Racist Quotes - Page 37

• All our silences in the face of racist assault are acts of complicity.

  Bell Hooks

  Silence, Faces, Assault

  "Killing Rage: Ending Racism". Book by Bell Hooks, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 15, 1995.

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• Christianity is a lifestyle - a way of being in the world that is simple, non-violent, shared, and loving. However, we made it into an established "religion" (and all that goes with that) and avoided the lifestyle change itself. One could be warlike, greedy, racist, selfish, and vain in most of Christian history, and still believe that Jesus is one's "personal Lord and Savior" . . . The world has no time for such silliness anymore. The suffering on Earth is too great.

  Richard Rohr

  Christian, Jesus, Selfish

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• I know that societies often have killed people who have helped to change those societies. And if I can die having brought any light, having exposed any meaningful truth that will help destroy the racist cancer that is malignant in the body of America, then, all credit is due to Allah. Only the mistakes have been mine.

  Malcolm X

  Meaningful, Wisdom, Mistake

  Malcolm X (2015). “The Autobiography of Malcolm X”, p.440, Ballantine Books

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• Things like racism are institutionalized. You might not know any bigots. You feel like "well I don't hate black people so I'm not a racist," but you benefit from racism. Just by the merit, the color of your skin. The opportunities that you have, you're privileged in ways that you might not even realize because you haven't been deprived of certain things. We need to talk about these things in order for them to change.

  Dave Chappelle

  Hate, Opportunity, Order

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• This president (Barack Obama) I think has exposed himself over and over and over again as a guy who has a deep-seated hatred for white people or the white culture . . . I’m not saying he doesn't like white people, I’m saying he has a problem. This guy is, I believe, a racist.

  Glenn Beck

  Believe, Thinking, White

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• Open discussion of many major public questions has for some time now been taboo. We can't open our mouths without being denounced as racists, misogynists, supremacists, imperialists or fascists. As for the media, they stand ready to trash anyone so designated.

  Saul Bellow

  Media, Political, Mouths

  "Bellow in his own words". www.theguardian.com. April 6, 2005.

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• It is a lie that America is racist

  Dennis Prager

  Lying, America

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• In order to fly, all one must do is simply miss the ground.

  Douglas Adams

  Order, Missing

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• I don't much care who is gay or straight or married or not. I mostly notice if they are brave enough to confront bigotry.

  Jasmine Guy

  Gay, Brave, Care

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• I love Canadians because I don't see very much racism in Canada.

  Patti LaBelle

  Racism, Canada

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• Anyone who tries to make a distinction between education and entertainment doesn't know the first thing about either.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Trying, Firsts, Entertainment

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• Music when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder.

  John Ruskin

  Music, Teacher, Order

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• An educated man is thoroughly inoculated against humbug, thinks for himself and tries to give his thoughts, in speech or on paper, some style.

  Alan K. Simpson

  Education, Men, Thinking

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• The word 'racism' is like ketchup. It can be put on practically anything - and demanding evidence makes you a 'racist.'

  Thomas Sowell

  Racism, Conservative, Evidence

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• Our republican system was meant for a homogeneous people. As long as blacks continue to live with the whites they constitute a threat to the national life. Family life may also collapse and the increase of mixed breed bastards may some day challenge the supremacy of the white man.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Men, White Man, Long

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• Race is the great taboo in our society. We are afraid to talk about it. White folks fear their unspoken views will be deemed racist. People of color are filled with sorrow and rage at unrighted wrongs. Drowning in silence, we are brothers and sisters drowning each other. Once we decide to transform ourselves from fearful caterpillars into courageous butterflies, we will be able to bridge the racial gulf and move forward together towards a bright and colorful future.

  Eva Paterson

  Brother, Moving, Future

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• Black racism is a myth created by whites to ease their guilt feelings. As long as whites can be assured that blacks are racists, they can find reasons to justify their own oppression of’ black people.

  James H. Cone

  White, Long, Racism

  James H. Cone “Black Theology and Black Power”, Orbis Books

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• Curator Shantrelle P. Lewis left for Amsterdam an Andy Warhol fellow, and came back with a film in her pocket. Please support this confrontation of the Netherlands' violently passive aggressive racist traditions, by an American Southern, aggressive aggressive. She's a top notch thinker and lover of questions.

  dream hampton

  Support, Southern, Pockets

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• Nobody thought Mel Gibson could play a Scot, but look at him now! Alcoholic and a racist!

  Frankie Boyle

  Funny, Humor, Play

  "Frankie Boyle Live", 2008.

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• If liberals were prevented from ever again calling Republicans dumb, they would be robbed of half their arguments. To be sure, they would still have racist, fascist, homophobe, ugly, and a few other highly nuanced arguments in the quiver. But the loss of dumb would nearly cripple them.

  Ann Coulter

  Loss, Dumb, Would Be

  Ann Coulter (2007). “If Democrats Had Any Brains, They'd Be Republicans”, p.159, Crown Forum

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• I don't know why I get away with some things. But I'm not a misogynistic, racist person. Yet I do find those jokes funny, so I say them. And I try to say everything kind of in a good spirit.

  Daniel Tosh

  Funny, Trying, Spirit

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

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• If white American feminist theory need not deal with the differences between us, and the resulting difference in our oppressions, then how do you deal with the fact that the women who clean your houses and tend your children while you attend conferences on feminist theory are, for the most part, poor women and women of Color? What is the theory behind racist feminism?

  Audre Lorde

  Children, Color, White

  Audre Lorde (2012). “Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches”, p.112, Crossing Press

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• If a young fella has an option of having a decent career or joining the army to fight in Iraq, you can bet your life that he would not be in Iraq.

  Charles Rangel

  Stupid, Army, Fighting

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• We learn to be racist, therefore we can learn not to be racist. Racism is not genetical. It has everything to do with power.

  Jane Elliott

  Racism

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• If we talk about the environment, for example, we have to talk about environmental racism - about the fact that kids in South Central Los Angeles have a third of the lung capacity of kids in Santa Monica.

  Danny Glover

  Kids, Racism, Environmental

  Interview with Sarah van Gelder, www.yesmagazine.org. March 31, 2001.

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