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“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.”

World Today Sides Decision History Racism Racist Exposed World Today Isms Against Racism

Book:Race: Science and Politics

Source: Race: Science and Politics

“There's a lot more hypocrisy than before. Racism has gone back underground.”

Gone Racism Hypocrisy

Author:Richard Pryor

“Yeah, I love being famous. It's almost like being white, y'know?”

Knows Humor Funny White Comedy Fame Racism Yeah Being Famous Race In America

Author:Chris Rock

“Most Christian 'believers' tend to echo the cultural prejudices and worldviews of the dominant group in their country, with only a minority revealing any real transformation of attitudes or consciousness. It has been true of slavery and racism, classism and consumerism and issues of immigration and health care for the poor.”

“Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd.”

Religion Fear Produce Members Racism Instinct Tolerance Discrimination Collectives Mentality Herds Fear Not Xenophobia Natural Instinct Ferocity Herd Mentality Tolerance And Respect Ignorance And Fear

Book:The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell

Source: The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell

“You don't fight racism with racism, the best way to fight racism is with solidarity.”

Way Fighting Racism Best Way Racist Brotherhood Solidarity Racism In America Anti Racism Institutional Racism Anti Racist Black Panther

Author:Bobby Seale

“My dad worked two jobs and moved us to the suburbs, and just being a black person, I went through a lot of racism and being called names and being bullied every single day. And it was hard. I didn't have any friends.”

Persons Two Hard Jobs Names Black Dad Racism Moved My Dad Just Being Suburbs Bullied Black Person Being Bullied Two Jobs

Author:Sherri Shepherd

“Christian virtues unite men. Racism separates them.”

Men Christian Virtue Racism Racist

Author:Sargent Shriver

“We must treat the disease of racism. This means we must understand the disease.”

Mean Disease Racism Treats Racist

Author:Sargent Shriver

“Racism cannot be cured solely by attacking some of the results it produces, like discrimination in housing or in education.”

Results Education Produce Racism Discrimination Racist Housing Attacking

Book:Point of the lance

Source: Point of the lance

“Jazz is a white term to define black people. My music is black classical music.”

People Black Term White Music Music Is Racism Jazz Black People Classical Music Jazz Music Classic Music

Author:Nina Simone

“No matter what vision one has of South Africa, the first thing that must be done is to destroy racism.”

Firsts Matter Done Vision Racism No Matter What South Racist South Africa

Author:Joe Slovo

“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?”

Ifs Want Has Beens Consciousness Car Racism Tragedy Wake Up Awakening Violent Horrible Tragic Crash Car Crash

Author:Anna Deavere Smith

“The word 'racism' is like ketchup. It can be put on practically anything - and demanding evidence makes you a 'racist.'”

Racism Evidence Conservative Racist Ketchup

Author:Thomas Sowell

“Most middle-class whites have no idea what it feels like to be subjected to police who are routinely suspicious, rude, belligerent, and brutal.”

Feels Ideas Class Middle Racism Police No Idea Middle Class Brutal Rude Law Enforcement Suspicious Policemen

Author:Benjamin Spock

“Work is valued by the social value of the worker.”

Values Social Racism Workers Reconstruction Social Values

Book:Moving Beyond Words: Essays on Age, Rage, Sex, Power, Money, Muscles: Breaking the Boundaries of Gender

Source: Moving Beyond Words: Essays on Age, Rage, Sex, Power, Money, Muscles: Breaking the Boundaries of Gender

“How I wish we lived in a time when laws were not necessary to safeguard us from discrimination.”

Law Time Wish Racism Discrimination Anti Discrimination

Author:Barbra Streisand

“Those who wish to cause religious conflict are small in number but often manage to dominate the headline.”

Wish Causes Religious Numbers Conflict Racism Manage Headlines Religious Conflict

Author:Tony Blair

“Using the power you derive from the discovery of the truth about racism in South Africa, you will help us to remake our part of the world into a corner of the globe on which all - of which all of humanity can be proud.”

World Helping Truth Humanity Proud Racism Discovery South Corners Racist South Africa Globes Be Proud Remakes

Author:Oliver Tambo

“Violence and racism are bad. Whenever they occur they are to be condemned and we should not turn a blind eye to them.”

Should Eye Turns Acting Violence Racism Blind Racist Blind Eyes

Author:Cate Blanchett

“If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.”

“Racism, xenophobia and unfair discrimination have spawned slavery, when human beings have bought and sold and owned and branded fellow human beings as if they were so many beasts of burden.”

Ifs Humans Human Beings Racism Fellows Slavery Burden Discrimination Beast Unfair Xenophobia Branded Beast Of Burden

Book:God Is Not A Christian

Source: God Is Not A Christian

“For goodness sake, will they hear, will white people hear what we are trying to say? Please, all we are asking you to do is to recognize that we are humans, too.”

People Trying Humans White Please Goodness Racism Asking Sake

Author:Desmond Tutu

“In the land of my birth I cannot vote, whereas a young person of eighteen can vote. And why? Because he or she possesses that wonderful biological attribute - a white skin.”

Persons Young White Wonderful Land Birth Racism Skins Vote Attributes Umpires Eighteen White Skin

Author:Desmond Tutu

“I came back from university thinking I knew all about politics and racism, not knowing my dad had been one of the youngest-serving Labour councillors in the town and had refused to work in South Africa years ago because of the situation there. And he's never mentioned it - you just find out. That's a real man to me. A sleeping lion.”

Thinking Men Years Real Sleep Situation Knowing Dad Racism Years Ago Towns South University My Dad Labour Serving Lions South Africa Not Knowing Real Men Councillors

Author:Johnny Vegas

“The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line.”

Problem Lines Century Color Racism Social Justice Twentieth Century Racism In America Black Racism Race And Color

Author:W. E. B. Du Bois

“Our true nationality is mankind.”

People Life Humans Humanity Politics Nations Mankind Racism Unity Nationalism Brotherhood Humankind Solidarity Nationality Unity In Diversity One Nation Under God Trueness

Book:The Outline of History: The Roman Empire to the Great War

Source: The Outline of History: The Roman Empire to the Great War

“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.”

Black Moral Racism Police Prison Complexes Invisible Brown Discourse Catastrophe Surveillance Ghetto Public Discourse

Author:Cornel West

“All collective judgments are wrong. Only racists make them. No human race is superior; no religious faith is inferior.”

Humans Faith Religious Race Judgment Racism Superiors Human Race Collectives Racist Holocaust Inferiors Religious Faith Anti Racism Anti Racist

Author:Elie Wiesel

“I was literally the black sheep of the family, and there were definitely moments of discomfort while my grandmother was working through her racism.”

Moments Black Racism Grandmother Racist Sheep My Grandmother Discomfort Black Sheep Black Sheep Of The Family

Author:Lisa Bonet

“Excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism.”

“I was raised to believe that excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism. And that's how I operate my life.”

“The different ness of races, moreover, is no evidence of superiority or of inferiority. This merely indicates that each race has certain gifts which the others do not possess.”

Different Certain Race Racism Evidence Superiority Inferiority

Author:Carter G. Woodson

“I think we've made tremendous progress on racism. We've even made progress on war. We've made almost no progress on poverty.”

Thinking Made War Poverty Progress Racism

Author:Andrew Young

“I came into this whole business by going to see Rock Against Racism gigs with the Clash.”

Whole Rocks Racism Racist Gigs Clash Against Racism

Author:Billy Bragg

“We must rapidly begin the shift from a "thing-oriented" society to a "person-oriented" society. When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, materialism, and militarism are incapable of being conquered.”

“Jeremy Clarkson is rather charming, but I can't stomach his public persona. I don't like his casual racism and casual misogyny.”

I Can Racism Stomach Charming Misogyny Casual Persona

Author:Jo Brand

“Mozart, Pascal, Boolean algebra, Shakespeare, parliamentary government, baroque churches, Newton, the emancipation of women, Kant, Balanchine ballets, et al. don’t redeem what this particular civilization has wrought upon the world. The white race is the cancer of human history.”

“I have a dream that one day little black boys and girls will be holding hands with little white boys and girls.”

Littles Dream Hands Girl Black White Boys One Day Racism Race Relations Boy And Girl Holding Hands Anti Racism Black Racism Black Boy White Racism

Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.

“...racist thought and action says far more about the person they come from than the person they are directed at.”

Persons Action Racism Racist Thoughts And Actions Racism And Prejudice

Author:Chris Crutcher

“The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully.”

Source: The God Delusion

“It’s just like when you’ve got some coffee that’s too black, which means it’s too strong. What you do? You integrate it with cream; you make it weak. If you pour too much cream in, you won’t even know you ever had coffee. It used to be hot, it becomes cool. It used to be strong, it becomes weak. It used to wake you up, now it’ll put you to sleep.”

Ifs Knows Mean Political Used Strong Black Sleep Too Much Racism Weak Hot Coffee Used To Be Cream Multiculturalism Black History Integrating Grassroots Wakes You

Author:Malcolm X

“The horror of class stratification, racism, and prejudice is that some people begin to believe that the security of their families and communities depends on the oppression of others, that for some to have good lives there must be others whose lives are truncated and brutal.”

People Believe Community Class Security Depends Horror Racism Prejudice Oppression Good Life Brutal Racism And Prejudice

Book:Skin: Talking About Sex, Class, and Literature

Source: Skin: Talking About Sex, Class, and Literature

“..And the same rapper who revels in a woman's finely proportioned behind may also speak against racism and on behalf of the poor, even as he encourages them not to look at hip-hop as their salvation.”

Looks May Speak Poor Behinds Racism Salvation Hip Hop Hips Hops Rapper Behalf Against Racism

Book:Is Bill Cosby Right?: Or Has the Black Middle Class Lost Its Mind?.

Source: Is Bill Cosby Right?: Or Has the Black Middle Class Lost Its Mind?.

“Politics deals with externals: borders, wealth, crimes. Authentic forgiveness deals with the evil in a persons heart, something for which politics has no cure. Virulent evil (racism, ethnic hatred) spreads through society like an airborne disease, one cough infects a whole busload. When moments of grace do occur, the world must pause, fall silent, and acknowledge that indeed forgiveness offers a kind of cure. There will be no escape from wars, from hunger, from misery, from rancid discrimination, from denial of human rights, if our hearts aren't changed.”

“It was obvious that bigotry was never a one-way operation, that hatred bred hatred!”

Way Racism Hatred Obvious One Way Operations Bigotry

Book:Pebble in the Sky

Source: Pebble in the Sky

“I wish I could say that racism and prejudice were only distant memories... We must dissent from the indifference. We must dissent from the apathy. We must dissent from the fear, the hatred and the mistrust... We must dissent because America can do better, because America has no choice but to do better.”

America Choices Wish Can Do Memories Powerful Racism Hatred Prejudice Social Justice Indifference Apathy Dissent Mistrust Racism And Prejudice

Author:Thurgood Marshall

“If my theory of relativity is proven successful, Germany will claim me as a German and France will declare me a citizen of the world. Should my theory prove untrue, France will say that I am a German, and Germany will declare that I am a Jew.”

“No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.”

“You never cede control of your own ability to be successful to something called racism.”

Ability Successful Racism Being Successful

Author:Condoleezza Rice

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