- Inequality
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- Nov 07, 2020
Racism Quotes
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- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
My encounters with racism are sort of second-hand situations where I might be standing around with a group of white friends and someone makes a comment that they wouldn't make at my family reunion.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Political hypocrisy and racism make me hot under the collar.
- Believe
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- Nov 07, 2020
To me, it's 2016 about to be 2017. I can't believe there's still a racism factor.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's more outrage on Twitter about a One Direction split or about what one band member said to another than there is about institutionalized racism and something huge.
- Evil
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- Nov 07, 2020
Gone must be the days of only pointing fingers at others to fix what they may never fix. Our nation's ills are not merely the result of corruption or racism, although these are evil. Our troubles can also be traced directly to ineffective Christians.
- Challenges
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Ulysses' is the greatest anti-racist text in the English language, and it challenges right from the beginning the vicious racism which lies near the foundations of the Irish Free State and of the Irish republic.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Precisely because white denial has long trumped claims of racism, people of color tend to underreport their experiences with racial bias rather than exaggerate them.
- Nov 07, 2020
If you want to know if racism is a problem in your country, you might not want to ask white people.
- Nostalgia
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- Nov 07, 2020
Today, nostalgia is almost as unacceptable as racism.
- Down
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- Nov 07, 2020
Vancouver Mayor Gregor Robertson has been resorting to the 'It's racism' dodge for years now in order to shut down scrutiny of his determined inattention to the catastrophe of Vancouver's housing crisis.
- Nov 07, 2020
I've always said that the greatest racism in Hollywood has to do with what color ink you produce: Black or red.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the tragedies of the struggle against racism is that up to now there has been no national organization which could speak to the growing militancy of young black people in the urban ghetto.
- Institutions
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- Nov 07, 2020
Seems to me that the institutions that function in this country are clearly racist, and that they're built upon racism.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
We are concerned with that curious bunch of nonconformists who explain their participation in negative terms: that bunch of do-gooders that goes under all sorts of names - liberals, leftists, etc. These are the people who argue that they are not responsible for white racism and the country's 'inhumanity to the black man.'
- Care
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always felt the 'X-Men,' in a subtle way, often touched upon the subject of racism and inequality, and I believe that subject has come up in other titles, too. But we would never pound hard on the subject, which must be handled with care and intelligence.
- Okay
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's racism everywhere in the world; it's not just Sweden, it's everywhere, but other than that I had a pretty okay upbringing.
- School
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was the only white kid in my neighborhood for most of my youth even in high school, so reverse racism was just as apparent as racism.
- Getting
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- Nov 07, 2020
The thing is, getting rid of racism is a cultural thing that takes decades. It's not something we can solve immediately. Structural changes have to happen in our culture.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
To an extent I agree that the FA hasn't done that much to tackle the problem of racism, but it's hard to police racism for the FA. How do they police it? Unless someone makes people aware of what has happened within a stadium, the FA would never know that it is happening.
- Doctor
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- Nov 07, 2020
Racism is a disease. Go to your doctor with an ailment, and let the doctor tell you, 'Well, look, I'm not going to treat you; we're just not going to talk about it. It's going to go away.' You would look at him like he's crazy. By not talking about racism, it's not going to go away.
- Outside
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- Nov 07, 2020
Racism is if there are spectators or, outside the field of play, there are movements to discrimination, but, on the field of play, I deny that there is racism.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
Racism cannot be cured solely by attacking some of the results it produces, like discrimination in housing or in education.
- Lie
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- Nov 07, 2020
The roots of racism lie deep in man's nature, wounded and bruised by original sin.
- Race
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- Nov 07, 2020
In one sense, Obama's point couldn't be clearer: race is a distraction from class-based inequities. And if we dismiss working-class resentment as camouflaged racism, we will continue to be distracted by the spectre of race.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
Racism is an effect of slavery, not the other way around. Once slavery was abolished, not only did racism not disappear, neither did the economic system it upheld.
- Hate
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- Nov 07, 2020
Racism is a form of hate. We pass it on to our young people. When we do that, we are robbing children of their innocence.
- Place
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wanted to use my experience to teach kids that racism has no place in hearts and minds.
- Shame
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think racism is something that is passed on and taught to our kids, and that's a shame.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our babies know nothing about hate or racism. But soon they begin to learn - and only from us.
- Dangerous
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- Nov 07, 2020
Racism is a very insidious thing. It's dangerous to the psyche, to mind and body. It erodes the self-confidence. And I don't know how we get through it.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
The racism, the sexism, I never let it be my problem. It's their problem. If I see a door comin' my way, I'm knockin' it down. And if I can't knock down the door, I'm sliding through the window. I'll never let it stop me from what I wanna do.
- Equality
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- Nov 07, 2020
Racism is still with us. But it is up to us to prepare our children for what they have to meet, and, hopefully, we shall overcome.
- Meat
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- Nov 07, 2020
Mandy Sutter's 'Bush Meat' triumphs in its lean prose and true dialogue, in its disarming humour, in its evocation of a family divided by sexism and racism in 1960s Nigeria.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
Racism is a part of human nature, and you're not going to eradicate it; all you can do is try to keep it in check.
- Act
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- Nov 07, 2020
Racism exists everywhere. So when people act surprised about racism, I'm the one that's surprised.
- Prejudice
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- Nov 07, 2020
Mainstream dictionary definitions reduce racism to racial prejudice and the personal actions that result. But this definition does little to explain how racial hierarchies are consistently reproduced.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
While having friends of color is better than not having them, it doesn't change the overall system or prevent racism from surfacing in our relationships. The societal default is white superiority, and we are fed a steady diet of it 24/7. To not actively seek to interrupt racism is to internalize and accept it.
- Erupt
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- Nov 07, 2020
In aversive racism, the concept of racism is abhorrent to that person. But they're filled with racist conditioning and bias, as we all are. Because that conflicts with their identity as good people, they suppress it and are even more in denial about it. They are even more likely to erupt in defensiveness if it gets called out.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The most effective adaptation of racism over time is the idea that racism is conscious bias held by mean people.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
Until white people understand that racism is embedded in everything, including our consciousness and socialisation, then we cannot go forward.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up poor and white. While my class oppression has been relatively visible to me, my race privilege has not. In my efforts to uncover how race has shaped my life, I have gained deeper insight by placing race in the center of my analysis and asking how each of my other group locations have socialized me to collude with racism.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Racism has two primary functions: the oppression of people of color, which most people recognize, but also the simultaneous elevation of white people. You can't hold one group down without lifting the other up.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the most important misunderstandings for white people to get over to move forward is this idea that racism is a good-bad proposition - that if we're good we can't be part of it, that being uncomfortable means you're a terrible person. We have to let go of that and understand it as a system we all live in.
- Question
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- Nov 07, 2020
The question that white people need to ask ourselves is not if we were shaped by the forces of racism, but how.
- Group
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- Nov 07, 2020
While individual whites may be against racism, they still benefit from the distribution of resources controlled by their group.
- Nov 07, 2020
One cannot understand how racism functions in the U.S. today if one ignores group power relations.
- Focus
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- Nov 07, 2020
Although racism does, of course, occur in individual acts, these acts are part of a larger system that we all participate in. The focus on individual incidences prevents the analysis that is necessary in order to challenge this larger system.
- Collectively
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whites often respond defensively when linked to other whites as a group or 'accused' of collectively benefiting from racism, because as individuals, each white person is 'different' from any other white person and expects to be seen as such.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've certainly experienced racism, but it has not made a great impact on me. I have always thought, as I got older and older, I was more in charge of who I was. What someone thought about me or said about me made less of an impression on me at very vulnerable times.
- Hurt
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not trying to say that it never hurt or that I never felt its sting, but I can honestly say that I never blamed anybody for racism. I have considered it more of a manifestation of humanity's problem rather than my personal problem.
- Believe
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- Nov 07, 2020
Racism may be as systemic as it always was. It is the great problem of America. It's the one stumbling block that I don't believe was ever smoothed over.
- Health
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most Christian 'believers' tend to echo the cultural prejudices and worldviews of the dominant group in their country, with only a minority revealing any real transformation of attitudes or consciousness. It has been true of slavery and racism, classism and consumerism and issues of immigration and health care for the poor.
- Hypocrisy
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's a lot more hypocrisy than before. Racism has gone back underground.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
Race is such a contentious issue because of the painful history of racism. Race didn't create racism, but racism created race.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think some people feel that if you question the reality of race, you're questioning racism; you're saying racism isn't real. Racism is real because people actually believe race is real. We'd have to really let go of the 500-year-old idea of race as a worldview in order to undo racism.
- Needs
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- Nov 07, 2020
No one needs to be reminded of racism in soccer: the xenophobia, the nativism and, yes, nationalism.
- Nov 07, 2020
I realized there was racism because people thought, 'Oh, if you like roll 'n' roll, that makes you like a white kid.'
- Stupid
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- Nov 07, 2020
Racism is ignorant. And it's stupid. And it's old. And it's played out. So beat it already with that, you know what I mean? 'Let's all get along' - I'm so tired of that damn sentence, but it's true.
- Black Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
I got agitated at the idea that racism is a Southern thing. Did you hear about the cross-burning out here? A black family moved into an upper-middle-class Los Angeles suburb and found a cross burning on their lawn. Swastikas are being painted on synagogues. I'm moving to France. I don't think this 'kinder, gentler nation' bit is working too well.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Let me just say that to imagine racism does not exist is imagination. And to imagine that it does not create its own set of problems is true imagination. So let's not imagine that racism is gone, extinguished, because it's not. We are seeing this in the top levels of the political arena, and we are seeing it very, very plainly.
- Hate
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- Nov 07, 2020
All nationalism is based on racism and hate. I'm Scottish; I was born in Scotland, as my parents, as my grandparents.
- Memories
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up in the Deep South, where sexism, racism, and homophobia were and still are alive and well. I have early, early memories of words and actions of this type being very painful.
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
The First World War was a war devoid of any virtue. It arose from the quagmire of European tribalism: a complex interplay of nation-state destinies overlaid by notions of cultural superiority peppered with racism.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
Many of us believed that Black Lives Matter would move this country to not only reckon with white racism but to usher in new laws and practices that would curb vigilantism and law enforcement violence. But, instead, white nationalism was nurtured and began to take root among the American people.
- First Thing
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- Nov 07, 2020