Racism Quotes - Page 24

• African Americans know about racism, but I don't think we really know the causes. I decided it's first of all a family problem.

  Bebe Moore Campbell

  Thinking, African American, Firsts

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• Precisely because white denial has long trumped claims of racism, people of color tend to underreport their experiences with racial bias rather than exaggerate them.

  Tim Wise

  Color, White, Long

  Tim Wise (2008). “Speaking Treason Fluently: Anti-Racist Reflections From an Angry White Male”, p.28, Soft Skull Press

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• If you want to know if racism is a problem in your country, you might not want to ask white people.

  Tim Wise

  Country, White, People

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• Corruption is Africa's greatest problem. Not poverty. Not lack of riches. Not racism.

  Dennis Prager

  Riches, Poverty, Problem

  Dennis Prager (2015). “Dennis Prager: Volume I”, p.37, Creators Publishing

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• If I had to guess and put a name on it, I'd say that at some point, the drug war was as much a function of class and social control as it was of racism.

  David Simon

  War, Class, Names

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• I maintain that the period during the first half of the 1990s, the period in which rising inequality reached its peak, was a period in which we came very, very close to a demagogic immobilization of racism in this society.

  William Julius Wilson

  Rising, Half, Firsts

  New River Media Interview, www.pbs.org.

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• Racism does not diminish with brains, it's a disease, a sickness, it may incubate in ignorance but it doesn't necessarily disappear with the gaining of wisdom!

  Bryce Courtenay

  Ignorance, Brain, Doe

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• The protesters, in Jerusalem and in Tel Aviv, revealed an open and raw wound at the heart of Israeli society, the pain of a community crying out over a sense of discrimination, racism, and of being unanswered.

  Reuven Rivlin

  Pain, Heart, Community

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• The new racism, like God, works in mysterious ways and is quite effective in maintaining white privilege. For example, instead of saying as they used to say during the Jim Crow era that they do not want us as neighbors, they say things nowadays such as 'I am concerned about crime, property values and schools.'

  Eduardo Bonilla-Silva

  School, White Privilege, Crow

  "The new threat: 'Racism without racists'". Interview with John Blake, www.cnn.com. November 27, 2014.

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• Colorblind racism is the new racial music most people dance to, the 'new racism' is subtle, institutionalized and seemingly nonracial.

  Eduardo Bonilla-Silva

  Music, People, Subtle

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• Fear and ignorance are the key roots to racism.

  Timothy Long

  Fear, Ignorance, Keys

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• Poverty. Racism. Isn't it strange, only the homeless are begging for change?

  Bo Burnham

  Funny, Humor, Poverty

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• Are you ready to sacrifice to end world hunger? To sacrifice to end colonialism? To end neo-colonialism? To end racism? To end sexism?

  Assata Shakur

  Sacrifice, Colonialism, World

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• Ulysses is the greatest anti-racist text in the English language, and it challenges right from the beginning the vicious racism which lies near the foundations of the Irish Free State and of the Irish republic.

  Tom Paulin

  Lying, Challenges, Foundation

  "Not one of us" by Tom Paulin, www.theguardian.com. August 29, 2000.

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• Racism is an effect of slavery, not the other way around. Once slavery was abolished, not only did racism not disappear, neither did the economic system it upheld.

  Sarah Churchwell

  Slavery, Way, Economic

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• It is up to us to take care of this planet, it is our only home. To betray nature is to betray us. To save nature is to save us. Because whatever you're fighting for, racism or poverty. Feminism, gay rights or any type of equality. It won't matter in the least. Because if we don't all work together to save the environment, we will be equally extinct.

  Prince Ea

  Home, Heart, Gay

  "Dear future generations: Sorry". Prince Ea's video address to the people about mitigating climate change on Earth Day, www.globalcitizen.org. April 22, 2015.

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• Any time there's racism somewhere in sports, we should get it out of there because sports is a place where everything's supposed to be fair.

  Ice Cube

  Sports, Should, Supposed To Be

  "Ice Cube: 'I don't shed any tears' for Donald Sterling". Interview with Michael Huang, www.espn.co.uk. August 7, 2015.

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• What surprises me is-even though discrimination against women and racial discrimination still exist, they have improved a lot, especially among artists. And just when I felt I could finally take a break, I encounter the age discrimination. I turned 72 and started noticing a drastic difference in people's attitudes. I started with racism and sexism in the beginning and fought them so hard and was finally ready to relax. Then, here comes ageism, and I feel like, "Give me a break!"

  Yoko Ono

  Attitude, Artist, Differences

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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  Sexism and racism are parallel problems. You can compare them in some ways, but they're not at all the same. But they're both symptoms inside the white male power structure.

  Frida Kahlo

  White, Males, Way

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• I think for folks of color the key to combatting racism period is a) trusting their instincts and b) solidarity with one another.

  Tim Wise

  Thinking, Keys, Color

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• When I started acting in the film industry when I was 16 years old, in 1980, I was going to all the revival theaters in Los Angeles. They were playing mostly films from the '60s and '70s, some from the early '20s and '30s, before that Hays commission. Those films did question things a lot, and there definitely was a switch in 1934. You can see very distinctly in 1934, it's harder to understand what the real culture was. Films made before 1934, you can really kind of see the racism, sexism, drug use, etc. that was going on at that time. And then it was all stopped.

  Crispin Glover

  Real, Years, Drug Use

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I think we've produced a stronger prohibition on real racism, while maintaining freedom of speech in ordinary public discussion. So I'm very comfortable with where we're at. We're not dogmatic or impervious to a further argument, that's why we released it as an exposure draft rather than simply releasing it straight into the parliament.

  Tony Abbott

  Real, Thinking, Freedom Of Speech

  "Grattan on Friday: In Conversation with Tony Abbott". Interview with Michelle Grattan, theconversation.com. March 27, 2014.

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• I grew up in a very loving middle class family. My parents were educators. I'm not even the first PhD in my family. They tried to shield me, just as other parents in my neighborhood tried to shield their children. But you knew there was a reason that you couldn't go to that theme park or to a movie theater or to a hamburger stand. They couldn't shield you completely. What they did though was they never let it be an excuse for not achieving, and they always said racism is somebody else's problem, not yours. They tried in that way not to make us bitter about Birmingham.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Children, Class, Parent

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• To have one's race brutally treated for so many years, even after the end of slavery and segregation, people are going to rise up with violence to attain what they believe is rightfully theirs. The most important thing at this time is raising the awareness of everyone; people need to be educated everywhere about all aspects of racism and how it affects people still today.

  Assata Shakur

  Believe, Race, Years

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• Racism had grown out of slavery and exploitation and was very hard to eradicate quickly and completely.

  Assata Shakur

  Slavery, Exploitation, Hard

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