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“We learn to be racist, therefore we can learn not to be racist. Racism is not genetical. It has everything to do with power.”

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Jane Elliott

Jane Elliott, born on May 27, 1933, is an American teacher. She is known for conducting an educational activity called the 'Blue Eyes/Brown Eyes Experiment' in the 1970s, which aimed to demonstrate the impact of racial prejudice to students. more

“We are still conditioning people in this country and, indeed, all over the globe to the myth of white superiority. We are constantly being told that we don't have racism in this country anymore, but most of the people who are saying that are white. White people think it isn't happening because it isn't happening to them.”

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Author:Jane Elliott

“If we talk about the environment, for example, we have to talk about environmental racism - about the fact that kids in South Central Los Angeles have a third of the lung capacity of kids in Santa Monica.”

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Author:Danny Glover

“We talk of regional conflicts, of economic and social crises, of political instability, of abuses of human rights, of racism, religious intolerance, inequalities between rich and poor, hunger, over-population, under-development and. I could go on and on. Each and every one of these impediments to humanity's pursuit of well-being are also among the root causes of refugee problems.”

“If whites would vote their economic interests, not their racial fears, we the people who have the most need for change have the power to bring about that change nonviolently.”

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Author:Jesse Jackson

“The United States of America is a nation where people are not united because of those three glaring frailties: racism, injustices and inequities.”

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Author:Yuri Kochiyama

“Joblessness is a weapon of mass destruction. Poverty is a weapon of mass destruction. Hunger is a weapon of mass destruction. Poor health care is a weapon of mass destruction. Poor education is a weapon of mass destruction. Discrimination is a weapon of mass destruction. Let us abolish such weapons of mass destruction here at home.”

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Author:Dennis Kucinich

“I hate racial discrimination most intensely and all its manifestations. I have fought all my life; I fight now, and will do so until the end of my days. Even although I now happen to be tried by one, whose opinion I hold in high esteem, I detest most violently the set-up that surrounds me here. It makes me feel that I am a Black man in a White man's court. This should not be I should feel perfectly at ease and at home with the assurance that I am being tried by a fellow South African, who does not regard me as an inferior, entitled to a special type of justice.”

Source: We Accuse: The Trial of Nelson Mandela

“An intensive human rights education for all communities needs to be provided to overcome the old prejudices.”

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Author:Ruth Manorama

“We have to build things that we want to see accomplished, in life and in our country, based on our own personal experiences ... to make sure that others ... do not have to suffer the same discrimination.”

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Author:Patsy Mink

“Affirmative action is the most important modern anti-discrimination technique ever instituted in the United States. It is the one tool that has had a demonstrable effect on discrimination. No one who knows anything about the subject would say it hasn't worked. It has certainly done something, or else it wouldn't have provoked so much opposition.”

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