R Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with R. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Racism is a system of power and in the absence of power you cannot be considered a racist.”
“Racism is a virus which can only be spread by us!”
Source: Another Tribe
“Racism is a virus. And since nobody's really looking too hard for a cure it reproduces itself over and over again.”
Source: And Do Remember Me
“Racism is a visual pathology.”
“Racism is a way to gain economic advantage at the expense of others. Slavery and plantations may be gone, but racism still allows us to regard those who may keep us from financial gain as less than equals.”
“Racism is a worldwide problem.”
“racism is alive and doing too well in America.”
Source: Conversations: Straight Talk with America's Sister President
“Racism is all over the world but the justice is nowhere”
“Racism is always there underneath, but usually it is exploited in these times of economic crisis, and it's hard to find out when one slides into another.”
“Racism is America's greatest disease, racism is a disease of the white man.”
“Racism is an attack on the very notion of the universality of human rights. It systematically denies certain people the enjoyment of their full human rights because of their colour, race, ethnicity, descent or national origin.”
“Racism is an effect of slavery, not the other way around. Once slavery was abolished, not only did racism not disappear, neither did the economic system it upheld.”
“Racism is an ism to which everyone in the world today is exposed; for or against, we must take sides. And the history of the future will differ according to the decision which we make.”
Source: Race: Science and Politics
“Racism is beyond common sense and has no place in our society.”
“Racism is cruel and unjust. It cuts deep and lingers long in individual and community memories. And it is not a thing of the past....We all have a duty to do what we can to turn this around.”
“Racism is dead only to those who've closed their eyes and ears to the whole world around them.”
“Racism is definitely in the eye of the beholder. White people have at hand the privilege of choosing whether to see or not see the racism that takes place around them. If Dr. Fitzgerald could not ‘fathom’ my reality as a black person, how would he be able to assess or address the rage, the fear and the host of other complex emotions that go hand-in-hand with being black in a racist society? For whatever reasons, seeing a black therapist had never crossed my mind, until then.”
Source: Willow Weep for Me: A Black Woman's Journey Through Depression
“Racism is devious. It creeps into your thinking and then creeps into your language and like any other habit, it’s hard to break.” From Celebrity Racist Rants, in The Kindle Book Controversy,”
“Racism is enticed and promoted by those who refuse to acknowledge its existence.”
“Racism is essentially natural, it's old fashioned it's an evolutionary phase that we're going through. Ultimately it wont exist.”
“Racism is exclusion, that's why I make fun of everybody.”
“Racism is if there are spectators or, outside the field of play, there are movements to discrimination, but, on the field of play, I deny that there is racism.”
“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.”
“Racism is just one of several illnesses passed on to children by their parents.”
“Racism is kinda old. For real.”
“Racism is legal murder.”
“Racism is like a wildfire that will never die out. The only way for it to die out is for it to be smoother with love.”
Source: Why Are You Obsessed with My Race?
“Racism is like a wound that keeps festering until it eats up your entire inside.”
“Racism is like high blood pressure—the person who has it doesn’t know he has it until he drops over with a God damned stroke. There are no symptoms of racism. The victim of racism is in a much better position to tell you whether or not you’re a racist than you are.”
“Racism is man's gravest threat to man - the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason.”
Source: Insecurity of Freedom
“Racism is more than words; Racism in itself is an action.”
“Racism is no longer tolerated as normal, Islamophobia is no longer tolerated as normal, Homophobia is no longer tolerated as normal, Chauvinism is no longer tolerated as normal, Colonialism is no longer tolerated as normal - believe you me, this is the most human humanity have ever been in our 200,000 years long history.”
Source: The God Sonnets: Naskar Art of Theology
“Racism is no mere American phenomenon. Its vicious grasp knows no geographical boundaries. In fact, racism and its perennial ally—economic exploitation—provide the key to understanding most of the international complications of this generation.”
Source: Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?
“Racism is not a crime. It's a mental disorder that causes people, mostly Caucasians, to commit crimes.
#RacismIsAMentalIllness #RacismIsAMentalDisorder”
“Racism is not a skin problem. It is a sin problem." ~ Dr. MaryAnn Diorio”
“Racism is not a skin problem; it is a sin problem." ~ MaryAnn Diorio”
“Racism is not about hate, but the ability to control.”
“Racism is not about hurtful words, bruised feelings, political correctness, or refusing to call short people 'vertically challenged.' Racism is about the power to treat entire groups of people as something less than human—for the benefit of that power. That’s why a Native American sports mascot is far from harmless.”
“Racism is not an excuse to not do the best you can.”
“Racism is not dead, but it is on life support -- kept alive by politicians, race hustlers and people who get a sense of superiority by denouncing others as 'racists'”
“Racism is not dead. Definitely, there are these biases.”
“Racism is not funny, because it won't solve anything, but making it worst instead, because racism is the reason the world is no longer great.”
“Racism is not merely a simplistic hatred. It is, more often, broad sympathy toward some and broader skepticism toward others.”
Source: We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy
“Racism is not nearly as important as poverty. That's the same around the world. What look like ethnic problems are really economic issues. If you look closely at all these conflicts around the world, they come down to poverty and economics and resources. The more poverty, the worse the war.”
“Racism is not on rise today, it just started to get socially viral...”
“Racism is not real, it's made up, it's cruel, it can be stopped.”
“Racism is not simply about one man's irrational hatred of another but his self-hatred, doubting his own moral goodness and purpose.”
Source: Once Upon A Lie
“Racism is not the exclusive attribute of young nations where sometimes it hides beneath the rivalries of clans and political parties, with heavy losses for justice and at the risk of civil wars. It is still an obstacle to collaboration and a cause of division and hatred within countries whenever individuals and families see the inviolable rights of the human person held in scorn as they themselves are unjustly subjected to a regime of discrimination because of their race or their color.”
Source: On the Development of Peoples: Populorum Progressio
“Racism is nothing more than ignorance, we are in the dessert together at one time in our lives, we got segregated by peoples beliefs of what was true of what we have to have and don't have to have so for me it is all about education.”
“Racism is one of the most common results of the combination of stupidity and the ability to see.”