Racism Quotes - Page 12

• We're doing a bunch of shoots with kids about the election, about politics, about racism. I like to talk about heavy topics with kids because you find out what their parents are feeding them at home, and then you find out their quick reactions to things. It's so refreshing when kids are so honest.

  Chelsea Handler

  Home, Kids, Parent

  Source: variety.com

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• I don't wanna believe that racism exists, but the more I wish it away, the more I realize it's in our system.

  will.i.am

  Believe, Wish, Realizing

  Source: thesource.com

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• In America right now, the people who talk about race the most are people of color - and if we are going to move the needle forward, it's WHITE people who need to acknowledge their role in racism.

  Jodi Picoult

  Moving, White, America

  Source: nudge-book.com

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• I have become the poster child for calling all the Trump people racists, when, in fact, I don't think they're all racists, but they tolerated racism. And that's a problem.

  Van Jones

  Children, Thinking, People

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• I think that in his 39 short years of life, Malcolm X came to symbolize Black urban America, its culture, its politics, its militancy, its outrage against structural racism and at the end of his life, a broad internationalist vision of emancipatory power far better than any other single individual that he shared with DuBois and Paul Robeson, a pan-Africanist internationalist perspective.

  Manning Marable

  Thinking, America, Years

  Source: historynewsnetwork.org

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• We have a fair amount of racism.

  Trevor Noah

  Fairs, Amount

  "Trevor Noah Says He Grew Up 'In The Shadow Of A Giant' (His Mom)". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. November 22, 2016.

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• That's unfortunately common - to blame immigrants, to blame the African-Americans who are being helped by federal programs, to blame anyone available, to direct attention away from the roots of the distress which you're suffering. This combines with xenophobia, white supremacy, racism, misogyny, and other quite unpleasant phenomena which are far from being eradicated. All of this makes for a pretty dangerous brew. But economic issues are right in the center of it. And you can see this in the fact that so many former Obama voters now voted for Trump, or just didn't bother voting.

  Noam Chomsky

  Xenophobia, Roots, White

  Source: www.brooklynrail.org

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• The impact of racism has changed our look at ourselves because basically racism was meant to make us look unfaithfully at ourselves, and to not treasure our institutions.

  John Henrik Clarke

  Impact, Looks, Treasure

  Source: www.ourtimepress.com

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• That notion that we're in the post-racism, post-sexism world is so not true.

  Margaret Cho

  World, Sexism, Notion

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• There was no racism; there was no problem [in Mecca].

  Malcolm X

  Mecca, Problem, No Problem

  Source: nyx.uky.edu

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• Many of them who belong to these countries that were former colonial powers have racist attitudes, but their racist attitude is never displayed to the degree that the America's attitude of racism is displayed. Never.

  Malcolm X

  Country, Attitude, America

  Interview with Robert Penn Warren, whospeaks.library.vanderbilt.edu. June 2, 1964.

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• Writing about racism requires a directness that writing a love story does not.

  Vivek Shraya

  Writing, Doe, Stories

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• In my thirties, I have felt a greater urgency to make art that highlights what it feels like to be racialized, likely due to living in a country that obscures our racism with the idea of "multiculturalism."

  Vivek Shraya

  Country, Art, Ideas

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I didn't want to give the white reader an opportunity to think of racism as imaginary - a sentiment that is already a central barrier in addressing the problem.

  Vivek Shraya

  Opportunity, Thinking, White

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I am not sure that I know enough about the pre-history of 9/11 to agree or disagree. But I did think at the time that the [George W.] Bush administration took a number of cues from the Israeli government, not only by drawing on and intensifying anti-Arab racism, but by insisting that the attack on US government and financial buildings was an attack on "democracy" and by invoking "security at all costs" to wage war without a clear focus (why the Taliban?), and by suspending both constitutional rights and the regular protocol for congressional approval for declaring war.

  Judith Butler

  War, Thinking, Rights

  Interview with Cihan Aksan and Jon Bailes, www.counterpunch.org. October 11, 2013.

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• When people are not sure about their future, when their economies are suffering, when their personal fortunes are flagging, we have often in this country turned to nativism and xenophobia and racism and anti-immigrant sensibilities and passions to express our sense of outrage at what we can't control - and to forge a kind of fitful solidarity that turns out to be rather insular - we look inward and not outward.

  Michael Eric Dyson

  Country, Xenophobia, Passion

  "Michael Eric Dyson Wants White People to Step Up and Actually Do Something About Racism". Interview With Will Greenberg, www.motherjones.com. January 18, 2017.

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• The world and man are identical. This is why racism is the most stupid thing in the world.

  Paul Virilio

  Stupid, Men, World

  Source: ctheory.net

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• Mass incarceration is a policy that's kind of built up over the last four decades and it's destroyed families and communities, and something we need to change. And it's fallen disproportionally on black and brown communities, especially black communities, and it's kind of a manifestation of structural racism.

  John Legend

  Community, Black, Needs

  Source: www.washingtontimes.com

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• Martin Luther King wanted to be morally consistent and speak out against various things that were wrong, not just racism.

  Cornel West

  Kings, Speaks Out, Luther

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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• More people are aware of the consequences of hatred. People are aware. Therefore more people are engaged in fighting ... racism and so forth.

  Elie Wiesel

  Fighting, People, Hatred

  Source: dailynorthwestern.com

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

  Gloria Steinem

  Real, Made

  Source: www.washingtontimes.com

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• This unprecedented racism, bigotry and proto-fascist agenda that Donald Trump is trying to shove down America's throat has unleashed the resistance that will dethrone him.

  Tom Morello

  America, Trying, Agendas

  Source: www.billboard.com

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• You cannot be responsible for Jim Crow. You can not be responsible for racism. This is much more a problem for the person exercising racism.You are confronted with the reality of racism when you go in the streets, when the eyes of others come upon you. [James] Baldwin goes back with you to all the experiences you went through and gives a name to them, and explains why it is like this.

  Raoul Peck

  Eye, Exercise, Reality

  "James Baldwin Was Never Your Negro". Interview With Edwin Rios, www.motherjones.com. February 3, 2017.

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• In the story ["The Pyramid and the Ass"] there's this war against the so-called Buddhist Terrorists. As we find out, they're not really terrorists at all, just good folks trying to liberate people from technology and fight against an American government/corporation trying to coopt our souls. The inherent racism and Buddhist-phobia in the story plays into the present demonizing of Islam - and of our loss of knowledge about the great, spiritual history of the Sufis, for example, or the cultural heritage from the middle east.

  Alexander Weinstein

  Spiritual, Buddhist, War

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• I don't feel that I've been hampered by [ racism or discrimination], and the reason why is that we reach out to people on the basis of where everyone meets, and try to build common cause on that basis. Because of that, I think we've cut through some of the issues that normally divide people.

  Keith Ellison

  Cutting, Thinking, Issues

  Source: harvardpolitics.com

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