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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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- Nov 07, 2020
You cannot appease fascism by meeting it in the middle; you cannot beat racism by indulging or excusing it.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Anytime you're saying that a person will be thinking one way or another or biased one way or another just based upon race, I just think it's certainly going to be subject to that criticism of racism.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The fact that hardly anyone is ever prepared to admit to racist behaviour is perhaps a sort of strength: it speaks to the fact that racism is socially inadmissible.
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- Nov 07, 2020
If the truth be told, we are a society that is dripping in racism. This is not in the least surprising. For the best part of two centuries, we British ruled the waves, controlled two-fifths of the planet, and believed it was our responsibility to bring civilisation to those who allegedly lacked it.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Racism always exists cheek by jowl with, inside, and alongside culture and class. As a rule, it is inseparable from them. That is why, for example, food, language and names assume such importance in racial prejudice.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think many people understand what racism is. The intellectuals use it like toilet paper; it's something they can use. It's not something they live.
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I wasn't famous, I had a lot of friends, almost all of them Italian. The racism only started when I started to play football.
- Facts
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- Nov 07, 2020
A lot of times, when you have a story of minorities in America, it's always this super, oppositional thing. It's segregation, it's the racism, and those are the hard facts of the story.
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- Nov 07, 2020