Racism Quotes - Page 16

• Whether that's racism, whether it's bigotry, whether it's gender inequality - whatever it is, it's all stemming from "me against you." And, like, how do you stop it? I just want to do my little part in helping try to stop it.

  Draymond Green

  Trying, Helping, Gender

  Source: bleacherreport.com

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• I try to look at it like an angry optimist. In other words, I'm not happy with the state of affairs that we have. The rise of nationalism under the guise of patriotism is so effed up, and underneath this banner of "patriotism" is the worst of nationalist rhetoric: racism, xenophobia, sexism, pitting communities against each other, implicitly inciting race wars and stuff like that. So that's the angry part of it, but I'm incredibly optimistic about the potential to redefine what it means to be a "patriotic American" .

  Hasan Minhaj

  War, Optimistic, Mean

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• Many European countries are fascinated with minorities from the United States. They still see this country as a world power and they covet that power...I was approached by a professor once at the Sorbonne in Paris and asked about racism in this country, and when I reflected on racism on the streets of Paris - you know, I'd be considered an Arab there -well, she didn't want to address that...It just goes to show it was easier for Europeans to study racism in the United States than it is from within the belly of the beast.

  Ana Castillo

  Country, World, Study

  Source: www.english.illinois.edu

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• I experienced racism in different settings: I was followed in stores, in cars. The way you experience racism depends on how you deal with it. My memories of Goodeve are good ones.

  Perry Bellegarde

  Memories, Car, Different

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• If people in Indonesia look 'different', they are afraid. Racist insults fly if someone does not look like part of the majority. Indonesia is one of the most racist countries on earth, and it has proven it during several of the genocides that have taken place here. But there is no perception, no clue, and no understanding of what racism actually is. And there is zero self-criticism.

  Andre Vltchek

  Country, Taken, People

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• Music documentaries are hard to tell, but I think they're an amazing vehicle to look at racism, our attitude to sex, the way we judge drugs. There's the ability to get a big audience because of these incredible, iconic, charismatic people. You can look at a number of issues - the challenge is to make sure you choose something that has all those issues. Popular music is like a mirror of culture, of who we are.

  Nick Broomfield

  Attitude, Thinking, Judging

  Source: thequietus.com

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• Any racism or barriers that may be put up, you get a tremendous sense of resistance. The more you push me, the greater I am. You can't hold me down. And the church helped me do that. My family helped that. The whole issue of struggle is critical in my life. Resistance, finding ways to resist. That does not mean you do somebody in to get it. No, it means finding ways to be human in what you do, but making sure that you get it done.

  Cecil Williams

  Struggle, Mean, Church

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• Too many of us now tend to worship self indulgence and consumption.

  Jimmy Carter

  Self, Gay Marriage, Democracy

  Energy and the National Goals - A Crisis of Confidence, delivered 15 July, 1979

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• I still think people do have racial hang-ups, but I think one of the reasons I can joke about it is people are shedding those racial hatreds.

  Dave Chappelle

  Thinking, People, Hatred

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

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• If a man like Malcolm X could change and repudiate racism, if I myself and other former Muslims can change, if young whites can change, then there is hope for America.

  Eldridge Cleaver

  Change, Men, America

  ELDRIDGE CLEAVER (1968). “SOUL ON ICE”

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• If only Al Sharpton were around, Lincoln would have known he was a victim of racism.

  Ann Coulter

  Racist, Als, Victim

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• As soon as my trial was over, we tried to use the energy that had developed around my case to create another organization, which we called the National Alliance against Racist and Political Repression.

  Angela Davis

  Organization, Political, Alliances

  "Frontline", www.pbs.org. 1997.

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• Today, nostalgia is almost as unacceptable as racism.

  Terry Eagleton

  Today, Nostalgia

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• We are never racist against somebody who is very far away. I don't know any racism against the Eskimos. To have a racist feeling, there must be an other who is slightly different from us - but is living close to us.

  Umberto Eco

  Feelings, Racist, Different

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• The Mormon mission to Africa, as to other dark-skinned parts of the world, was for a long time hobbled by the racism of the movement's scripture.

  James Fenton

  Dark, Long, Movement

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• I'm a real person, and I'm angry. I'm trying to use this celebrity thing to get people some help. AIDS, poverty, racism - I want to be one of the hands that helps stop all that. I'll put it on my shoulders. I'll charge it to my account.

  Jamie Foxx

  Real, Hands, People

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

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• Just as we reject racism, sexism, ageism, and heterosexism, we reject speciesism. The species of a sentient being is no more reason to deny the protection of this basic right than race, sex, age, or sexual orientation is a reason to deny membership in the human moral community to other humans.

  Gary L. Francione

  Sex, Race, Community

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• Let's be very honest about what this is about. It's not about bashing Democrats, it's not about taxes, they have no idea what the Boston tea party was about, they don't know their history at all. This is about hating a black man in the White House. This is racism straight up.

  Janeane Garofalo

  Hate, Party, Men

  "Garofalo: Tea Party Goers Are Racists Who Hate Black President". "Countdown" with Keith Olbermann, www.newsbusters.org. April 16, 2009.

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• I know no national boundary where the Negro is concerned. The whole world is my province until Africa is free.

  Marcus Garvey

  Freedom, World, Boundaries

  Marcus Garvey (2012). “Selected Writings and Speeches of Marcus Garvey”, p.10, Courier Corporation

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• I believe in the law. I think we have a great system of justice. But I do think that system of justice has been corrupted by racism and classism. I think it's difficult for 'poor people' - poor white people, brown people - to be treated fairly before the law in the same way that upper-class people are.

  Henry Louis Gates

  Believe, Thinking, Law

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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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• I think that the roots of racism have always been economic, and I think people are desperate and scared. And when you're desperate and scared you scapegoat people. It exacerbates latent tendencies toward - well, toward racism or homophobia or anti-Semitism.

  Henry Louis Gates

  Thinking, Roots, People

  "Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. March 19, 2008.

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• The soldiers never explained to the government when an Indian was wronged, but reported the misdeeds of the Indians.

  Geronimo

  Government, Soldier, Apaches

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• You know, modern liberals are just, I think frankly, totally off the deep end... their only answer is to yell racism and hide.

  Newt Gingrich

  Thinking, Answers, Modern

  "Gingrich on His Campaign Surge and Racial Politics". "NBC Today Show" with Ann Curry, archives.nbclearn.com. January 19, 2012.

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• Imagine a judicial nominee said 'my experience as a white man makes me better than a Latina woman.' Wouldn't they have to withdraw? New racism is no better than old racism.

  Newt Gingrich

  Men, White, Racist

  FaceBook post by Newt Gingrich from May 27, 2009

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