- Discrimination
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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
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
Trump enabled, allowed, peddled to, and promoted the worst in America - racism, division, discrimination, misogyny - during his campaign. I will never forget or forgive him for that.
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- Nov 07, 2020
What I find most deplorable is cruelty of spirit - racism, casteism, and religious or social prejudice.
- Face
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- Nov 07, 2020
Racism oppresses its victims, but also binds the oppressors, who sear their consciences with more and more lies until they become prisoners of those lies. They cannot face the truth of human equality because it reveals the horror of the injustices they commit.
- Nov 07, 2020
Racism tears down your insides so that no matter what you achieve, you're not quite up to snuff.
- Belief
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- Nov 07, 2020
Like Hipster Racism, Hipster Sexism is a distancing gesture, a belief that, simply by applying quotations, uncool, questionable, and even offensive material about women can be alchemically transformed.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
The reality is that race in the United States operates on a spectrum from black to white. Doesn't mean that people who are in between don't experience racism, but it means that the closer you are to white on that spectrum, the better off you are. And the closer to black that you are on that spectrum, the worse off your are.
- Political
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think race and racism is probably the most studied social, economic, and political phenomenon in this country, but it's also the least understood.
- Fight
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- Nov 07, 2020
Black Lives Matter was created as a response to state violence and anti-black racism and a call to action for those who want to fight it and build a world where black lives do, in fact, matter.
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- Nov 07, 2020