Racism Quotes
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People sometimes hold themselves back because they want to use racism as an excuse for them not being able to achieve what they want to achieve (Racism Quotes)
I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality... I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word (Racism Quotes)
I believe that this nation can only heal from the wounds of racism if we all begin to love blackness. And by that I don’t mean that we love only that which is best within us, but that we’re also able to love that which is faltering, which is wounded, which is contradictory, incomplete (Racism Quotes)
Our only hope today lies in our ability to recapture the revolutionary spirit and go out into a sometimes hostile world declaring eternal hostility to poverty, racism and militarism... We are now faced with the fact, my friends, that tomorrow is today and we are faced with the fierce urgency of now (Racism Quotes)
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 (Racism Quotes)
I don’t understand racism. We are all the same and I have the perfect hypothesis to prove it. I play to all those countries and they cry in all the same places in my show. They laugh in the same places. They become hysterical in the same places. They faint in the same places and that’s the perfect hypothesis. There is a commonality that we are all the same (Racism Quotes)
As we come to know the seriousness of the situation, the war, the racism, the poverty in our world, we come to realize that things will not be changed simply by words or demonstrations. Rather, it’s a question of living one’s life in a drastically different way (Racism Quotes)
We will live with racism for ever. But senses of self, senses of belonging, senses of us and of others? Those are up for grabs (Racism Quotes)
Racism has never done this country any good, and it needs to be fought against, not put under new management for different groups (Racism Quotes)
In order to get beyond racism, we must first take account of race. There is no other way. And in order to treat some persons equally, we must treat them differently (Racism Quotes)
For me or a Bruce Springsteen to sit up in our ivory towers and make comments about racism, well, were not really in it, are we (Racism Quotes)
I don’t think many people understand what racism is. The intellectuals use it like toilet paper; it’s something they can use. It’s not something they live (Racism Quotes)
My belief system is that you laugh at racism, and that’s how it goes away (Racism Quotes)
Racism is a phenomenal thing; it is like a thick mist that obscures the vision and judgement of even great minds (Racism Quotes)
I look at an ant and I see myself: a native South African, endowed by nature with a strength much greater than my size so I might cope with the weight of a racism that crushes my spirit (Racism Quotes)
If a man like Malcolm X could change and repudiate racism, if I myself and other former Muslims can change, if young whites can change, then there is hope for America (Racism Quotes)
Imagine a judicial nominee said ‘my experience as a white man makes me better than a Latina woman.’ Wouldn’t they have to withdraw? New racism is no better than old racism (Racism Quotes)
My encounters with racism are sort of second-hand situations where I might be standing around with a group of white friends and someone makes a comment that they wouldn’t make at my family reunion (Racism Quotes)
Racism is a refuge for the ignorant. It seeks to divide and to destroy. It is the enemy of freedom, and deserves to be met head-on and stamped out (Racism Quotes)
Racism, in the first place, is a weapon used by the wealthy to increase the profits they bring in by paying Black workers less for their work (Racism Quotes)
As much as everyone wants to downplay racism, it exists. There’s a great mistrust among some African - Americans of white people (Racism Quotes)
We African Americans have now spent the major part of the 20th Century battling racism (Racism Quotes)
I came into this whole business by going to see Rock Against Racism gigs with the Clash (Racism Quotes)
I think what I came through is great, but my son can take it to another level, not having to fight racism. His mother’s a Norwegian and I’m mixed up four or five times, so he can face the world (Racism Quotes)
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 (Racism Quotes)
Many people who are drawn to work about racism and transphobia may be new to thinking deeply about colonialism and indigenous resistance in their North America (Racism Quotes)
Accusing somebody of racism is a very effective weapon in Germany. Islamists know this: As soon as you accuse someone of demonizing Islam, then the European side backs down (Racism Quotes)
Although much of the media have their antennae out to pick up anything that might be construed as racism against blacks, they resolutely ignore even the most blatant racism by blacks against others (Racism Quotes)
Those policies [of Jean-Marie Le Pen ]I find repellent. I believe many people right across consist the world do. There is no future in that type of narrow minded racism and nationalism (Racism Quotes)
Skin heads are doing an awful job of promoting racism. You guys need to loosen up, and for god’s sake would it kill you to smile (Racism Quotes)