Racism Quotes - Page 10

• The evils of capitalism are as real as the evils of militarism and evils of racism.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Real, Evil, Militarism

  "Yes, the Martin Luther King Jr. Estate Approved That Ram Trucks Super Bowl Ad" by April Glaser, slate.com. February 4, 2018.

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• The fact that there's a more open discussion about everything from feminism to racism ... I look at my two boys ... this is their future I'm talking about. When I'll be long gone, it'll be them and their kids. I know that sometimes the darkest times are followed by the lightest. Sometimes bad things have to happen for good things to happen. At the very worst, we're having very open discussions, discussions about things we didn't even know f-king existed. I talk to my friends about it and they are absolutely shocked. They didn't even know.

  Michael Buble

  Kings, Kids, Boys

  "Michael Bublé leaves his comfort zone". Interview with Elio Iannacci, www.macleans.ca. October 6, 2016.

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• I have touched here on a problem that is masked if one speaks of racism. And that is the fact that the major differences between the established and outsiders group, which create tension and irritation, is not the form of the face or the skin color but the form of behavior: something learned. The form of behavior and feeling, of sentiment, is different in the immigrant groups from that of the established groups, and that may give rise to an enormous irritation.

  Norbert Elias

  Giving, Feelings, Skins

  Source: quod.lib.umich.edu

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• Racism cannot be cured solely by attacking some of the results it produces, like discrimination in housing or in education.

  Sargent Shriver

  Education, Racist, Discrimination

  Sargent Shriver (1964). “Point of the lance”

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• Millions of people of color still experience racism daily.

  William J. Clinton

  Color, People, Stills

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Racism should never have happened and so you don't get a cookie for reducing it.

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

  Cookies, Reducing, Should

  FaceBook post by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie from Jun 05, 2016

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• It's very seldom that we see the good of the South. There is a perception that Southerners are racists and everyone else in the nation is 'enlightened.' There is racism everywhere, and there is good everywhere.

  Octavia Spencer

  Perception, Racist, Enlightened

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• As an artist your first loyalty is to your art. Unless this is the case, you're going to be a second-rate artist. I don't mean there's never any overlap. You learn things in one area and bring them into another area. But giving a speech against racism is not the same as writing a novel. The object is very clear in the fight against racism; you have reasons why you're opposed to it. But when you're writing a novel, you don't want the reader to come out of it voting yes or no to some question. Life is more complicated than that. Reality simply consists of different points of view.

  Margaret Atwood

  Loyalty, Art, Writing

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• If trees can create art, if they can encircle the globe seven times in one year, if prisoners can grow plants and raise frogs, then perhaps there are other static entities that we hold inside ourselves, like grief, like addictions, like racism, that can also change.

  Nalini Nadkarni

  Art, Grief, Years

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• I consider racism to be a medical problem. Racists need serious medical and psychiatric help, because they are killing themselves and making others suffer along with them.

  Ishmael Reed

  Medical Problems, Suffering, Needs

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• Don't you know sugar is brown first? White folks couldn't stand the fact that something so sweet shared the same color as the people who cut the cane, slopped the hogs and picked the cotton. So they bleached it to resemble them, and now they done gone and fooled everybody. You included.

  Bernice L. McFadden

  Sweet, Cutting, Color

  Bernice L. McFadden (2001). “Sugar: A Novel”, p.39, Penguin

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• Our goal is to have a country that's not divided by race.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Race, Goal

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• You have to assess every situation that you're in and you have to decide, is this happening because I'm black? Is this happening because I'm a woman? Or is this happening because this is how it happens?

  Charlayne Hunter-Gault

  Black, Situation, Happens

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• For goodness sake, will they hear, will white people hear what we are trying to say? Please, all we are asking you to do is to recognize that we are humans, too.

  Desmond Tutu

  White, People, Trying

  The New York Times, January 3, 1985.

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• Together we can make a change of the world. Together we can help to stop racism. Together we can help to stop prejudice. We can help the world live without fear. It's our only hope, without hope we are lost.

  Michael Jackson

  Together We Can, Prejudice, World

  "Flashback: Michael Jackson's speech to Exeter City back in 2002" by Ronaldo Assis De Moreira, bleacherreport.com. June 26, 2009.

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• The first who attracts the eye, the first in enlightenment, in power and in happiness, is the white man, the European, man par excellence; below him appear the Negro and the Indian. These two unfortunate races have neither birth, nor face, nor language, nor mores in common; only their misfortunes look alike. Both occupy an equally inferior position in the country that they inhabit; both experience the effects of tyranny; and if their miseries are different, they can accuse the same author for them.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Country, Eye, Men

  Alexis de Tocqueville (2012). “Democracy in America”, p.303, University of Chicago Press

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• Anywhere in the world you go, you find racism, discrimination. Not just in the United States, or in Texas. It's very sad for me, but that's the way it is. I can't change the world by myself. I, being Hispanic, have also faced discrimination. But … the world keeps turning.

  Selena

  Texas, United States, World

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• You have to talk about the issue of race, but I can talk to white constituents about racism, if I at least acknowledge that life is not a crystal stair for them either.

  Keith Ellison

  Acknowledge

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• Racism is a human problem and a crime that is absolutely so ghastly that a person who is fighting racism is well within his rights to fight against it by any means necessary until it is eliminated.

  Malcolm X

  Mean, Fighting, Rights

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• It's almost like a renaissance of racism we have.

  Donna Brazile

  Renaissance

  "Gov. Chris Christie and DNC Chair Donna Brazile". "This Week", abcnews.go.com. August 28, 2016.

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• There is no easy way to create a world where men and women can live together... But if such a world is created in our lifetime, it will be done by rejecting the racism, materialism, and violence that has characterized Western civilization and especially by working toward a world of brotherhood, cooperation, and peace.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Men, Civilization, Brotherhood

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.: "I Have a Dream" and Other Great Writings”, p.158, Beacon Press

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• To a world sick with racism, get well soon.

  Janet Jackson

  Get Well Soon, Sick, World

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It's just a fact that if you're a young African-American man and you do the same thing as a young white man, you are more likely to be arrested, charged, convicted, and incarcerated. So we've got to address the systemic racism in our criminal justice system.

  Hillary Clinton

  Men, White Man, Justice

  "Transcript of the First Debate". www.nytimes.com. September 27, 2016.

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• Abortion and racism are both symptoms of a fundamental human error.

  Alveda King

  Errors, Abortion, Fundamentals

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• If racism can't be shown to be natural then it is the result of certain conditions, and we are impelled to eliminate those conditions.

  Howard Zinn

  Race, Natural, Results

  Howard Zinn (2015). “A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present”, p.31, Routledge

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