Racism Quotes - Page 33

• Racism built me into a person that was set up to be self-destructive.

  Jayson Blair

  Self, Persons, Built

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• Slavery was not born of racism; rather, racism was the consequence of slavery.

  Eric Williams

  Slavery, Born, Consequence

  Eric Williams (2014). “The Economic Aspect of the Abolition of the West Indian Slave Trade and Slavery”, p.16, Rowman & Littlefield

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• American fighters of the Pacific War were not heroes. The desperation of island combat included exchanged barbarities of which no one would willingly speak for a generation. On the American side, there were foul racism, vengeful refusals to take prisoners, a generalized brutality that extended to a savage air war.

  James Carroll

  War, Hero, Air

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• Racism is ridiculous no matter where it's coming from.

  Alan Ball

  Matter, Ridiculous

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• If anti-Semitism is a variety of racism, it is a most peculiar variety, with many unique characteristics. In my view as a historian, it is so peculiar that it deserves to be placed in a quite different category. I would call it an intellectual disease, a disease of the mind, extremely infectious and massively destructive.

  Paul Johnson

  Unique, Views, Intellectual

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• The 'black armband' view of our history reflects a belief that most Australian history since 1788 has been little more than a disgraceful story of imperialism, exploitation, racism, sexism and other forms of discrimination. I take a very different view. I believe that the balance sheet of our history is one of heroic achievement and that we have achieved much more as a nation of which we can be proud of than which we should be ashamed.

  John Howard

  Believe, Views, Achievement

  Sir Robert Menzies Lecture, 1996.

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• Racism was just a tool to deal with frustration and pain and that people are in denial about the way we feel and desperately trying to control their environment the way their lives are. And ultimately their scapegoats aren't going to make them feel better, it's just going to increase hatred and the problem gets worse and worse.

  Matt Dillon

  Pain, Feel Better, Frustration

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• Puerto Ricans are Americans. We've been American citizens since 1917. We fought the same battles, made the same sacrifices. We've lost our land in the same way that Native Americans lost their land, and we've been the subject of discrimination and racism in the same way that African Americans have. We've suffered the full spectrum of oppression, and yet we've been off the map 4,000 miles away so we haven't even been able to argue our case.

  Nelson Antonio Denis

  Native American, Sacrifice, Land

  "The Lost History of Puerto Rico’s Independence Movement". Interview with AJ Vicens, www.motherjones.com. April 21, 2015.

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• Even if, personally, I'm in a place of contentment or solidity, I feel like it's hard not to look out into American culture and see vast inequity, widespread institutionalized violence and racism and transphobia and environmental destruction. It's hard to be in this world and feel a sense of innate satisfaction at all. There's plenty of things to feel unsettled about.

  Carrie Brownstein

  Environmental, Contentment, Culture

  "Carrie Brownstein Discusses Her Memoir". Interview with Jenn Pelly, pitchfork.com. October 27, 2015.

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• I never want to position myself where I seem like an ambassador of anti-racism. I am fortunate enough to say that I've never experienced extreme amounts of racism, but a lot of my friends do.

  Lilly Singh

  Ambassadors, Want, Enough

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• I think the best way I could ever fight racism is just being as successful as possible.

  Lilly Singh

  Fighting, Successful, Thinking

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• I think the rap community always tells the truth. And I think that it's important that we listen to their voices so we can have a roadmap, because artists - almost every single artist in hip-hop, they paint a picture of society that's overlooked. The misogyny, the racism, the violence, the homophobia, these are things that we try to avoid instead of dealing with. All of that I see it so often.

  Russell Simmons

  Rap, Thinking, Artist

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• The thief who is in prison is not necessarily more dishonest than his fellows at large, but mostly one who, through ignorance or stupidity [or racism or poverty! - Draffan] steals in a way that is not customary. He snatches a loaf from the baker's counter and is promptly run into gaol. Another man snatches bread from the table of hundreds of widows and orphans and similar credulous souls who do not know the ways of company promoters; and, as likely as not, he is run into Parliament.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Running, Ignorance, Men

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• Nationalism is just racism with a flag.

  Peter Joseph

  Flags, Nationalism

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• If you are white, racism is too easily ignored and forgiven, regarded as of burning concern only to the ethnic minorities, and therefore of relatively marginal significance.

  Martin Jacques

  White, Minorities, Burning

  "Sarkozy plays the race card - and our establishment cheers" by Martin Jacques, www.theguardian.com. May 3, 2007.

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• Libertarianism is the enemy of all racism.

  Ron Paul

  Enemy, Libertarianism

  Interview with Bill Moyers, www.pbs.org. January 4, 2008.

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• The most persistent of all attractive illusions in our country may be that racism can be ended by one single blow.

  McGeorge Bundy

  Country, Blow, May

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• Racism is wrong, racism is very dangerous.

  Justin Simien

  Dangerous

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I think there are white alumni out there who wouldn't mind having an African American president of their school, but would be reluctant to have an African American coach, because he represents the school so. I think it's just sheer backward racism.

  Frank Deford

  School, Thinking, White

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I don't think you can explain why all these other sports and college basketball have a fair representation of African American coaches, but college football doesn't. You can dig and scramble and scratch, but at the end of the day I think it's just pure, old-fashioned racism.

  Frank Deford

  Basketball, Sports, Football

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• If you admit to being racist, it says you acknowledge that you are being driven by projections and stereotypes that were formed in the creation of our country. Racism is deeply rooted in America.

  Claudia Rankine

  Country, America, Racist

  "I am invested in keeping present the forgotten bodies". Interview with Ratik Asokan, logger.believermag.com. December 10, 2014.

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• Accusing somebody of racism is a very effective weapon in Germany. Islamists know this: As soon as you accuse someone of demonizing Islam, then the European side backs down.

  Bassam Tibi

  Islam, Germany, Weapons

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• We, who think like animals living in small groups, must structure a global world. We believe in universal human rights and believe racism and war are wrong. On the other hand, it is our nature to be cooperative and loving almost exclusively with the members of the group to which we feel we belong.

  Frans de Waal

  War, Believe, Animal

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• We got to face some facts. That the masses are poor, that the masses belong to what you call the lower class, and when I talk about the masses, I'm talking about the white masses, I'm talking about the black masses, and the brown masses, and the yellow masses, too. We've got to face the fact that some people say you fight fire best with fire, but we say you put fire out best with water. We say you don't fight racism with racism. We're gonna fight racism with solidarity. We say you don't fight capitalism with no black capitalism; you fight capitalism with socialism.

  Fred Hampton

  Fighting, Fire, Talking

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  How are we going to get rid of racism? Stop talking about it!

  Morgan Freeman

  Talking, Black History Month, Black Racism

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