Gloria Steinem Quotes About Racism

Quotes about: Racism

• We need to raise our sons more like our daughters. We need to relieve them of this burden of the idea that to be masculine they have to be superior, which is what they get addicted to, and why both racism and sexism are crimes that I call superiority crimes.

  Gloria Steinem

  Daughter, Son, Ideas

  Source: www.elle.com

• Work is valued by the social value of the worker.

  Gloria Steinem

  Social Values, Racism, Reconstruction

  Gloria Steinem (2012). “Moving Beyond Words: Essays on Age, Rage, Sex, Power, Money, Muscles: Breaking the Boundaries of Gender”, p.374, Open Road Media

• I definitely think men can be leaders. I see an analogy in the case of what helped me think about racism, which was to find parallels with sexism. In other words, I don't think I was such a great ally until I got mad on my own behalf.

  Gloria Steinem

  Men, Thinking, Racism

  Interview with Jennifer Bardi, thehumanist.com. August 14, 2012.

• ... patriarchy creates megapatterns that affect us all--even as we forge different individual choices within them--just as do themegapatterns of nationalism or racism.

  Gloria Steinem

  Individual Choice, Racism, Choices

• Racism is not real, it's made up, it's cruel, it can be stopped.

  Gloria Steinem

  Real, Racism, Made

  Source: www.washingtontimes.com

• anything being perceived as being superior takes the noun. And everything that isn't, that's judged to be inferior, requires an adjective. So there are black novelists and novelists. There are women physicians and physicians. Male nurses and nurses.

  Gloria Steinem

  Nurse, Racism, Black

• There is bias and sexism everywhere, just like there are problems of racism and homophobia stemming from the whole notion that we're arranged in a hierarchy, that we're ranked rather than linked.

  Gloria Steinem

  Racism, Hierarchy, Discrimination

  "The Humanist Interview with Gloria Steinem". Interview with Jennifer Bardi, thehumanist.com. August 14, 2012.

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