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“I grew up in the Deep South, where sexism, racism, and homophobia were and still are alive and well. I have early, early memories of words and actions of this type being very painful.”

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Author:Pauley Perrette

“Sometimes we say we want an end to hate or racism or sexism. But we all participate in keeping these structures alive. If everyone decided to relinquish the past what would happen to people who feel that there hasn't been proper atonement made to them? And what happens to the person who feels that the constant atonement is their identity?”

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Author:Chris Abani

“racism is alive and doing too well in America.”

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Book:Conversations: Straight Talk with America's Sister President

Source: Conversations: Straight Talk with America's Sister President

“It's so hard for me to even acknowledge America without talking about race. If you look at our society, if you look at the prisons, if you look at the poverty and which side of the line the majority of people are, we have to acknowledge how we divide ourselves up, that there's racism alive in this country. And it's not in the law. It's in our minds. And that's what we have to actively battle.”

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Author:Dave Matthews

“In this world we live in, racism is alive and well in all venues. We immediately categorize people, and that's just not right.”

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Author:Leigh Anne Tuohy

“What I've always said is that I'm opposed to institutional racism, and I would've, had I've been alive at the time, I think, had the courage to march with Martin Luther King to overturn institutional racism, and I see no place in our society for institutional racism.”

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Author:Rand Paul

“Each and every one of us is born with a clean heart. Our babies know nothing about hate or racism. But soon they begin to learn – and only from us. We keep racism alive. We pass it on to our children. We owe it to our children to help them keep their clean start.”

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Author:Ruby Bridges

“Racism is still alive they just be concealing it”

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Author:Kanye West

“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'”

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Author:Thomas Sowell