Racist Quotes - Page 9

• Eight more days and I can start telling the truth again

  Christopher Dodd

  Stupid, Eight, Telling The Truth

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• African Americans watch the same news at night that ordinary Americans do.

  William J. Clinton

  Stupid, Night, African American

  Clinton, William J. (1995). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1994”, p.1940, Best Books on

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• Our nation honors its unbroken line of fallen heroes - and I see many of them in the audience here today.

  Barack Obama

  Stupid, Hero, Honor

  "Obama's Forgettable Memorial Day". www.slate.com. May 27, 2008.

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• Yes, racism looks like hate, but hate is just one manifestation. Privilege is another. Access is another. Ignorance is another. Apathy is another, and so on. So while I agree with people who say no one is born racist, it remains a powerful system that we're immediately born into. It's like being born into air: you take it in as soon as you breathe.

  Scott Woods

  Powerful, Hate, Ignorance

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• Education in this country is about how to maintain the status quo and to perpetuate racism.

  Jane Elliott

  Country, Maintaining The Status Quo, Racism

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• The overwhelming condemnation makes it clear we have made enormous progress in teaching everyone that racism is bad. Where we seem to have dropped the ball... is in teaching people what racism actually is ... which allows people to say incredibly racist things while insisting they would never.

  Jon Stewart

  Teaching, Racism, People

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• Bosnia is a complicated country: three religions, three nations and those "others". Nationalism is strong in all three nations; in two of them there are a lot of racism, chauvinism, separatism; and now we are supposed to make a state out of that.

  Alija Izetbegovic

  Country, Strong, Two

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• I have never experienced racism in the feminist movement, so it concerned me to think that I was unable to see the subject clearly because I came from white, middle-class privilege.

  Betty Buckley

  Thinking, Class, White

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• As for the Pope, I am too old to be frightened by his shadow, and am quite sure his shadow or Substance will do less harm to the liberties of my country than will a party, who seek to acquire political power by exciting religious bigotry in the minds of their duped followers.

  Ezra Cornell

  Country, Religious, Party

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• Your political system is actually too democratic. The fact that Americans vote on every bill and proposition can prolong bigotry indefinitely, especially where it is aimed at minority groups.

  George Michael

  Political, Groups, Minorities

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• It's a lot of anti-gay, racist humor—which people like in America—all couched in 'I'm telling it like it is.' He's in the right place at the right time for that gee-shucks, proud-to-be-a-redneck, I'm-just-a-straight-shooter-multimillionaire-in-cutoff-flannel-selling-ring-tones act. That's where we are as a nation now. We're in a state of vague American values and anti-intellectual pride.

  David Cross

  Pride, Gay, Redneck

  "David Cross returns to stand-up to make America great again". Interview with Dustin Waters, www.charlestoncitypaper.com. February 24, 2016.

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• Some people say Larry the Cable Guy's only successful because he's pandering to the lowest common denominator, blatantly and not ironically exploiting people's racist and homophobic tendencies. Don't listen to these people, Larry. They're just bitter and jealous and right.

  Greg Giraldo

  Funny, Jealous, Successful

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• If you see something is going wrong within politics and the world today, then some Hip Hop artist is gonna come along and get straight with it. If they think that there's a lot of racism going on then there's another Hip Hop artist who's gonna come out and speak their mind.

  Afrika Bambaataa

  Artist, Thinking, Racism

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• At the Oscars, if you didn't vote for '12 Years a Slave' you were a racist.

  Gary Oldman

  Years, Oscars, Vote

  "Gary Oldman Rants About Political Correctness, Defends Mel Gibson And Alec Baldwin (UPDATE)". Playboy Interview, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 24, 2014.

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• I'm not a racist. That's what's so insane about this.

  Michael Richards

  Insane

  "'Seinfeld' Star Michael Richards Apologizes on 'Letterman' for Racial Slurs". "Late Show With David Letterman", www.foxnews.com. November 21, 2006.

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• I'm not a racist, that's what so insane about this. And yet it is said. It comes through, it fires out of me, and even now in the passion that's here as I confront myself.

  Michael Richards

  Passion, Fire, Insane

  "Condemn offensive speech, but don't try to prohibit it" by Clarence Page, articles.baltimoresun.com. November 28, 2006.

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• In some ways I feel sorry for racists and for religious fanatics, because they so much miss the point of being human, and deserve a sort of pity. But then I harden my heart, and decide to hate them all the more, because of the misery they inflict and because of the contemptible excuses they advance for doing so.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Religious, Sorry, Hate

  Christopher Hitchens (2009). “Letters to a Young Contrarian”, p.109, Basic Books

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• I didn't fight this fight for the blacks, the whites or the Spanish, I fought th fight for the people. We're all God's children. I don't see color. I'm not a racist When I look at Gerry Cooney, I just see a man trying to take my head off.

  Larry Holmes

  Children, Fighting, Men

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• Nichelle Nichols had decided leave the original Star Trek series after the first season. Fed up with racist harassment and limitation, culminating with her learning that studio executives were withholding her fan mail, she submitted her resignation. She withdrew it when Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. convinced her that her role was too important a cultural breakthrough to leave.

  Nichelle Nichols

  Kings, Stars, Important

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• Isn't it a little racist to call it Black Friday?

  Joy Behar

  Friday, Stupid, Black

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• These days I am a teetotal, mean-spirited, right-wing, narrow-minded, conservative Christian bigot, but not a racist.

  Jane Russell

  Christian, Mean, Wings

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

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• If you're a sexist, racist, homophobe, or basically an asshole, don't buy this CD. I don't care if you like me, I hate you.

  Kurt Cobain

  Hate, Cds, Care

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• To stand together against homophobic, sexist, misogynistic, anti-Semitic and racist agendas. I’m an optimist and I can’t help but feel hopeful about the future of film - especially looking at all the beautiful people in this room. Martin Luther King Jr. said, ‘Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.’ I would like to encourage everyone in this room to please speak up.

  Jessica Chastain

  Beautiful, Kings, People

  "Watch Jessica Chastain’s Impassioned Speech For Diversity In Hollywood" by Christopher Rosen, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 26, 2015.

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• I have no hatred for cops. I have hatred for racists and brutal people, but not necessarily the cops. The cops are just doing what they're told to do.

  Ice T

  People, Hatred, Cop

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• My grandmother was born in 1900, and she would regale me with tales I call 'Little House on the Prairie' tales, but they were tales of segregated and racist America growing up in Alabama and Mississippi, where she came from.

  David Alan Grier

  Growing Up, Grandmother, America

  "David Alan Grier's 'Sporting Life' On Broadway". "Fresh Air", www.npr.org. May 22, 2012.

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