Institutional Racism Quotes

• First there was racism. Then liberals created institutional racism and coded racism. You can only hear it with a dog whistle.

  Evan Sayet

  Dog, Racism, Racist

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• What I've always said is that I'm opposed to institutional racism, and I would've, had I've been alive at the time, I think, had the courage to march with Martin Luther King to overturn institutional racism, and I see no place in our society for institutional racism.

  Rand Paul

  Courage, Kings, Thinking

  "Rand Paul Says He Has A Tea Party 'Mandate'". Interview with Robert Siegel, www.npr.org. May 19, 2010.

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• In America there is institutional racism that we all inherit and participate in, like breathing the air in this room - and we have to become sensitive to it.

  Henry Louis Gates

  Air, Breathing, America

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• You don't fight racism with racism, the best way to fight racism is with solidarity.

  Bobby Seale

  Fighting, Racism, Brotherhood

  "Black Panther Co-Founder Bobby Seale condemns Boston terrorism in exclusive interview". Interview with Alan Carlos Hernandez, www.heralddeparis.com. April 22, 2013.

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• Things like racism are institutionalized. You might not know any bigots. You feel like "well I don't hate black people so I'm not a racist," but you benefit from racism. Just by the merit, the color of your skin. The opportunities that you have, you're privileged in ways that you might not even realize because you haven't been deprived of certain things. We need to talk about these things in order for them to change.

  Dave Chappelle

  Hate, Opportunity, Order

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• One of the ongoing crises in America is institutional racism. We have a very broken criminal justice system. We live in a country where there are more people in jail than any other country on Earth. There are some 2.2 million people currently incarcerated and they are disproportionally African American and Hispanic. Unarmed African Americans have been abused and sometimes killed while in police custody. Clearly these are issues that must be dealt with and changed.

  Bernie Sanders

  Country, America, Jail

  Source: www.ebony.com

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• Country must confront what he called institutional racism. [We should] create a country which provides economic, social and environmental justice for all.

  Bernie Sanders

  Country, Justice For All, Racism

  Source: www.npr.org

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• When one in three Black men are in prison, those larger systemic injustices become a part of what it means to love our neighbor as ourself. We care about dismantling institutional racism. That begins in relationships when you see injustice happen.

  Shane Claiborne

  Mean, Men, Racism

  "Interview with Shane Claiborne: Embracing the Margins". Interview with Matt Dabbs, wineskins.org. November 17, 2015.

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• It is this third consequence that has been elaborated in greatest detail and has formed one of the most significant pillars of historical capitalism, institutional racism.

  Immanuel Wallerstein

  Racism, Historical, Details

  Immanuel Maurice Wallerstein (1995). “Capistalist Civilisation”, p.78, Verso

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• Indians in America are yet to be considered human beings, even though the Pope issued a papal bull in 1898 that declared us to be human beings. But to show you the institutional racism, the sports teams are still using the Indians as mascots.

  Russell Means

  Sports, Team, America

  Source: progressive.org

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• You should be able to criticize civil servants for what you think is wrongdoing without being painted as a cop-hater. I don't feel the police are all corrupt, however I do feel they are suffering from institutional racism and there needs to be a top-to-bottom examination of the way they practice and the way they criminalize young black and brown males. The fact that they seem to have backed off from it seems to suggest they realize they overreacted on me and it looks bad.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Thinking, Practice, Racism

  "Q&A: Tarantino on the battles behind 'The Hateful Eight'". Associated Press Interview, www.dailymail.co.uk. December 22, 2015.

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• There was no mistake in us making abortion legal and available on demand. That was what we call progress. Just like it was no mistake that we abolished institutional racism in this country around the same time. The easy thing to do is lay low, but then are we who we say we are? Do we actually stand for anything, if what we do stand for is under attack and we say nothing? There is nothing to be ashamed of here except to allow a radical and recessive group of people to bully and intimidate our mothers and sisters and daughters for exercising their right of choice.

  Mark Ruffalo

  Daughter, Mother, Country

  "Mark Ruffalo defends reproductive rights, talks about his mother’s illegal" by Katie Mcdonough, www.salon.com. August 19, 2013.

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• I'm in favor of everything with regards to ending institutional racism.

  Rand Paul

  Racism, Favors, Regard

  "Rand Paul Says He Has A Tea Party 'Mandate'". "All Things Considered" with Robert Siegel, www.npr.org. May 19, 2010.

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• For most Black people there is still poverty and desperation. The Ghettos still exist, and the proportion of Blacks in prison is still much greater than Whites. Today, there is less overt racism, but the economic injustices create an "institutional racism" which exists even while more Blacks are in high places, such as Condoleeza Rice in Bush's Administration and Obama running for President.

  Howard Zinn

  Running, Ghetto, People

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• [The Democratic Party]it's a party with an incredible century-and-a-half history of institutional racism.

  Sean Hannity

  Party, Racism, Half

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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