- Men
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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.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Emotional
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- Nov 07, 2020
Preparing oneself for the possibility of confronting racism triggers something that slowly chips away at physical and emotional well-being.
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- Nov 07, 2020
People were nicer to me when I was in the arts. I experienced extreme racism in small-town New Zealand. Racism which really went away when I got into the arts.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The book, 'Citizen,' begins with daily encounters, little moments, places where language reveals how racism determines how we interact.
- Nov 07, 2020
There is no racism in Italy.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think that there are some people on the so-called Left who might say we have to circle our wagons around the first African American president, and to me that is racism in reverse because his policies are actually still the racist policies of empire.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every now and then I'm in a situation where someone doesn't recognize me, and I experience racism. Things like not being buzzed into a store or sitting in first class on a plane and having someone ask to see my ticket four times.
- Nov 07, 2020
I think racism is unacceptable and should not be stood for. It is not an issue just in Italy, it is around the world.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think the history of western feminism is one that is fraught with racism, and I think it's important to acknowledge that and, at the same time, to say that feminism is not the western invention, that my great-grandmother in what is now south-western Nigeria is feminist.
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's much easier to talk about racism when you're able to use mutants as a metaphor. People would much rather talk about Charles Xavier and Magneto than they would about Martin Luther King or Malcolm X.
- School
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- Nov 07, 2020
I went to an all white school where I dealt with racism.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Colorism and racism don't stop when you're a musician or when you have wealth or when you're in any given position.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
The problem is that my generation was pacified into believing that racism existed only in our history books.
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- Nov 07, 2020