexist. If we avoid the demonization, disagreements can be positive.

  Jonathan Haidt

  Being Positive, Hearing, Sides

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• If you come to me and say, 'Hey look I'm a racist,' or 'I discriminate against blacks,' or 'I don't like you because you're African American,' I respect that. I can respect you more by doing that. But don't smile in my face, shake my hand, and then you don't really respect me, or want me to be around, or come to your games as the owner of the Clippers.

  Magic Johnson

  Reality, Hands, Games

  "Magic Johnson says Donald Sterling should sell Clippers" by Matt Moore, www.cbssports.com. April 27, 2014.

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• "Racist" is a confusing word, and it should be clarified. Men have no special rights simply because they belong to one race or another. When you say "men," you have already imbued them with all their rights.

  Jose Marti

  Men, Rights, Race

  "My Race". "Patria" Newspaper, April 16, 1893.

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• Tourism has affected Cuba, because tourists come and they bring racist, sexist ideas. They bring a whole vision that there are rich people all over the world and that's the way it should be.

  Assata Shakur

  Ideas, People, Vision

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• The death penalty is used in such a blatantly racist way in the United States. There is no way that can be defended under any kind of definition of justice by anybody.

  Assata Shakur

  Justice, United States, Definitions

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• The most racist, nastiest act by the USA, after human slavery, was the bombing of Nagasaki. Not of Hiroshima, which might have had some military significance. But Nagasaki was purely blowing away men, women, and children.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Children, Military, Men

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• Racism is a form of insanity. Human beings became racist when they started talking. Speech has a lot to do with it.

  Paul Mooney

  Talking, Racism, Insanity

  Source: theaustintimes.com

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• My dad was a complicated man. He was a huge racist, my dad, but he still tried to be a good father, you know? Like, he would tell me that Santa Claus was black - that way, when I found out he didn't exist, it wouldn't be that big a let down.

  Anthony Jeselnik

  Funny, Dad, Father

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• There are thirty to forty thousand left-wing professors in the United States who are racists, murderers, sexual deviants and supporters of Al-Qaeda.

  Pat Robertson

  Wings, United States, Als

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• By encouraging Americans to adopt a group mentality, the advocates of so called 'diversity' actually perpetuate racism. Their obsession with racial group identity is inherently racist.

  Ron Paul

  Racism, Diversity, Identity

  "Government and Racism" by Ron Paul, April 16, 2007.

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• I live in racist America and I'm uneducated, yet a lot of people love me and like what I do, and I can make a living from it. You can't do much better than that.

  Richard Pryor

  America, Racism, People

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

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• I don't mean to be a racist but if you're going to get raped by a Japanese guy, it's not going to hurt at all.

  Chelsea Handler

  Hurt, Mean, Racism

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• Ever since [Donald]Trump has been opening his big mouth, you`re seeing all these bitter people, latent racists who are becoming emboldened. You`re seeing some ugly stuff happening around this country.

  Bernie Sanders

  Country, People, Mouths

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• Part of me also knows that this generation is the least racist and most pro-gay, so that's great. But they have a real lack of gravitas. And they have no taste in music. Vampire Weekend? Can we play some music, please? Can we rock out for a minute? Where's your Metallica?

  Greg Behrendt

  Real, Gay, Weekend

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