Tokenism Quotes

• Tokenism does not change stereotypes of social systems but works to preserve them, since it dulls the revolutionary impulse.

  Mary Daly

  Change, Inspiring, Doe

  Mary Daly (2015). “Beyond God the Father: Toward a Philosophy of Women's Liberation”, p.36, Beacon Press

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• The white man will keep on granting tokenism; a few big Negroes will get big jobs, but the black masses will catch hell as long as they stay in the white man's house.

  Malcolm X

  Jobs, Men, White Man

  Source: teachingamericanhistory.org

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• Better jobs and housing are only temporary solutions. They are aspects of tokenism and don't go to the heart of the problem.

  Malcolm X

  Jobs, Heart, Problem

  Source: teachingamericanhistory.org

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• The same is true of ranking him thus against any work of literature. [Bob Dylan] has been made, through no fault of his own, the object of odious tokenism.

  David Bennun

  Literature, Bob, Faults

  Source: thequietus.com

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• It has been nine years since the Supreme Court decision outlawing segregated schools, yet less than ten per cent of the Negro students in the South are in integrated schools. That isn't integration, that's tokenism!

  Malcolm X

  School, Years, Decision

  Source: teachingamericanhistory.org

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• Climate has always changed year on year and is unstoppable as a phenomenon. I am sceptical of the 'evidence' being presented as fact and do NOT believe that the interference by Government will have much affect on changing temperatures or rainfall. Indeed as a gardener in the West of Scotland I look forward to warmer temperatures and more rain so will be doing nothing as an individual that can in any event be seen as tokenism to a perceived problem.

  Brian Donohoe

  Rain, Believe, Government

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• Now the white man's time is over. Tokenism will not help him, and it will doom us. Complete separation will save us - and who knows, it might make God decide to give the white devil a few more years.

  Malcolm X

  Men, White Man, Years

  Source: teachingamericanhistory.org

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