Racism Quotes
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I’ve certainly experienced racism, but it has not made a great impact on me. I have always thought, as I got older and older, I was more in charge of who I was. What someone thought about me or said about me made less of an impression on me at very vulnerable times (Racism Quotes)
We can go on talking about racism and who treated whom badly, but what are you going to do about it? Are you going to wallow in that or are you going to create your own agenda? (Racism Quotes)
I grow dizzy when I recall that the number of manufactured tanks seems to have been more important to me than the vanished victims of racism (Racism Quotes)
Racism is a system of power and in the absence of power you cannot be considered a racist (Racism Quotes)
Everybody’s scared for their ass. There aren’t too many people ready to die for racism. They’ll kill for racism but they won’t die for racism (Racism Quotes)
Abortion and racism are both symptoms of a fundamental human error. The error is thinking that when someone stands in the way of our wants, we can justify getting that person out of our lives. Abortion and racism stem from the same poisonous root, selfishness (Racism Quotes)
Abortion and racism are evil twins, born of the same lie. Where racism now hides its face in public, abortion is accomplishing the goals of which racism only once dreamed. Together, abortionists are destroying humanity at large and the black community in particular (Racism Quotes)
The policemen or soldiers are only a gun in the establishments hand. They make the racist secure in his racism (Racism Quotes)
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 (Racism Quotes)
A lot of different races and nationalities play football, so it is a good way to try and stop racism (Racism Quotes)
In the end, as any successful teacher will tell you, you can only teach the things that you are. If we practice racism then it is racism we teach (Racism Quotes)
I found this out over the years, that racism is a thinly veiled disguise over economics and money. It really is (Racism Quotes)
My dad worked two jobs and moved us to the suburbs, and just being a black person, I went through a lot of racism and being called names and being bullied every single day. And it was hard. I didn’t have any friends (Racism Quotes)
I think we’ve made tremendous progress on racism. We’ve even made progress on war. We’ve made almost no progress on poverty (Racism Quotes)
The horror of class stratification, racism, and prejudice is that some people begin to believe that the security of their families and communities depends on the oppression of others, that for some to have good lives there must be others whose lives are truncated and brutal (Racism Quotes)
Racism should never have happened and so you don’t get a cookie for reducing it (Racism Quotes)
I resolutely believe that respect for diversity is a fundamental pillar in the eradication of racism, xenophobia and intolerance. There is no excuse for evading the responsibility of finding the most suitable path toward the elimination of any expression of discrimination against indigenous peoples (Racism Quotes)
Poverty is a weapon of mass destruction. Joblessness is a weapon of mass destruction, homelessness, a weapon of mass destruction... racism, a weapon of mass destruction, fear, a weapon of mass destruction. We must disarm these weapons and renew our commitment to quality public schools and dedicated teachers and good housing and quality health care and decent jobs and stronger neighborhoods (Racism Quotes)
Feminism is to sexism what black nationalism is to racism; the most rational response to the problem (Racism Quotes)
If we say, as we do, that no one in this country intends for racism to lead to genocide, the effects of racism are genocidal, regardless of our intentions (Racism Quotes)
As a country, we are in a state of denial about issues of race and racism. And too many of our leaders have concluded that the way to remedy racism is to simply stop talking about race (Racism Quotes)
We call for the end of bigotry as we know it. The end of racism as we know it. The end of child abuse in the family as we know it. The end of sexism as we know it. The end of homophobia as we know it. We stand for freedom as we have yet to know it. And we will not be denied (Racism Quotes)
It will do us little good to wire the world if we short circut our souls. There is no delete button for racism, poverty, or sectarian violence. No key stroke can ever clean the air, save a river, preserve a forest. This transformational new technology must be an extension of our hearts as well as of our mind (Racism Quotes)
There was no mistake in us making abortion legal and available on demand. That was what we call progress. Just like it was no mistake that we abolished institutional racism in this country around the same time. The easy thing to do is lay low, but then are we who we say we are? Do we actually stand for anything, if what we do stand for is under attack and we say nothing? There is nothing to be ashamed of here except to allow a radical and recessive group of people to bully and intimidate our mothers and sisters and daughters for exercising their right of choice (Racism Quotes)
Racism is cruel and unjust. It cuts deep and lingers long in individual and community memories. And it is not a thing of the past... We all have a duty to do what we can to turn this around (Racism Quotes)
To make inexpensive guns impossible to get is to say that you’re putting a money test on getting a gun. It’s racism in its worst form (Racism Quotes)
We are not myths of the past, ruins in the jungle, or zoos. We are people and we want to be respected, not to be victims of intolerance and racism (Racism Quotes)
The primary ideology that operated to create, socialize, and reproduce them was not the ideology of racism. It was that of universalism (Racism Quotes)
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 (Racism Quotes)
Whatever your issue is, whether it’s racism or homophobia or policy issues or taxes or urban decay or health care, you’re not going to go anywhere with it if we don’t focus on the concentration of power (Racism Quotes)