Racism Quotes - Page 25

• I worked, studied, mothered and continued to be an activist. I found that Cuba was much different from the US; its government was genuinely trying to erase racism.

  Assata Shakur

  Government, Trying, Different

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• Imperialism is the underlying motor of racism. The underlying reason that racism keeps on being promoted in all of its various forms.

  Assata Shakur

  Reason, Imperialism, Form

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• I think anybody who is honestly struggling against racism must struggle against imperialism and vice versa.

  Assata Shakur

  Struggle, Thinking, Vices

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• Unfortunately, a lot of fantasy is chock full of sexism and racism. A lot of authors don't even realize they're doing it, and a lot of readers don't know they're reading it. That's what makes it so scary in some cases.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Reading, Scary, Fantasy

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• Sexism and racism and homophobia and classism are so naturalized. All these stereotypes make people think it's just normal that straight white men are getting all the breaks.

  Kathleen Hanna

  Men, Thinking, White Man

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• When it comes to racism, you hear people say, "I don't care if people are white, black, purple or green." Hold on, now, purple or green? Come on now, you gotta draw the line somewhere.

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Humor, Purple

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• It is not possible to erase racism just because African-Americans have reached a level of financial success and crossover appeal.

  Farrah Gray

  African American, Levels, Financial

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• When love of one's people becomes an absolute, it turns into racism. When love of equality turns into a supreme thing, it can result in hatred and violence toward anyone who has led a privileged life. It is the settled tendency of human societies to turn good political causes into counterfeit gods.

  Timothy Keller

  People, Hatred, Political

  Timothy Keller (2009). “Counterfeit Gods: The Empty Promises of Money, Sex, and Power, and the Only Hope that Matters”, p.60, Penguin

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• Even when black youth gangs target white strangers on the streets and spew out racial hatred as they batter them and rob them, mayors, police chiefs and the media tiptoe around their racism and many in the media either don't cover these stories or leave out the race and racism involved.

  Thomas Sowell

  Race, Media, Black Youth

  "Social Degeneration: Part III" by Thomas Sowell, www.realclearpolitics.com. August 16, 2011.

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• Welfare now erodes work and family and thus keeps poor people poor. Accompanying welfare is an ideology - sustaining a whole system of federal and state bureaucracies - that also operates to destroy their faith. The ideology takes the form of false theories of discrimination and spurious claims of racism and sexism as the dominant forces in the lives of the poor.

  George Gilder

  People, Erode, Discrimination

  George Gilder (2012). “Wealth and Poverty: A New Edition for the Twenty-First Century”, p.177, Regnery Publishing

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• The sad and tragic fact is that the civil rights movement, despite its honorable and courageous past, has over the years degenerated into a demagogic hustle, promoting the mindless racism they once fought against.

  Thomas Sowell

  Past, Rights, Years

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• The welfare state has done to Black Americans what slavery (and Jim Crow and racism) could not have done. . .break up the black family. Today, just slightly over 30 percent of black kids live in two-parent families. Historically, from the 1870s on. . . 75-90 percent of black kids lived in two-parent families.

  John Stossel

  Kids, Two, Parent

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• I'm most biased about how white people have to learn to shut up when the conversation of racism comes up. White people have to learn to listen. Whether they agree with what they're hearing or not, they have to know to shut up and listen.

  W. Kamau Bell

  White, People, Hearing

  Source: collider.com

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• You might not agree with something, but it doesn't mean you don't need to listen to it. White people have to accept that they don't always know about racism.

  W. Kamau Bell

  Mean, White, People

  Source: collider.com

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• As a person of color, you're in a PhD level racism class, every day. Every day, I'm in a deep racism seminar. And I'm not saying that white people aren't taking that class, but they don't show up that often and they're auditing it.

  W. Kamau Bell

  Color, Class, White

  Source: collider.com

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• To judge by what my children are learning in school, you'd think American history was 75 percent slavery and 25 percent everything else (and that 25 percent includes a large dollop of imperialism, racism, sexism and homophobia, leaving little time for Lincoln, Edison, Clay, Holmes, Alcott, Dickinson, Adams, Longfellow or Fulton).

  Mona Charen

  Children, School, Thinking

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• The black conservative is responsible for making people question an idea that racism must be extinct before black people can overcome. Understanding that our goal is to thrive despite racism rather than fetishizing it is, in fact, the central ideological plank of people deemed "black conservatives." This is a coherent position, but that can be hard to perceive, given the way that race has been discussed in our land over the past 40 years or so.

  John H. McWhorter

  Past, Ideas, Race

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• Hatred of producers of wealth still flourishes and has become, in fact, the racism of the intelligentsia.

  George Gilder

  Hatred, Facts, Wealth

  George Gilder (2012). “Wealth and Poverty: A New Edition for the Twenty-First Century”, p.141, Regnery Publishing

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• By encouraging Americans to adopt a group mentality, the advocates of so called 'diversity' actually perpetuate racism. Their obsession with racial group identity is inherently racist.

  Ron Paul

  Diversity, Identity, Groups

  "Government and Racism" by Ron Paul, April 16, 2007.

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• Patriotism at the expense of another nation is as wicked as racism at the expense of another race. . . Let us resolve to be patriots always, nationalists never. Let us love our country, but pledge allegiance to the earth and to the flora and fauna and human life that it supports - one planet indivisible, with clean air,... soil and water; with liberty, justice and peace for all.

  William Sloane Coffin

  Love, Life, Country

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• Those policies [of Jean-Marie Le Pen ]I find repellent. I believe many people right across consist the world do. There is no future in that type of narrow minded racism and nationalism.

  Rachel Maddow

  Believe, People, World

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• What we have got to do immediately is to say that racism and xenophobia is totally unacceptable and we will stand with the 1 percent of our population who are Muslims, for undocumented people in this country. Absolutely, we will stand.

  Bernie Sanders

  Country, Xenophobia, People

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• What characterized the whole punk scene for me in 1977 was there was no racism or sexism. It was an anarchy of -isms, and a matter of abolishing it all.

  Chrissie Hynde

  Isms, Matter, Anarchy

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• So why would I want to call myself a conservative after the way them white racist thugs have used that word to hide behind? They call themselves new Republicans.

  Dick Gregory

  Thug, White, Way

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• A lot of racism going on in the world right now. Who's more racist? Black people or white people? Black people. You know why? 'Cuz we hate black people too! Everything white people don't like about black people, black people really don't like about black people.

  Chris Rock

  Hate, White, People

  "Chris Rock: Bring the Pain". TVSpecial, www.imdb.com. June 1, 1996.

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