Black Racism Quotes - Page 2

• Once you begin to explain or excuse all events on racial grounds, you begin to indulge in the perilous mythology of race.

  James Earl Jones

  Indulge In, Race, Events

  James Earl Jones, Penelope Niven (1993). “James Earl Jones: Voices and Silences”, Scribner Book Company

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• The whites were really brutishly ignorant, blitheringly, so they killed people sometimes - just came into the African-American community and maimed people because they didn't agree with God's choice for the colors of the people's skin.

  Maya Angelou

  Color, Racism, People

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• I also have been called that terrible "N" word straight to my face and not known what to do about it because it was just in like 1993 that someone called me that.

  Halle Berry

  Racism, Black, Faces

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• We have two evils to fight, capitalism and racism. We must destroy both racism and capitalism.

  Huey Newton

  Fighting, Two, Evil

  Huey P. Newton, Toni Morrison, Elaine Brown (2009). “To die for the people: the writings of Huey P. Newton”, City Lights Publishers

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• Racism is not an excuse to not do the best you can.

  Arthur Ashe

  Racism, Black History, African American

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• Ending racial discrimination in jury selection can be accomplished only by eliminating peremptory challenges entirely.

  Thurgood Marshall

  Challenges, Discrimination, Accomplished

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• In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.

  Toni Morrison

  Inspirational, Country, Mean

  The Guardian, January 29, 1992.

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• The policemen or soldiers are only a gun in the establishments hand. They make the racist secure in his racism.

  Huey Newton

  Gun, Hands, Racism

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• People can tell if you don't like 'em. African Americans can tell we're not welcome in the Republican Party no matter how many times they say we are. All the signals that it's a party that tolerates anti-black racism is very clear.

  Van Jones

  Party, Racism, People

  Source: pen.org

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• 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.

  Angela Davis

  Racism, Black, Firsts

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