- Need
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- Nov 07, 2020
Racism Quotes
Honest reflections on bias and prejudice.
One quote here describes an uncomfortable, secondhand kind of racism, standing among friends when a remark slips out that would never be said at a family gathering. Another distills the issue to its root, arguing that any belief in one group's superiority over another leads directly to racism.
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- Poverty
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'd like to change the world. Eradicate poverty, racism, and sexism... all the usual things.
- Fight
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have two evils to fight, capitalism and racism. We must destroy both racism and capitalism.
- Gun
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- Nov 07, 2020
The policemen or soldiers are only a gun in the establishments hand. They make the racist secure in his racism.
- Moment
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- Nov 07, 2020
We always talk about how, obviously, there is still very in-your-face aggressive racism. But there's a lot of passive racism that, in the moment, you don't even realize is racist. You chalk it up as a strange interaction you had, and then you look at the context of it later on and realize the root of it was racism.
- Living
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- Nov 07, 2020
Racism seduces us with its desire to categorize, shutting out the living and breathing and 'different' world all around us.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
People sometimes hold themselves back because they want to use racism as an excuse for them not being able to achieve what they want to achieve.
- Myth
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's an ideology that's taken hold of universities, that has taken hold of elite establishments, that is committed to the myth of endemic white racism.
- May
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- Nov 07, 2020
Although slavery may have been abolished, the crippling poison of racism still persists, and the struggle still continues.
- Others
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's still racism. Western Europe... has taken the native cultures of the Americas, the African cultures, the Asian civilization and lumped them together into The Others.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother is an African-American from the South Side of Chicago who married a white guy in 1978. She was hyperaware of racism and made me aware of that.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
I mean, what is racism? Racism is a projection of our own fears onto another person. What is sexism? It's our own vulnerability about our potency and masculinity projected as our need to subjugate another person, you know? Fascism, the same thing: People are trying to untidy our state, so I legislate as a way of controlling my environment.
- Fight
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- Nov 07, 2020
We're going to fight racism not with racism, but we're going to fight with solidarity. We say we're not going to fight capitalism with black capitalism, but we're going to fight it with socialism.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020