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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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The white man’s happiness cannot be purchased by the black man’s misery.

—Frederick Douglass

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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 and religious bigotry are two essential pieces of baggage mankind carries as it moves from one century to the next.

—R. N.

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It’s often said that those who are unduly bothered by gays are latent homosexuals. Isn’t it possible that people obsessed with racism are themselves racist.

—Ann Coulter

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In both cases, it is the prejudice, not the condition, that does the harm. It may be, as some would have it, that blacks are inherently inferior to whites or that homosexuals are all, by...

—Andrew Tobias

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…racist thought and action says far more about the person they come from than the person they are directed at.

—Chris Crutcher

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I’ve always looked at America like a foster mother doing it only for the check. At any minute, I just knew she’d be ready to give up on me.

—Darnell Lamont

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The coalition emerges out of your recognition that it’s fucked up for you, in the same way that we’ve already recognized that it’s fucked up for us. I don’t need your help. I just need...

—Fred Moten

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Second-rate parts of the world for second-rate minds.

—David Halberstam

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Then Mr. Underwood’s meaning became clear: Atticus had used every tool available to free men to save Tom Robinson, but in the secret courts of men’s hearts Atticus had no case.

—Harper Lee

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This week, Zuma was quoted as saying, ‘When the British came to our country, they said everything we are doing was barbaric, was wrong, inferior in whatever way.’ But the serious critique of Zuma is...

—Mark Gevisser

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Antisemitism is unique among religious hatreds. It is a racist conspiracy theory fashioned for the needs of messianic and brutal rulers, as dictators from the Tsars to the Islamists via the Nazis have shown. Many...

—Nick Cohen

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We want to believe something very similar about racism and accusations of racism. If we can prove that a particular allegation of racism is unfounded or untrue, we can all breathe a collective sigh of...

—John L. Jackson Jr.

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You blame me and my country for your losses Miss Kimball. And I blame you and your country. But you and I are people, not countries. Did you kill my wife? My child? Would you...

—Lynn Austin

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Let’s make progress justice a process, not an afterthought

—Simon S.

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Looks like somebody’s got jungle fever.”That’s not even the right kind of racist.

—Rainbow Rowell

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Astrology is a cousin of racism.

—Penn Jillette

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What used to be edgy (divorces) has become mainstream and what used to be mainstream (racism and sexism) has become shocking.

—Sara Sheridan

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The world does not need white people to civilize others. The real White People’s Burden is to civilize ourselves.

—Robert Jensen

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A vision of cultural homogeneity that seeks to deflect attention away from or even excuse the oppressive, dehumanizing impact of white supremacy on the lives of black people by suggesting black people are racist too...

—Bell Hooks

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I was reading along in the beginning thinking, okay, a woman wrote this, there’s her picture, she’s a white lady, the narrator’s a white lady. And then suddenly she says something and you realize she’s...

—Barbara Browning

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I shall not vote for Sen. Obama and it will not be because he—like me and like all of us—carries African genes. And I shall not be voting for Mrs. Clinton, who has the gall...

—Christopher Hitchens

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As I begin to recognise that the Negro is the symbol of sin, I catch myself hating the Negro. But then I recognise that I am a Negro. There are two ways out of this...

—Frantz Fanon

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Words not only reflect a person’s thoughts and beliefs, but, through their use, can shape a person’s values, beliefs, and actions, making them prejudiced without them even realizing it. That means it’s not just the...

—DaShanne Stokes

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Oh Sverige, Sverige du Gamla och FriaVarför dödar dina söner mig?

—Don Mattera

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To change undesirable behaviors we see in the world, we must change the thinking that leads to those behaviors.

—Donald L.

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Sometimes the old ways will not give you up”…Chief–Lobi Tribe

—James M. Robinson

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I believe it’s incredibly important to write against [racial] stereotypes. If we give in and make sure that all black women characters are asexual, gentle, and kind we wind up with another set of stereotypes.

—Justine Larbalestier

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Liberty is no less a blessing because oppression has so long darkened the mind that it can not appreciate it.

—Lucretia Mott

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To give preference to the life of a being simply because that being is a member of our species would put us in the same position as racists who give preference to those who are...

—Peter Singer

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us.” We could do that. Or we can choose to be a nation that shames and blames its most vulnerable, affixes badges of dishonor upon them at young ages, and then relegates them to a...

—Michelle Alexander

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Peonage, Anti-Lynch Bill, poll tax, these are our issues. They are the most controversial issues in American life, and some of us will have to die for them! Yes, we want to join with the...

—Ralph Ellison

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That anybody white could take your whole self for anything that came to mind. Not just work, kill, or maim you, but dirty you so bad you forgot who you were and couldn’t think it...

—Toni Morrison

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Ignorance of how we are shaped racially is the first sign of privilege. In other words. It is a privilege to ignore the consequences of race in America.

—Tim Wise

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A centre of racism is a point of pain, a point of no justice and a house of oppression.

—Auliq Ice

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Racism is a doctrine of, by and for brutes.

—Ayn Rand

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Every actual democracy rests on the principle that not only are equals equal but unequals will not be treated equally. Democracy requires, therefore, first homogeneity and second—if the need arises elimination or eradication of heterogeneity.

—Carl Schmitt

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It’s very difficult not to come across as a white supremacist when there are so many black inferiorists around.

—David Bullard

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The Indians’ insistence on clinging to their customs had to be the work of Satan there was no other explanation which is why the friars went out to hunt down and lasso the deserters and...

—Isabel Allende

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Oddly, I had never thought of myself as a feminist. I had been denounced by certain radical feminist collectives as a ‘lackey’ for men. That charge was based on my having written and sung two...

—Elaine Brown

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One would never defeat one’s circumstances by working and saving one’s pennies; one would never, by working, acquire that many pennies, and, besides, the social treatment accorded even the most successful Negroes proved that one...

—James Baldwin

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I am convinced that imprisonment is a way of pretending to solve the problem of crime. It does nothing for the victims of crime, but perpetuates the idea of retribution, thus maintaining the endless cycle...

—Howard Zinn

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There’s such a big difference between being dead and alive, I told myself, the greatest gift that anyone can give anyone else is life. And the greatest sin a person can do to another is...

—James McBride

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At the level of high culture with which this book is concerned, active bigotry is probably fairly rare. It is also hardly ever necessary, since the social context is so far from neutral. To act...

—Joanna Russ

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Every Republican’s voted for it. Look at what they value and look at their budget and what they’re proposing. Romney wants to let the – he said in the first 100 days he’s going to...

—Joe Biden

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But the worst I think is the racism,

—Simon Jenkins

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Familiar words for dead black boys portrayed as complicit in their own demise. Michael Donald’s body had been hanged on a Mobile street, and the police were doing the same thing to his name.

—Ravi Howard

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It’s not that racism doesn’t exist. Lots of people in New York, and elsewhere, hate because of color and gender, religion and national origin. It’s just that I rarely worry about those things because there’s...

—Walter Mosley

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