Racism Quotes - Page 11

• We aren't engaged in any negative protest and in any negative arguments with anybody. We are saying that we are determined to be men. We are determined to be people. We are saying that we are God's children. And that we don't have to live like we are forced to live.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Determination, Children, Men

  I've Been to the Mountaintop, delivered 3 April 1968, Mason Temple (Church of God in Christ Headquarters), Memphis, Tennessee

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• A part of being black in America and, you know, I presume being any minority, is constantly being told that we're being too aware of race somehow, we're obsessed with it or we're seeing racism where there just isn't racism.

  Jordan Peele

  Race, America, Black

  Source: www.npr.org

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• We do not put enough emphasis on early childhood years. We neglect children in this society; as a society we're guilty of child neglect. If we could eliminate the vestiges of racism, if we could develop a more powerful agenda for child care, child development, and a more powerful education system, we could prevent a lot of the incapacities which in turn tend to generate structural unemployment.

  Bruce Babbitt

  Children, Powerful, Childhood

  Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org

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• 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.

  Thomas Sowell

  Media, Might, Picks

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• It is sad to witness the persistence in our society of the racism and xenophobia that seems to be a permanent part of our political culture. It is shameful to see politicians exploiting these human weaknesses in order to gain political power. It is most depressing of all to contemplate a future in which politicians who do this will continue to have influence over people's lives.

  Allen W. Wood

  Depressing, Xenophobia, Persistence

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• Of course, hate speech and racism have no place on Facebook

  Mark Zuckerberg

  Hate, Speech, Courses

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• I happen to be colorblind. Racism is not my motto. One day, I strongly expect every color to love as one family.

  Michael Jackson

  Color, One Day, Motto

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• The historical legacies of resistance to racism, militarism, privatization and panoptical surveillance have long been forgotten and made invisible in the current assumption that Americans now live in a democratic, post-racial society.

  Henry Giroux

  Long, Historical, Legacy

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• I mean, we're not talking about simply racism, we're taking about white supremacy.

  Henry Giroux

  Mean, Talking, White

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Young black men are guilty of criminal behavior not because of the alleged crimes they might commit but because they are the product of a collective imagination paralyzed by the racism of a white supremacist culture they can only view them as a dangerous nightmare.

  Henry Giroux

  Men, Views, White

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Poor minorities live in a new age of Jim Crow, one in which the ravages of segregation, racism, poverty and dashed hopes are amplified by the forces of privatization, financialization, militarization and criminalization, fashioning a new architecture of punishment, massive human suffering and authoritarianism.

  Henry Giroux

  Punishment, Crow, Suffering

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• The infamy of n - - is - it's a word that has been used to terrorize people, to put people down. But it has also been used in other ways. It's also been used as a way of putting a mirror up to racism.

  Randall Kennedy

  Mirrors, People, Way

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Part of the reason might be that I was born in 1954 and I look upon my youth with great fondness, like many old men. And, though my work doesn't focus much on good things, I see that period as America's heyday. True, we had many problems, like racism and Vietnam, but we still weren't quite as nuts as we seem to be now.

  Donald Ray Pollock

  Men, Nuts, America

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I was teasing my brother that he was penniless, homeless, jobless. Right now in his life, racism isn't the central highlighting force: it's the world of work and economics. It doesn't mean that he isn't influenced by racism, but when he wakes up in the morning the thing that's driving his world is really issues of class, economics and power as they articulate themselves.

  Bell Hooks

  Morning, Brother, Mean

  Source: nefac.net

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• Inevitably it's going to cause some terrible misogynist backlash, and I assume we'll look forward to eight years of jaw-droppingly sexist statements - the way we listened to eight years of racism around the presidency. It will be an argument before it's a conversation. But at least it's being had.

  Joss Whedon

  Eight, Years, Looks

  "Joss Whedon Explains Why Donald Trump Is America’s Scariest Big Bad". Interview With Patrick Caldwell, www.motherjones.com. November 1, 2016.

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• People huddle together in doctrinaire herds, and the same jackasses who, without the slightest risk, now scream against racism are the same conformist personality types who would have carried torches in lynch mobs a century ago.

  Jim Goad

  People, Personality, Risk

  Source: love-and-pop.com

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• I don't think it's entirely paranoid to suspect that one day, you won't be able to so much as question the primary tenets of anti-racism without going to jail.

  Jim Goad

  Thinking, Jail, One Day

  Source: love-and-pop.com

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• If you read Martin Luther King speeches and sermons in the last two years of his life - you might want to - –when I read these to my students, they think it's Malcom X because it's so radical. And if you read nothing else - if your viewers read nothing else - then the April 4, 1967, speech at Riverside Church called "Beyond Vietnam," that's where he says the greatest purveyor of violence on earth is my country. And he connects the triplets of evil, racism, militarism, and materialism, and that connection makes him a radical.

  Bill Ayers

  Country, Kings, Thinking

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• I intend to work with President [Donald] Trump on those issues where he will, in fact, work for the middle class and working families in this country. I will vigorously oppose him if he appeals to racism or sexism.

  Rudy Giuliani

  Country, Issues, Class

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• Racism is worse than ever. Violence is worse than ever. The economy's worse than ever. Unemployment's worse than ever. And it's Democrats that have been running the show, with the first African-American president at the top of the heap, and it didn't get any better?

  Rush Limbaugh

  Running, African American, President

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• There is a bunch of racism in America, and sadly, most of it's on the left side of the aisle.

  Rush Limbaugh

  America, Sides, Bunch

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Rescind the appointment of [Steve] Bannon. We will not be involved in the expansion of bigotry, of racism, sexism, homophobia.

  Bernie Sanders

  Expansion, Sexism, Appointments

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• In America, we have struggled too much, too long as a country trying to overcome racism and sexism and homophobia. We cannot go back to a more discriminatory society.

  Bernie Sanders

  Country, America, Long

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Whites who otherwise were able to tolerate a black president, Obama, because on certain issues he appealed to them on substance, Trump was able to reach down into some of those same people and pull out this racism inside them.

  Allan Nairn

  Issues, People, Black

  Source: www.democracynow.org

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• We have to face up to systemic racism. We see it in jobs, we see it in education, we see it in housing. But let's be really clear; it's a big part of what we're facing in the criminal justice system.

  Hillary Clinton

  Jobs, Justice, Criminals

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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