Racism Quotes - Page 39

• Racism and sexism are not "problems" or "topics." They are ways of defining reality and living our lives that most of us learned along with learning how to tie our shoes and how to drink from a cup.

  Paula Rothenberg

  Reality, Ties, Shoes

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• Fantastically, Australia is still the lucky country. We have the flawed but necessary gift of democracy. Currently there is a debate about whether there is racism in Australia. There is racism in every country in the world. Relatively speaking, we are tolerant of one another. We have a large and giving land and, if you haven't seen its beauty, you haven't seen a beauty precious to the earth.

  Martin Flanagan

  Beauty, Country, Land

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• The new racism: Racism without 'racists.' Today, racial segregation and division often result from habits, policies, and institutions that are not explicitly designed to discriminate. Contrary to popular belief, discrimination or segregation do not require animus. They thrive even in the absence of prejudice or ill will. It's common to have racism without racists.

  Eduardo Bonilla-Silva

  Ill Will, Prejudice, Division

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• I was taught to see racism only in individual acts of meanness, not in invisible systems conferring dominance on my group

  Peggy McIntosh

  Groups, Dominance, Taught

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• As a white person, I realized I had been taught about racism as something that puts others at a disadvantage, but had been taught not to see one of its corollary aspects, white privilege, which puts me at an advantage.

  Peggy McIntosh

  White Privilege, Taught, Advantage

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• Racism is not merely a simplistic hatred. It is, more often, broad sympathy toward some and broader skepticism toward others.

  Ta-Nehisi Coates

  Hatred, Broads, Skepticism

  Ta-Nehisi Coates (2017). “We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy”, p.107, Penguin UK

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• Racism is, among other things, the unearned skepticism of one group of humans joined to the unearned sympathy for another.

  Ta-Nehisi Coates

  Groups, Skepticism, Humans

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• The essence of American racism is disrespect.

  Ta-Nehisi Coates

  Essence, Disrespect

  "The Case for Reparations". www.theatlantic.com.

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• We are social beings who make communities with an urgency, and it is a stern charge to make us take refuge in the lonely world of oneself. ...Racism attempts to occlude our cosmopolitanism (of the songs in and out of our bones), and it often appropriates our mild forms of xenophobia into its own virulent project. Difference among peoples is something that we negotiate in our everyday interactions, asking questions and being better informed of our mutual realities. To transform difference into the body is an act of bad faith, a denial of our shared nakedness.

  Vijay Prashad

  Song, Lonely, Xenophobia

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• To finish building the free society dreamed of by Washington, Franklin, and Jefferson, we must draw upon the resources of the enlightened imagination, which can be systematically developed by the spiritual sciences of India and Tibet. We have not yet tamed our own demons of racism, nationalism, sexism, and materialism. We have not yet made peace with a land we took by force and have only partly paid for. We are a teeming conglomeration of people from different tribes who have yet to embrace fully the humanness in one another. And none of us can be really free until all of us are.

  Robert Thurman

  Spiritual, Land, People

  FaceBook post by Robert Thurman from Dec 14, 2016

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• Media are focused on comments Michael Jordan made about race which appear in my book. He made those comments years ago, talking of his youth

  Roland Lazenby

  Book, Race, Media

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• The glory of this land has been its capacity for transcending the moral evils of our past. For example, the long struggle of minority citizens for equal rights, once a source of disunity and civil war, is now a point of pride for all Americans. We must never go back. There is no room for racism, anti-Semitism, or other forms of ethnic and racial hatred in this country.

  Ronald Reagan

  Country, War, Struggle

  Remarks at the Annual Convention of the the National Association of Evangelicals, delivered 8 March 1983, Orlando, Florida

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• However, while we should certainly celebrate the demise of overt official racism, we must also critically examine where we are at this historical moment, recognize the many challenges ahead and reaffirm our commitment to making Brown v. Board a reality.

  Ed Markey

  Commitment, Reality, Historical

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• People have accused me of many things: racism, anti-Semitism, misogyny, intolerance, anti-Darwinism and anti-homosexualism [sic]. Well, I tell those people that there was someone else who was accused of things...our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. I rest my case.

  Jerry Falwell

  Jesus, People, Christ

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• I cannot emphasize enough how wrongheaded this is. Withholding criticism and ignoring differences are racism in its purest form. Yet these cultural experts fail to notice that, through their anxious avoidance of criticizing non-Western countries, they trap the people who represent these cultures in a state of backwardness. The experts may have the best of intentions, but as we all know, the road to hell is paved with good intentions.

  Ayaan Hirsi Ali

  Country, Differences, People

  "Excerpt: 'The Caged Virgin'", www.npr.org. May 4, 2006.

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• Not only do we suffer from racism and sexism, but we also suffer from ageism. And that is that once you reach a certain age, you're not allowed to be adventurous, you're not allowed to be sexual and I think that's rather hideous. [...] I mean, is there a rule? Are you just supposed to die when you're 40?

  Madonna Ciccone

  Mean, Suffering, Age

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

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• Fascism is cured by reading, and racism is cured by traveling

  Miguel de Unamuno

  Reading, Fascism

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• The fact is that racism, despite all the doomsayers, has diminished

  Constance Baker Motley

  Racist, Facts, Despite

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• We African Americans have now spent the major part of the 20th Century battling racism

  Constance Baker Motley

  African American, Racist, Century

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• Racism is essentially natural, it's old fashioned it's an evolutionary phase that we're going through. Ultimately it wont exist.

  Michael Hutchence

  Racist, Phases, Natural

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• How long is this endless groveling before every cry of 'racism' going to continue before the whole country collectively throws up?

  Pat Buchanan

  Country, Long, Cry

  "Buchanan's syndicated column". July 28, 1993.

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• The system of patriarchy is a historic construct; it has a beginning; it will have an end. Its time seems to have nearly run its course—it no longer serves the needs of men or women and in its inextricable linkage to militarism, hierarchy, and racism it threatens the very existence of life on earth. What will come after, what kind of structure will be the foundation for alternate forms of social organization we cannot yet know. We are living in an age of unprecedented transformation. We are in the process of becoming.

  Gerda Lerner

  Life, Running, Men

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• I have always abhorred the word racism. I never use it.

  Jim Clyburn

  Use

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• Before the game there was all this stuff about anti-racism and anti-bullying. It would be a good idea to start wearing wristbands for anti-diving.

  Roy Keane

  Soccer, Football, Bullying

  "Keane Dives Into Cole Ploy" by Christopher Davies, www.telegraph.co.uk. February 17, 2005.

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• The truth is, no one wants to face the fact that there was a huge double standard in baseball, and white athletes like Mark McGwire, Cal Ripken Jr., and Brady Anderson were protected and coddled in a way that an outspoken Latino like me never would be. The light-eyed and white-skinned were declared household names. Canseco the Cuban was left out in the cold, where racism and double standards rule.

  Jose Canseco

  Baseball, Athlete, Light

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