Racism Quotes - Page 29

• When the media would call and want to interview me, I thought it was 'cause they really wanted to find out what I thought about things. I thought it was because they really wanted to find out who I am. That's not what they wanted. They already in their minds knew who I was and they didn't like it, and they wanted face-to-face opportunities to expose my defects and my problems and my racism and bigotry and all this.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Opportunity, Who I Am, Media

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Racism really does exist.

  Normani Hamilton

  Doe

  Source: www.usmagazine.com

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• There are, however, those who have called the book [The Kite Runner] divisive and objected to some of the issues raised in the book, namely racism, discrimination, ethnic inequality etc.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Book, Issues, Kites

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• We had a Judeo-Christian ethic hanging around a couple thousand years that didn't help erase racism at all. So the notion of the little half-hour comedy changing things is something I think is silly.

  Norman Lear

  Christian, Couple, Silly

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• We don't have a refugee crisis in America; we have a racism crisis here.

  Phyllis Bennis

  Refugee Crisis, America, Crisis

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Growing inequality is a huge problem, and of course is intimately connected to xenophobia and racism.

  Adam Hochschild

  Xenophobia, Growing, Problem

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• The national conversation around white entitlement, around institutionalized racism, the Black Lives Matter movement, I think, came about in large part because of the widening and broadening of our understanding of inequality. That conversation was begun by Occupy.

  Cathy O'Neil

  Thinking, White, Understanding

  Source: www.salon.com

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• [The Democratic Party]it's a party with an incredible century-and-a-half history of institutional racism.

  Sean Hannity

  Party, Half, Incredibles

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Tony Blair a couple years ago was going around apologizing for everything. He apologized for the Irish potato famine. The Canadian government apologized for how it treated Indian school children.When is the Democratic Party going to apologize for being the biggest slave-holding-supporting institution on the planet and sticking with racism for the century after the abolition of slavery?

  Sean Hannity

  Couple, Children, Party

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• The "r" word [racism] is a scary word to me - I don't like to say it. I'm not trying to say it doesn't exist. It's incredibly inflammatory and invites a lot of awful mistakes and injustices that have happened and still do happen. It's a word that has been thrown around in a way that incites a lot of bad feelings in most people.

  Brandi Chastain

  Mistake, People, Scary

  "Brandi Chastain talks about LeBron dustup". Interview with Dan Fleschner, www.today.com. March 27, 2008.

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• When is the Democratic Party going to apologize for being the biggest slave-holding-supporting institution on the planet and sticking with racism for the century after the abolition of slavery?

  Mark Steyn

  Party, Abolition Of Slavery, Apologizing

  "Is the Confederate flag controversy a Democratic problem?". "Hannity" with Sean Hannity, www.foxnews.com. June 24, 2015.

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• I sometimes feel that racism is getting worse.

  Tahar Rahim

  Sometimes, Feels

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• Claudia Rankine's Citizen comes at you like doom. It's the best note in the wrong song that is America. Its various realities-'mistaken' identity, social racism, the whole fabric of urban and suburban life-are almost too much to bear, but you bear them, because it's the truth. Citizen is Rankine's Spoon River Anthology, an epic as large and frightening and beautiful as the country and various emotional states that produced it.

  Hilton Als

  Beautiful, Country, Song

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• racism is alive and doing too well in America.

  Johnnetta B. Cole

  America, Alive, Wells

  Johnnetta B. Cole (2011). “Conversations: Straight Talk with America's Sister President”, p.58, Anchor

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• Crisis' seems to be too mild a word to describe conditions in countless African-American communities. It is beyond crisis when in the richest nation in the world, African Americans in Harlem live shorter lives than the people of Bangladesh, one of the poorest nations of the world.

  Johnnetta B. Cole

  People, Community, African American

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• The main barrier between East and West today is that the white man is not willing to give up his superiority and the colored man is no longer willing to endure his inferiority.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Giving Up, Men, White

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• The doors of churches, hotels, concert halls and reading rooms are alike closed against the Negro as a man, but every place is open to him as a servant.

  Ida B. Wells

  Reading, Men, Doors

  Ida B. Wells (2013). “Crusade for Justice: The Autobiography of Ida B. Wells”, p.100, University of Chicago Press

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• no case of libel by a negro against a white would even reach a southern court.

  Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

  White, Southern, Court

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• Ignorance, arrogance, and racism have bloomed as Superior Knowledge in all too many universities.

  Alice Walker

  Education, Ignorance, Arrogance

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• Sexist language, racist language, theistic language - all are typical of the policing languages of mastery, and cannot, do not, permit new knowledge or encourage the mutual exchange of ideas.

  Toni Morrison

  Ideas, Typical, Mastery

  Nobel Prize for Literature Lecture, delivered 7 December 1993

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• anything being perceived as being superior takes the noun. And everything that isn't, that's judged to be inferior, requires an adjective. So there are black novelists and novelists. There are women physicians and physicians. Male nurses and nurses.

  Gloria Steinem

  Nurse, Black, Novelists

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• There is bias and sexism everywhere, just like there are problems of racism and homophobia stemming from the whole notion that we're arranged in a hierarchy, that we're ranked rather than linked.

  Gloria Steinem

  Hierarchy, Discrimination, Problem

  "The Humanist Interview with Gloria Steinem". Interview with Jennifer Bardi, thehumanist.com. August 14, 2012.

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• [To the patronizing train conductor who had twice said, 'Auntie, give me your ticket':] Which of my sister's sons are you?

  Mary McLeod Bethune

  Son, Giving, Tickets

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• I received a most amusing postcard the other morning. Unfortunately, it was not signed in a readable manner so I cannot answer it privately. But it comes from Moblie, Ala., and says: 'Dear Mrs. Roosevelt: You have not answered my question, the amount of Negro blood you have in your veins, if any.' I am afraid none of us know how much nor what kind of blood we have in our veins, since chemically it is all the same. And most of us cannot trace our ancestry more than a few generations.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Morning, Blood, Veins

  Eleanor Roosevelt (1991). “Eleanor Roosevelt's My Day: First lady of the world, her acclaimed columns, 1953-1962”

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• White hate crimes, white hate speech. I still try to claim I wasn't brought up to hate. But hate isn't the half of it. I grew up in the vast encircling presumption of whiteness - that primary quality of being which knows itself, its passions, only against an otherness that has to be dehumanized. I grew up in white silence that was utterly obsessional. Race was the theme whatever the topic.

  Adrienne Rich

  Hate, Passion, White

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