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Racism  Quotes
Human beings are very skilled at pretending they are not what they are, and ignoring what is inside them. This includes ignoring their natural instincts, their primal instincts, because they have this notion that they...

—Robert Black

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But the real world doesn’t go away. Racism exists. People are getting hurt. And just because it’s not happening to you, doesn’t mean it’s not happening.

—Trevor Noah

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You have to work a bit harder to offend me because I’m from the home of some of the best racism in the world. I’m a snob when it comes to racism.

—Trevor Noah

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Racism negates two aspects of man’s life: reason and choice, or mind and morality, replacing them with chemical predestination.

—Ayn Rand

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for both parties to take up recognition that racism exists.

—Ari Fleischer

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Not long ago, having expressed some disagreements in print with an old comrade of long standing, I was sent a response that he had published in an obscure newspaper. This riposte referred to my opinions...

—Christopher Hitchens

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The Cold Within”Six humans trapped in happenstanceIn dark and bitter cold, Each one possessed a stick of wood, Or so the story’s told.The first woman held hers backFor of the faces around the fire,She noticed...

—James Patrick Kinney

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If you believe that I’m a cop killer, you believe David Bowie is an astronaut.

—Ice-T

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the Government is not liable under the Federal Tort Claims Act for injuries to servicemen where injuries arise out of or are in the course of activity incident to service” (U.S. Supreme Court 1950). Federal...

—Diane Chamberlain

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But here in my hometown, history was like a fine dust that settled out on everything. There was nothing to counter it. The culture had been hardened by a religion suspect of joy, yet fascinated...

—Christina Carson

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Concerning non-violence: it is criminal to teach a man not to defend himself when he is the constant victim of brutal attacks.

—Malcolm X

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May 20, ’95 – Mississippi calls. She says, “All my working life I have done things to help black people. I can drive into the black part of town where no white person would dare...

—Leonard Michaels

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Everybody granted that if “Tom” were white and free it would be unquestionably right to punish him–it would be no loss to anybody; but to shut up a valuable slave for life–that was quite another...

—Mark Twain

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While America will always, I think, feel foreign to me, New York City is my home. This is where I can construct my own identity freely and reject labels imposed on me.

—Raquel Cepeda

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I believe in the freedom of expression, for to speak up against any form of oppression is Justice.But I cannot speak the same way for all when motives are to be measured.We must also accept...

—Princess Maleiha

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Any concept of one person being superior to another can lead to racism.

—Walter Lang

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It is when you start to have the interest of people in your heart that when you start to make a change.

—Peter Adejimi

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On my more difficult days, I’m not sure what’s more of a pain in my ass — being black or being a woman. I’m happy to be both of these things, but the world keeps...

—Roxane Gay

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Suspicion of Abuse gets to your toes before you see it in your face.

—Auliq Ice

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Slavery stands as an affront to human dignity.

—Allan Dare Pearce

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Raising Black children — female and male — in the mouth of a racist, sexist, suicidal dragon is perilous and chancy. If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they will probably not...

—Audre Lorde

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There’s a strange uniformity in the vocabulary European soccer fans use to hate black people. The same primate insults get hurled. Although they’ve gotten better over time, the English and Italians developed the tradition of...

—Franklin Foer

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The other thing you can do is write a strong personal essay which lets admissions people inside your life, your heart, and your world….Anyway, it can be hard to figure out what to write about,...

—Eugene Mirman

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His (Lincoln’s) patriotism was saved from idolatry by the overwhelming sense of the sovereignty of God.

—Elton Trueblood

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I am first of all a white man, and only then a socialist.

—Jack London

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Poor health was not just the result of random acts, bad luck, bad behavior or unfortunate genetics. Deliberate public policy decision about housing, education, parks and streets were the key drivers of racial differences in...

—David A. Ansell

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Eventually, some black thinkers believe, this “separation” may be the shortest route to an authentic communication at some future date when blacks and whites can enter into encounters in which they truly speak as equals...

—John Howard Griffen

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Unwed white girls who became pregnant in the postwar years were considered psychologically disturbed but treatable, whereas their black counterparts were presumed to be biologically hypersexual and deviant. Historian Rickie Solinger demonstrates that in the...

—Leora Tanenbaum

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I even felt a vicarious guilt, like a German meeting Jewish people in Poland who had never heard of the Holocaust, or that there were Jews in America, and trying to explain it to them....

—Neil Peart

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The worlds within and without the Veil of Color are changing, and changing rapidly, but not at the same rate, not in the same way; and this must produce a peculiar wrenching of the soul,...

—W.E.B. Du

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It’s the easiest thing in the world to be kind to someone, to show love, to forgive. You are born with this instinct – it should be your first reaction. NOT violence, anger and hatred!...

—Michelle Horst

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A coward’s gun is emptied when fear pulls the trigger, and hate is the ammunition of choice.

—T.F. Hodge

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Although I have always rejected this fear of the other, and the racism that it inevitably fuels, I have learned from experience that it is a deeply rooted need in the human psyche. at the...

—Susan Nathan

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From other stories that have been handed down to me I know that my people, like many others in the slave states, went to church with their slaves, were baptized with them, and presumably expected...

—Wendell Berry

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Conquest occurred through violence, and over-expolitation and oppression necessitate continued violence, so the army is present. There would be no contradiction in that, if terror reigned everywhere in the world, but the colonizer enjoys, in...

—Albert Memmi

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Racism is taught in our society, it is not automatic. It is learned behavior toward persons with dissimilar physical characteristics.

—Alex Haley

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Since the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, historians have become both more accurate and more honest—fractionally more brave, one might say—about that ‘other’ cleansing of the regions and peoples that were ground to...

—Christopher Hitchens

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Degradation and exploitation is found from the air above to the soil below.Those unfortunates caught in between are all enslaved by masters who proudly proclaim this just happens to be the “natural” order of things.

—christyl rivers

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Privilege is when you contribute to the oppression of others and then claim that you are the one being discriminated against.

—DaShanne Stokes

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The Internet has provided small communities for racism online, and people feel free to do it. Ultimately, there should be some consequence – if you promote your racism online then there should be a consequence.

—Issa Rae

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Black is bountiful. White is witful. Together they are beautiful.

—Indeewara Jayawardane

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…The straitjackets of race prejudice and discrimination do not wear only southern labels. The subtle, psychological technique of the North has approached in its ugliness and victimization of the Negro the outright terror and open...

—Martin Luther

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It was a roadblock, manned by an officer and several other soldiers. Sivaram and the trishaw driver were ordered out of the vehicle, and I was told to stay where I was. The soldiers held...

—Mark P.

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Today I’m on tell you bout a man from outer space.” She just loves hearing about peoples from outer space. Her favorite show on the tee-vee is My Favorite Martian, I pull on my antennae...

—Kathryn Stockett

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He seemed to hasten the retreat of departing light by his very presence; the setting sun dipped sharply, as though fleeing before our nigger; a black mist emanated from him; a subtle and dismal influence;...

—Joseph Conrad

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The act of claiming an identity can be transformational. It can provide healing and empowerment. It can weld solidarity within a community. And, perhaps most importantly, it can diminish power from an oppressor, a dominant...

—Simon Tam

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This solidarity business I used to talk about ain’t just–what do you youngsters call it?–theoretical. It means putting your body, your physical self, on the line, baby girl. Even when–especially when–it ain’t convenient.

—Thrity Umrigar

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Here was an ugly little girl asking for beauty….A little black girl who wanted to rise up out of the pit of her blackness and see the world with blue eyes. His outrage grew and...

—Toni Morrison

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So, in “Melting Pot” the children (about a third of whom were kids of color) sang the line, “America was the new world and Europe was the old,” in one stroke eradicating the narratives of...

—Tim Wise

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I consider myself an American African because we did not come by choice.

—Alafia Stewart

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