Racist Quotes - Page 35

• Since the time of Homer every European, in what he could say about the Orient, was a racist, an imperialist, and almost totally ethnocentric.

  Edward Said

  Orientalism

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• Racism is a system of power and in the absence of power you cannot be considered a racist.

  Sister Souljah

  Racism, Absence

  "We Are At War". Speech at Cheyney State University, www.blackpast.org. 1994.

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• Dr. King kept guns in his home to protect himself and his family. After firebombing and numerous death threats by racists, his application for a permit to carry a gun was denied by the 'may issue' white power structure (Democrat) in that time and place. Let the holiday that celebrates this man’s life include some reflection on the importance of the Second Amendment.

  Massad Ayoob

  Kings, Holiday, Home

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• He was a professional rugby player in the area that I played as a youngster. So a lot of people who I went to school with knew who he was and knew that he was black. So I would get racist taunts in school.

  Ryan Giggs

  Inspirational, School, Player

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• Unfortunately, we are finding the bureaucratic inefficiencies and red tape have a tendency to slow the efforts of individuals and communities working to rebuild.

  Bobby Jindal

  Effort, Community, Tape

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• The hardest thing I had to overcome in life? I think racism. That's so difficult because I don't think anyone can ever understand it. It's not that people don't want to understand it, but they don't want to touch it.

  Herschel Walker

  Sports, Thinking, Racism

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• If in the least particular, one could derange the order of nature, who would accept the gift of life?

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Order, Accepting, Gifts Of Life

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Barbara L. Packer, Joseph Slater, Douglas Emory Wilson (2003). “The Conduct of Life”, p.26, Harvard University Press

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• We were not talking about the average white person: we was talking about the corporate money rich and the racist jive politicians and the lackeys, as we used to call them, for the government who perpetuate all this exploitation and racism.

  Bobby Seale

  Government, Average, Talking

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• Herman Cain is probably well liked by some of the Republicans because it hides the racist elements of the Republican Party. Conservative movement and tea party movement... People like Karl Rove liked to keep the racism very covert. And so Herman Cain provides this great opportunity say you can say ‘Look, this is not a racist, anti-immigrant, anti-female, anti-gay movement. Look we have a black man!'” Garofalo hypothesized. “Look he’s polling well and won a straw poll!

  Janeane Garofalo

  Stupid, Party, Gay

  "Janeane Garofalo To Keith Olbermann: ‘Herman Cain Hides The Racist Elements Of The Republican Party’" by James Crugnale, www.mediaite.com. September 29, 2011.

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• We understand that Nixon's aggression against Vietnam is a racist aggression, that the American war in Vietnam is a racist war, a white man's war...We deplore that you are being used as cannon fodder for U.S. imperialism. We've seen photographs of American bombs and antipersonnel weapons being dropped, wantonly, accidentally perhaps, on your heads, on the heads of your comrades.

  Jane Fonda

  War, Men, White Man

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• I thought I better warn you that I am not one of those politically correct comedians, but it turns out that also I'm not really that racist, homophobic or woman hating either, so you might not notice

  Robin Ince

  Hate, Comedian, Might

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• All racists are irresponsible.

  James A. Baldwin

  Race, Racism, Irresponsible

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• Australia turns out to be a sensational place, albeit one of the most comfortably racist places I've ever been in. They've really settled into their intolerance like an old resentful slipper.

  John Oliver

  Australia, Slippers, Intolerance

  "Australia 'most comfortably racist' country, says British comedian and The Daily Show correspondent John Oliver". www.news.com.au. April 16, 2013.

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• I - listen, racism - being a racist is the worst thing you can say about somebody. I mean, it is such a charged accusation. And I really think people should be very careful before they level that.

  Megyn Kelly

  Mean, Thinking, Racism

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• Good luck to progressive candidates in U.S. Senate elections against the usual rich, white, racist, women-hating pricks they run against.

  Irvine Welsh

  Running, Hate, Good Luck

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• There is a strange kind of tragic enigma associated with the problem of racism. No one, or almost no one, wishes to see themselves as racist; still racism persists, real and tenacious.

  Albert Memmi

  Real, Racism, Wish

  Albert Memmi (2000). “Racism”, p.3, U of Minnesota Press

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• I probably had 150 meetings with Trent Lott. He has said exactly as many racist things to me as Bill Clinton has, which is to say zero.

  Dick Morris

  Zero, Politics, Bills

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• I'm appalled that when I talk about the neo-conservatives it's somehow twisted, some sort of a racist comment.

  Lee Whitnum

  Twisted, Comment

  "Dem U.S. Senate Candidate Calls Opponent A "Whore" For Israel". www.realclearpolitics.com. April 6, 2012.

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• Go to the people and live among them in order to know them and learn from them.

  Y. C. James Yen

  Order, People, Live For Today

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• God is a racist! He has a special elite race of supermen who are going to live above all others in the Holy City, the magical, mystical, marvelous, mysterious Space City!

  David Berg

  Space, Race, Cities

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• If folks can learn to be racist, then they can learn to be anti racist. If being sexist ain't genetic, then, dad gum, people can learn about gender equality.

  Johnnetta B. Cole

  Dad, People, Gum

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• I have spoken all over the world and I have great respect for Muslims, I have great respect for the African people, I have respect for the other races. Even back home in Lousiana, I'm called a racist, but I have respect for the Black people of my country and I want them to have their own life, too, and I want them to be able to pursue their own destiny and not be controlled, and not be damaged.

  David Duke

  Country, Home, Destiny

  David Duke Podcast, www.davidduke.com. August 25, 2006.

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• People say both Obama and I have trouble laughing at ourselves. We can't laugh at ourselves. That would be racist!

  Bobby Jindal

  Laughing, People, Would Be

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• I got a letter from this lady of Russian and Jewish descent. She asked me if I was a racist because I didn't do any White people. I was shocked, because my mandate is to do Black studies. It would have never occurred to me if this lady hadn't written this letter. We decided we were going expand the brand and do everybody.

  Henry Louis Gates

  Laughter, White, People

  "Black Ancestry Matters on 'Finding Your Roots'". Interview with Alexandra Phanor-Faury, www.ebony.com. January 26, 2016.

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• Our society is driven today by so much ethnic discord. We have Black Lives Matter, which I praise and celebrate. We have the demagogues stereotyping Muslims and resurrecting racist stereotypes they used to visit on us. The larger goal is to show that we are all the same, we all come from Africa, and we all have the same larger family tree. It's about the fundamental unity of the human community.

  Henry Louis Gates

  Goal, Community, Tree

  "Black Ancestry Matters on 'Finding Your Roots'". Interview with Alexandra Phanor-Faury, www.ebony.com. January 26, 2016.

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