R Quotes
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“Racism as a form of skin worship, and as a sickness and a pathological anxiety for America, is so great, until the poor whites -- rather than fighting for jobs or education -- fight to remain pink and fight to remain white. And therefore they cannot see an alliance with people that they feel to be inherently inferior.”
“Racism built me into a person that was set up to be self-destructive.”
“Racism cannot be cured solely by attacking some of the results it produces, like discrimination in housing or in education.”
Source: Point of the lance
“Racism cannot be separated from capitalism.”
“RACISM CANNOT DISPEL INEQUALITY”
“Racism denies a human being his humanity.”
“Racism dies one funeral at a time.”
“Racism, discrimination, and hate have created a toxic society, Let’s put an end to this uncertainty, this global anxiety,
Let’s turn bitterness into a touch of sweetness, Let’s act before it’s too late,
Remember, blood is always red! Lyrics from the song BLOOD IS ALWAYS RED! Written by Lily Amis”
“Racism does not diminish with brains, it's a disease, a sickness, it may incubate in ignorance but it doesn't necessarily disappear with the gaining of wisdom!”
“Racism does not have a good track record. It's been tried out for a long time and you'd think by now we'd want to put an end to it instead of putting it under new management.”
“Racism does not limit itself to biology or economics or psychology or metaphysics; it attacks along many fronts and in many forms, deploying whatever is at hand, and even what is not, inventing when the need arises.”
Source: Racism
“Racism does not need to be fixed; it has to be stopped”.”
“Racism doesn't always manifest through hostility, but sometimes it manifests through being too nice out of fear.”
“Racism doesn't have to fit our stereotypes for what it is in order for it to hurt - but it also means that tools for dismantling the system don't have it fit our stereotype either.”
“Racism doesn't know color, death doesn't know age, and pain doesn't know might.”
Source: Maizon at Blue Hill
“Racism exists in the mind, not the heart.”
“Racism had grown out of slavery and exploitation and was very hard to eradicate quickly and completely.”
“Racism has always been able to come up with a scientific veneer.”
Source: Two Nations: Black and White, Separate, Hostile, Unequal
“Racism has been for everyone like a horrible, tragic car crash, and we've all been heavily sedated from it. If we don't come into consciousness of this tragedy, there's going to be a violent awakening we don't want. The question is, can we wake up?”
“Racism has permeated psychology and psychiatry from its genesis. Early clinicians came from white, European backgrounds, and used their culture's social norms as the basis for what being healthy looked like. It was a very narrow and oppressive definition, which assumed that being genteel, well-dressed, well-read, and white were the marks of humanity, and that anyone who deviated from that standard was not a person, but an animal in need of being tamed.”
Source: Unmasking Autism: Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity
“Racism has robbed the human race. It’s stolen all the beautiful life experiences that nature wanted to give to us. We have been deprived of experiencing each other's cultures and sincere love. And, it's very sad.”
“Racism, hate, and bigotry are EVIL and WICKED no matter how you try to rationalize it. I couldn’t imagine living my life with this crap in my heart. I love building new relationships and I enjoy learning about different cultures! If people would change their thinking and open up their hearts, they’d be amazed at the beautiful relationships that they could have. And, for the record, I couldn’t imagine ALL of my friends being black. There are too many amazing people from different backgrounds that I still have yet to meet. NO WAY would I limit my relationships based on race, absolutely not! I am free to like and love who I want to and I won’t allow anybody to persuade me with their opinions. I have my own mind! I’m my own person! I refuse to dislike and/or hate another race ‘just because!’ I am Stephanie Lahart: BOLD. BRAVE. STRONG.”
“Racism hates love: loving someone of another ethnicity is intolerable for them. Through racists' prism, since ethnic groups differ as much as animal species do, mixing their blood spoils the "ethnic perfection" of the master race. Therefore, racism forbids one of the fundamental rights of human beings: the freedom of to love, marry, and have children with whomever they want.
However, this is also not sufficient to satisfy racism. It forbids right of being loved either! Although being loved is not in loved one's own hands! Just as a Jew cannot love a German, neither can a Jew be loved by a German!
Yet, racism fears even children born from the love of different ethnicities. Because successful hybrid families and their gifted children are the strongest evidence of racism's betrayal of humanity. In order to prevent such "accidental" evidence, racism becomes so totalitarian, voyeuristic, immoral, and ugly that it decides on behalf of people to whom they may ejaculate sperm.
-To be tried as a Jew-”
“Racism hurts everyone, including racists themselves.”
“Racism in America absolutely exists - it is an issue. We need to fix it. We're a great country - probably the greatest country but we could be a hell of a lot greater.”
“Racism in our countries is a fact in that the indian is not allowed to be a politician or aspire to being head of state. It has reached the point that 99% of the indigenous women have not gone to school. The indigenous are condemned to live in a situation designed to exterminate them. They receive a pittance of a salary, they neither speak nor write the language, politics dictates their situation. Is this slavery? I don't know what it's called. It is not the same as before because we are in modern times.”
“Racism is a belief in the inherent superiority of one race over another.”
“Racism is a blight on the human conscience”
Source: Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations
“Racism is a blight on the human conscience. The idea that any people can be inferior to another, to the point where those who consider themselves superior define and treat the rest as subhuman, denies the humanity even of those who elevate themselves to the status of gods.”
Source: Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations
“Racism is a cancer that America does not want to cure.”
“Racism is a complex and interconnected system that adapts to challenges over time. Colorblind ideology was a very effective adaptation to the challenges of the Civil Rights Era. Colorblind ideology allows society to deny the reality of racism in the face of its persistence, while making it more difficult to challenge than when it was openly espoused.”
Source: What Does It Mean to Be White?: Developing White Racial Literacy
“Racism is a destructive and artificially-manufactured element in the collective human psyche designed to fragment the natural desire of human beings to know and love one another”
“Racism is a disease in society. We're all equal. I don't care what their colour is, or religion. Just as long as they're human beings they're my buddies.”
“Racism is a doctrine of, by and for brutes.”
Source: The Return of the Primitive: The Anti-Industrial Revolution
“Racism is a form of insanity. Human beings became racist when they started talking. Speech has a lot to do with it.”
“Racism is a global problem and it is as damaging to Whites as it is to non-Whites. Everyone must fight against it.”
“Racism is a grown-up disease and we must stop using our children to spread it.”
“Racism is a human problem and a crime that is absolutely so ghastly that a person who is fighting racism is well within his rights to fight against it by any means necessary until it is eliminated.”
“Racism is a kind of "extended" tribalism based on blood ties, it has nothing to do with merit.
-To Be Tried As A Jew-”
“Racism is a learned affliction and anything that is learned can be unlearned”
“Racism is a mental disorder.”
“Racism is a mental disorder, and should have been classified as such ages ago.”
“Racism is a mental disorder. This is an undeniable fact.”
“Racism is a moral catastrophe, most graphically seen in the prison industrial complex and targeted police surveillance in black and brown ghettos rendered invisible in public discourse.”
“Racism is a much more clandestine, much more hidden kind of phenomenon, but at the same time it's perhaps far more terrible than it's ever been.”
“Racism is a phenomenal thing; it is like a thick mist that obscures the vision and judgement of even great minds.”
“Racism is a philosophy based on a contempt for life. It is the arrogant assertion that one race is the center of value and object of devotion, before which other races must kneel in submission. It is the absurd dogma that one race is responsible for all the progress of history and alone can assure the progress of the future. Racism is total estrangement. It separates not only bodies, but minds and spirits. Inevitably it descends to inflicting spiritual or physical homicide upon the out-group.”
Source: Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?
“Racism is a problem. Violence is a problem. Sexism is a problem. You know what's NOT a problem? The brain. Use it.”
“Racism is a refuge for the ignorant. It seeks to divide and to destroy. It is the enemy of freedom, and deserves to be met head-on and stamped out.”
“Racism is a stubborn whitehead on the face of society.”