Racism Quotes - Page 26

• I live in racist America and I'm uneducated, yet a lot of people love me and like what I do, and I can make a living from it. You can't do much better than that.

  Richard Pryor

  America, People, Racist

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

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• Racism and discrimination of any kind have no place in football.

  Sepp Blatter

  Football, Discrimination, Kind

  "Twitter reacts angrily to Sepp Blatter's comments on racism", edition.cnn.com. November 17, 2011.

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• For too long now, European football authorities have not taken the problem of racism in the game seriously and refuse to acknowledge how widespread the problem is.

  Rio Ferdinand

  Football, Taken, Games

  "Ferdinand told volley is off target" by Daniel Taylor, www.theguardian.com. March 14, 2006.

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• I don't mean to be a racist but if you're going to get raped by a Japanese guy, it's not going to hurt at all.

  Chelsea Handler

  Hurt, Mean, Guy

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• We can`t allow racism and xenophobia to gain traction.

  Bernie Sanders

  Xenophobia, Gains, Traction

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• We`ve got to stand with those people who are being attacked today, but at the same time, it`s not good enough to say that racism and xenophobia is bad. We`ve got to reach those people today who are so angry, who are so hateful and say, yes, you have a right to be angry, don`t take it out on the Muslims. Work with us to create an agenda and political movement that will make your life better, not just other people`s life worse.

  Bernie Sanders

  Xenophobia, People, Not Good Enough

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• News footage came on the TV during dinner of bloody bodies coming back from battle in Vietnam, or the race riots in the South, people getting hosed in Selma, Alabama, or the Biafra war, where I got my name. In my household, it was explained and discussed with the children, as a way of educating us from when we first started grade school why racism and war were wrong, what this all really means.

  Jello Biafra

  Children, War, School

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• The thing is that racism is systematic, so of course it sometimes manifested itself within the clubs. But I have certainly experienced racism outside of the clubs as well.

  Craig Seymour

  Clubs, Systematic, Sometimes

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Within the context of the clubs, and perhaps the sex business as a whole, the issue of race becomes very complicated because you can't force someone to pay for something - or someone - that they don't want, whether their desire - or lack thereof - is motivated by racism or not.

  Craig Seymour

  Sex, Issues, Race

  Source: therumpus.net

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• In Italy, especially in '70s and '80s, there was a lot of racism between north and south. And my mom immigrated from the south to the north, from Puglia, the heel of Italy. But what made me feel different was society, not my family.

  Riccardo Tisci

  Mom, Different, My Family

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• When you look at the Justice Department's report talking about the Ferguson Police Department's rampant pattern of discrimination and its excessive use of force against African-American citizens, it's hard to try to rationalize how this cesspool of racism doesn't spill over onto the individual officers.

  Benjamin Crump

  Talking, Justice, African American

  "Robertson Treatment Syndicated Column (RTSC): A Conversation with Civil Rights Attorney Benjamin Crump". Interview with Gil Robertson, mobile.eurweb.com. March 24, 2015.

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• We need to raise our sons more like our daughters. We need to relieve them of this burden of the idea that to be masculine they have to be superior, which is what they get addicted to, and why both racism and sexism are crimes that I call superiority crimes.

  Gloria Steinem

  Daughter, Son, Ideas

  Source: www.elle.com

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• In this world we live in, racism is alive and well in all venues. We immediately categorize people, and that's just not right.

  Leigh Anne Tuohy

  People, Alive, World

  Source: www.today.com

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• You could feel America starting to ease up a little bit on racism, against blacks in certain pockets, and then suddenly The Cosby Show bubbled up and it was the right time for it.

  Adam McKay

  America, Pockets, Ease

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• Don't tell me I have latent sexism or racism that I need to confront. I don't believe that. I think we are so burned by the current situation that we want somebody that it isn't possible to have. We want someone who definitely looks like the messiah.

  Sara Paretsky

  Believe, Thinking, Needs

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• We would solve a lot of huge problems that are causing massive suffering. Poverty, violence, homophobia, heterosexism, racism, the environment - all these things that are crippling us. We need big, bold, dangerous, crazy ideas to solve these problems. When failure is not an option, innovation and creativity are not options.

  Brené Brown

  Crazy, Creativity, Ideas

  "Brené Brown to Deliver Opening Keynote at EWlive14". Interview with Chantal Pierrat, blog.emergingwomen.com. July 1, 2014.

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• When we look at that jingoism and the sexism and the racism and the homophobia, that's not who we are, and that's not the country that I want my daughter to grow up in.

  Chelsea Clinton

  Daughter, Country, Growing Up

  "Clinton Family Takes On Iowa". www.npr.org. January 17, 2016.

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• I applied for a scholarship to Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia. I knew I was good enough, but they turned me down. And it took me about six months to realize it was because I was black. I never really got over that jolt of racism at the time.

  Nina Simone

  Philadelphia, Black, Six

  "Nina Simone's Daughter Says This Film Gets Her Mom's Story Straight". Interview with Michel Martin, gpbnews.org. February 14, 2016.

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• Slaveholders deployed so-called scientific racism to justify racial slavery.

  Manisha Sinha

  Slavery, Justify, Slaveholders

  Source: www.bostonglobe.com

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• There's the continuing challenges of racism, of sexism, of discrimination against the LGBT community, of the way that we treat people as opposed to how we want to be treated.

  Hillary Clinton

  Lgbt Community, People, Challenges

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• The issue of racism happens all over the world. Granted, people - especially Americans - don't know the the Canadian culture. But if you look outside this country, it's a problem all around the planet.

  Stephan James

  Country, Issues, People

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• I'd hasten to say that the prejudice in Dust City isn't completely analogous to racism in the real world.

  Robert Paul Weston

  Real, Dust, Cities

  Source: www.yabookshelf.com

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• I always try to individualize everything, every person. I see individuals and that's why I've never fallen for racism, or any type or classification of people.

  Mike Vallely

  People, Trying, Individual

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• I live in a pretty liberal place, so it's a lot of hidden racism and things like that. If you really look up California, it's a really shitty place when it comes to things like that.

  Vince Staples

  California, Looks, Look Up

  "Interview: Summertime '16 With Vince Staples". Interview with Shahlin Graves, www.coupdemainmagazine.com. February 29, 2016.

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• Money is the root of all evil. Yeah, money is the root. It's not racism and "this-ism" and "that-ism"; it's our thirst and hunger for money. And that's where all the bodies are buried.

  Ice Cube

  Roots, Evil, Isms

  "Ice Cube Says Hollywood Isn't Cool Enough, Adds: "I'm Ready to Run a Studio"". Interview with Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. February 25, 2016.

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