Racist Quotes - Page 33

• In high school I dated a white woman. She would come to visit me on the rez. And her dad, who was very racist, didn't like that at all. And he told her one time, 'You shouldn't go on the rez if you're white because Indians have a lot of anger in their heart.'

  Sherman Alexie

  Dad, Anger, Heart

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• I'm racist? How can that even be possible? I was a friend of Michael Jackson's back when he was black.

  Joan Rivers

  Black, Back When

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• It's been fascinating over the last few years, watching the high and mighty in business and politics fall precipitously-not because their plans didn't work, but because their character flaws undercut those plans. Whether the microphone caught them making racist comments or their greed overcame their common sense, who they were as people made all the difference-more than their résumés, their degrees, or even their past successes. If you fail at the art of being human and staying human, you recklessly court disaster.

  Marianne Williamson

  Art, Fall, Character

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• I was literally the black sheep of the family, and there were definitely moments of discomfort while my grandmother was working through her racism.

  Lisa Bonet

  Grandmother, Sheep, Racism

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• To avoid being sexist and racist, we should assume that half the perpetrators of violent crimes are white, liberal women.

  Michael Z. Williamson

  White, Half, Politics

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• Go look at what any liberal says about anybody they disagree with, and especially conservatives, the first thing you're gonna hear them talk about is hate, too much hate. Then you'll hear racist, and then bigoted, and automatically homophobic, intolerant. Just go down the list. And they all believe it about any conservative alive. And, in many of their cases, about any Republican alive.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Hate, Believe, Conservative

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Bigotry and judgment are the height of insecurity.

  Jasmine Guy

  Insecurity, Height, Judgment

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• For far too long we've allowed the other side to paint us as racist, as sexist, inhumane war mongers - well, today as a conservative black Republican and former soldier, I'm here to set that record straight.

  Allen West

  War, Long, Soldier

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• Let that which stood in front go behind, let that which was behind advance to the front, let bigots, fools, unclean persons, offer new propositions, let the old propositions be postponed.

  Walt Whitman

  Change, Fool, Behinds

  Walt Whitman, Sculley Bradley, Harold W. Blodgett (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856”, p.264, NYU Press

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• No matter what vision one has of South Africa, the first thing that must be done is to destroy racism.

  Joe Slovo

  Racism, Vision, Done

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• What had begun as a movement to free all black people from racist oppression became a movement with its primary goal the establishment of black male patriarchy.

  Bell Hooks

  People, Goal, Black

  bell hooks (2014). “Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism”, p.5, Routledge

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• 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, but I think focusing on race in any manner that isn't neutral or self-aware probably increases racism.

  Tao Lin

  Thinking, Racism, Brain

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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• The problem is there's a new group. I'm talking about this tiny slice of people that have gotten way too fired up about the Trump thing for the wrong reasons. I'm talking about these people that as soon as Trump won, they're like, we don't have to pretend like we're not racist anymore. We don't have to pretend anymore. We can be racist again. Whoa, whoa, whoa, no, no. If you're one of these people, please go back to pretending.

  Aziz Ansari

  People, Problem, Reason

  "Aziz Ansari On 'Master Of None' And How His Parents Feel About Acting". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. May 24, 2017.

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• That's why this generation is the least racist generation ever. You see it all the time. Go to any club. People are intermingling, hanging out, having fun, enjoying the same music. Hip-hop is not just in the Bronx anymore. It's worldwide. Everywhere you go, people are listening to hip-hop and partying together. Hip-hop has done that.

  Jay-Z

  Fun, Party, Nightlife

  "Letter to the President" (Video), www.imdb.com. 2005.

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• Just what future the Designer of the universe has provided for the souls of men I do not know, I cannot prove. But I find that the whole order of Nature confirms my confidence that, if it is not like our noblest hopes and dreams, it will transcend them.

  Henry Norris Russell

  Life, Dream, Men

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• I try to support groups that are about educating people about different races, different religions, different cultures and different situations so that we can break down the barriers of prejudice and bigotry.

  Loretta Sanchez

  Race, People, Support

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• Christian virtues unite men. Racism separates them.

  Sargent Shriver

  Christian, Men, Racism

  "Shriver Moves Into the Front Rank" by Anthony Lewis, www.nytimes.com. March 15, 1964.

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• Racists are irrational and illogical in their attempts to justify their prejudices.

  Sargent Shriver

  Prejudice, Irrational, Illogical

  Sargent Shriver (1964). “Point of the lance”

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• Racism cannot be cured solely by attacking some of the results it produces, like discrimination in housing or in education.

  Sargent Shriver

  Education, Racism, Discrimination

  Sargent Shriver (1964). “Point of the lance”

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• Well, I'm not afraid to say something if I think it's funny, even if it's harsh or racist.

  Sarah Silverman

  Thinking, Comedy, Harsh

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

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• Was any criticism of Obama permitted? It was not. We can't criticize the president of the United States. Why? Because he's African-American. And any criticism is said to be racist. And so we have more racists in America today than we've ever had by definition of criticizing the president.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Criticism, President, Today

  "Is There Pressure to Vote for the First Woman?". "The Rush Limbaugh Show", www.rushlimbaugh.com. November 4, 2016.

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• My grandmother though, began to prepare in her own neurotic - and I think psychotic - way to face racism. So she taught us to be racist, which is something I had to undo later when I got to Michigan, you know.

  James Earl Jones

  Grandmother, Thinking, Taught Us

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• White people are so unappreciative, they don't even acknowledge and understand what it means to be white in Canada, and all the layers of privilege that come with that. So they're shocked when somebody says, 'What just happened is racist,' and they said, 'Oh no, couldn't possibly be.' They see racism as people with KKK gowns and pointy hoods with eyes cut out. And we had those too.

  Constance Backhouse

  Mean, Eye, Cutting

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• To call someone anti-American, indeed, to be anti-American, (or for that matter anti-Indian, or anti-Timbuktuan) is not just racist, it's a failure of the imagination. An inability to see the world in terms other than those that the establishment has set out for you: If you're not a Bushie, you're a Taliban. If you don't love us, you hate us. If you're not Good, you're Evil. If you're not with us, you're with the terrorists.

  Arundhati Roy

  Hate, Evil, Imagination

  Arundhati Roy (2003). “War Talk”, p.50, South End Press

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• Wilf: God bless the cactuses! The Doctor: That's cactI. Alien: And that's racist!

  Russell T Davies

  Doctors, Cactus, Aliens

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