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• Racism tears down your insides so that no matter what you achieve, you're not quite up to snuff.

  Alvin Ailey

  Tears, Racist, Matter

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• One of the worst things about racism is what it does to young people.

  Alvin Ailey

  People, Doe, Racist

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• Racism, prejudice and discrimination are an inexplicable collective stupidity

  Anderson Silva

  Mma, Stupidity, Prejudice

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• The way we have to measure progress is not, "Is there ever going to be an incident of racism in the country?" It's, "How does the majority of our country respond?"

  Barack Obama

  Country, Progress, Majority

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• The War on Drugs, cloaked in race-neutral language, offered whites opposed to racial reform a unique opportunity to express their hostility toward blacks and black progress, without being exposed to the charge of racism.

  Michelle Alexander

  War, Unique, Opportunity

  Michelle Alexander (2013). “The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness”, p.54, The New Press

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• Sizeism = like racism, only against people who aren't a size two or four.

  Lauren Barnholdt

  Two, People, Four

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• I think it's cultural racism more than anything, which dovetails with actual racism, but the cultural racism to me is even more shocking.

  Hilton Als

  Thinking, Shocking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Solving the population problem is not going to solve the problems of racism, of sexism, of religious intolerance, of war, of gross economic inequality. But if you don't solve the population problem, you're not going to solve any of those problems. Whatever problem you're interested in, you're not going to solve it unless you also solve the population problem. Whatever your cause, it's a lost cause without population control.

  Paul R. Ehrlich

  Religious, War, Population Problem

  "Paul Ehrlich and the Population Bomb". PBS video produced by David Suzuki,

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• A rare book at once of great importance and wonderful to read.... Gould presents a fascinating historical study of scientific racism, tracing it through monogeny and polygeny, phrenology , recapitulation, and hereditarian IQ theory. He stops at each point to illustrate both the logical inconsistencies of the theories and the prejudicially motivated, albeit unintentional, misuse of data in each case.... A major addition to the scientific literature.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Book, Data, Historical

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• There is only one remedy for ignorance and thoughtlessness, and that is literacy. Millions and millions of children would today stand in no need of sex education or consumer education or anti-racism education or any of those fake educations, if they had had in the first place 'an' education.

  Richard Mitchell

  Education, Sex, Children

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• Joseph Conrad was a thoroughgoing racist. That this simple truth is glossed over in criticisms of his work is due to the fact that white racism against Africa is such a normal way of thinking that its manifestations go completely unremarked.

  Chinua Achebe

  Simple, Thinking, White

  Chinua Achebe (2012). “Hopes and Impediments: Selected Essays”, p.26, Anchor

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• I do believe that part of us ending racism is us seeing each other's humanity and learning to love each other, even if we look different or worship differently or live differently.

  John Legend

  Believe, Humanity, Different

  "John Legend Talks ‘Blurred Lines’ Case & Common’s Controversial Remarks On Ending Racism". Interview With Mesfin Fekadu, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 24, 2015.

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• I don't think racism can be eliminated in my lifetime ... or my children's or grandchildren's. But I think it's something we have to strive for. I'm going to keep working toward that day coming.

  Spike Lee

  Children, Thinking, Lifetime

  Spike Lee, Cynthia Fuchs (2002). “Spike Lee: Interviews”, p.34, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• I don't think my films are going to get rid of racism or prejudice. I think the best thing my films can do is provoke discussion.

  Spike Lee

  Thinking, Prejudice, Film

  Spike Lee, Cynthia Fuchs (2002). “Spike Lee: Interviews”, p.26, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Sex and racism have always been tied together. Look at the thousands of black men who got lynched and castrated. The reason the Klan came into being was to protect white southern women.

  Spike Lee

  Sex, Men, White

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• Racism serves as the cutting edge of the most reactionary movements. An ideology that starts by declaring one human being inferior to another is the slope whose end is at Auschwitz.

  Ken Livingstone

  Cutting, Movement, Ends

  "This Is About Israel, Not Anti-Semitism". www.theguardian.com. March 04, 2005.

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• I am convinced that imprisonment is a way of pretending to solve the problem of crime. It does nothing for the victims of crime, but perpetuates the idea of retribution, thus maintaining the endless cycle of violence in our culture. It is a cruel and useless substitute for the elimination of those conditions--poverty, unemployment, homelessness, desperation, racism, greed--which are at the root of most punished crime. The crimes of the rich and powerful go mostly unpunished.

  Howard Zinn

  Powerful, Ideas, Roots

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• We have to be honest, we have to be truthful and speak to the one dirty secret in American life, and that is racism.

  Henry Cisneros

  Dirty, Secret, Honest

  1993 In US News and World Report, 19 Apr.

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• Americans love to talk about the Constitution and how it protects the rights of every citizen and promises freedom to every citizen, but it's also a country based on racism and they don't talk about that too much and every time there's a film which deals with it there's certain parts of the country that feel uncomfortable.

  Denzel Washington

  Country, Rights, Promise

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• I think that if there can be considered racism it's to do with the lack of opportunities for writers and producers and the people behind the camera.

  Denzel Washington

  Opportunity, Thinking, People

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• I think that America certainly has racism, I think that any industrialized country does. But when you see how many million fans Barack Obama has who are not black, it would lead one to the conclusion that millions of Americans are in fact not burdened by the albatross of racism.

  Henry Rollins

  Country, Thinking, America

  "Henry Rollins - Recountdown Tour 2008 Update". Live Q&As, www.washingtonpost.com. October 28, 2008.

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• As we search as a nation for constructive ways to challenge racism and white supremacy, it is absolutely essential that progressive female voices gain a hearing.

  Bell Hooks

  Voice, White, Challenges

  "Killing Rage: Ending Racism". Book by Bell Hooks, September 15, 1995.

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• A lot of different races and nationalities play football, so it is a good way to try and stop racism.

  Thierry Henry

  Football, Race, Play

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• I would not be standing here today if my skin were white or my religion were Presbyterian. I am here today only because my skin is yellow and my religion is Unification Church. The ugliest things in this beautiful country of America are religious bigotry and racism.

  Sun Myung Moon

  Beautiful, Country, Religious

  U.S. v. Sun Myung Moon 718 F.2d (1210), 1983.

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• Most liberal-minded folk would like to think that since they are not hostile to people of a different race, racism is a disease of the uneducated, unenlightened and socially backward - football hooligans, British National Party supporters, policemen. You could call this the Bad Guy Theory. But the Bad Guy Theory does not explain why Indian-heritage children do nearly twice as well as Pakistani-heritage children at GCSE.

  Trevor Phillips

  Football, Children, Party

  The Times, October 29, 2004.

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