- First Thing
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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
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
Trump is literally the epitome of evil, all the evils of this country - be it racism, capitalism, sexism, homophobia.
- Decision
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- Nov 07, 2020
My answer to those who oppose my appointment as CEO is that this is really a decision of the YWCA. They want to strengthen their grassroots to advocate on behalf of women's and children's empowerment and ending racism.
- Mission
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want to reach young women and to get them involved in the mission of the YWCA, economic empowerment of women and girls, and ending racism.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
Antiblack racism is not only happening in the United States. It's actually happening all across the globe.
- Disaster
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- Nov 07, 2020
Trump's racism has clearly driven his policy decisions during his first year in office - from his Muslim ban and his despicable treatment of DREAMers to his ruthless ramp-up of immigration raids and the callous termination of protections for Haitians and Salvadorans who fled natural disaster and violence.
- Black
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- Nov 07, 2020
Anti-black racism operates at a society-wide level and colludes in a seamless web of policies, practices, and beliefs to oppress and disempower black communities.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Far from ending, systemic racism reinvents itself to conform to what is publically acceptable, leaving the quality of black life diminished and more permanently fixed with each passing decade.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
To me and to a number of other activists from the U.S., we believe that the human rights movement has to evolve and understand the global implications of structural racism. This means engaging the United Nations and a variety of other human rights bodies.
- Denial
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- Nov 07, 2020
We were in denial about the extent to which Britain had cured itself of the poison of racism.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
If trees can create art, if they can encircle the globe seven times in one year, if prisoners can grow plants and raise frogs, then perhaps there are other static entities that we hold inside ourselves, like grief, like addictions, like racism, that can also change.
- Black And White
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have visited some places where the differences between black and white are not as profound as they used to be, but I think there is a new form of racism growing in Europe and that is focused on people who are Middle Eastern. I see it.
- Hate
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- Nov 07, 2020