- Health
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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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- 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