Racism Quotes - Page 38

• Antisemitism is just another form of racism. It's the same sickness, whether it's about Christians, about Islamophobia, which is horrible. It's all wrong. It's all the same.

  Russell Simmons

  Christian, Sickness, Form

  "Rabbi Marc Schneier and Russell Simmons". "Voices on Antisemitism" podcast, www.ushmm.org. October 25, 2007.

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• I refuse to allow prejudice to defeat me.

  Dionne Warwick

  Prejudice, Defeat, Refuse

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• I've been in this struggle for many years now. I understand racism. I understand that there are a lot of people in this country who don't care about the problems of the inner city. We have to fight every day that we get up for every little thing that we get. And so I keep struggling.

  Maxine Waters

  Country, Struggle, Fighting

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• My work cuts through racial, class, geographic, and ethnic separations to directly connect to the heart, mind, and emotion with people.

  Lily Yeh

  Heart, Cutting, Class

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• (I get to) kill all the white people... How great is that?

  Jamie Foxx

  White, People, Racist

  "Jamie Foxx Defends ‘I Kill All the White People’ Joke" by The Grio, www.ebony.com. December 14, 2012.

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• From the beginning, it has been a no-no for a black man to touch a white woman.

  Nina Simone

  Men, White, Black

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• I also have been called that terrible "N" word straight to my face and not known what to do about it because it was just in like 1993 that someone called me that.

  Halle Berry

  Black, Faces, Terrible

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• The whites were really brutishly ignorant, blitheringly, so they killed people sometimes - just came into the African-American community and maimed people because they didn't agree with God's choice for the colors of the people's skin.

  Maya Angelou

  Color, People, Choices

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• It does no service to the cause of racial equality for white people to content themselves with judging themselves to be nonracist. Few people outside the clan or skinhead movements own up to all-out racism these days. White people must take the extra step. They must become anti-racist.

  Clarence Page

  White, People, Judging

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• I'm not a racist. I made a terrible, terrible mistake.

  Donald Sterling

  Mistake, Racist, Made

  "Donald Sterling tells Anderson Cooper: I was 'baited' into 'a terrible mistake'". Article by Ismael Estrada and Catherine E. Shoichet, edition.cnn.com. May 12, 2014.

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• I'm the guilty one for uttering those terrible, ugly words.

  Donald Sterling

  Ugly, Guilty, Terrible

  Full transcript: Donald Sterling’s interview with CNN’s Anderson Cooper, www.insidesocal.com. May 13, 2014.

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• A black man will be elected President of the United States. I'm sorry, that's in the year 10,000.

  Chris Rock

  Sorry, Men, Years

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• What I did not yet know so intensely was the hatred of the white American for the black, a hatred so deep that I wonder if every white man in this country, when he plants a tree, doesn't see Negroes hanging from its branches.

  Jean Genet

  Country, Men, White

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• The fact is, the most painful and tragic lesson of the 20th century was that regimes based on racial superiority and religious hatred can't be trusted to keep their word to the international community.

  Michael Bloomberg

  Religious, Community, Hatred

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• Racism was not a problem on the Discworld, because - what with trolls and dwarfs and so on - speciesism was more interesting. Black and white lived in perfect harmony and ganged up on green.

  Terry Pratchett

  Black And White, America, Perfect

  Terry Pratchett (2010). “Witches Abroad: (Discworld Novel 12)”, p.212, Random House

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• Slavery exists. It is black in the South, and white in the North.

  Andrew Johnson

  White, Black, Slavery

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• It is a great shock at the age of five or six to find that in a world of Gary Coopers you are the Indian.

  James A. Baldwin

  Age, World, Six

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• The reason people think it's important to be white is that they think it's important not to be black.

  James A. Baldwin

  Thinking, White, People

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• We are here to condemn the Palestinian occupation of the territories, but also to condemn the recent racist attack in France, against both Jews and Arabs.

  Jean-Claude Van Damme

  Racist, Occupation, Territory

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• The tragedy of the civil rights movement is that just as it achieved the beginning of the end of racial segregation, white educated elites became swept up in the glamour of the sexual revolution.

  Maggie Gallagher

  Rights, White, Style

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• In real life the people who are most bigoted are the people who have no convictions at all.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  People, Conviction

  "The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton".

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• White, black and yellow men - they all cry salt tears.

  Claude Aveline

  Men, Yellow, White

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• In America, black is a country.

  Amiri Baraka

  Country, America, Black

  Amiri Baraka (2009). “Home: Social Essays”, Akashic Books

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• Racism is the snobbery of the poor.

  Raymond Aron

  Poor, Snobbery

  Raymond Aron (1968). “Progress and Disillusion: The Dialectics of Modern Society”

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• The Scriptures have been misused to defend bloody crusades and inquisitions; to support slavery, apartheid, and segregation; to sanction the physical and emotional abuse of women and children; to persecute Jews and other non-Christian people of faith; to support the holocaust of Hitler's Third Reich; to oppose medical science; to condemn inter-racial marriage; to execute women as witches; to excuse the violent racism of the Ku Klux Klan; to mobilize militias, white supremacy and neo-nazi movements; and to condone intolerance and discrimination against sexual minorities.

  Mel White

  Christian, Children, Gay

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