“Americans love to talk about the Constitution and how it protects the rights of every citizen and promises freedom to every citizen, but it's also a country based on racism and they don't talk about that too much and every time there's a film which deals with it there's certain parts of the country that feel uncomfortable.” FeelsCountryFilmCertainDealsToo MuchRightsCitizensPromiseProtectRacismConstitutionUncomfortable Author:Denzel Washington
“I think racism is a bottom-line AIDS issue. And I think homophobia is a bottom-line AIDS issue, and sexism and class issues and all of this. I think that we are not going to solve the AIDS epidemic unless we deal with these issues, and vice versa.” ThinkingLinesDealsClassIssuesRacismBottomVicesSolveAidsSexismBottom LineVice VersaEpidemicsHomophobiaAids Epidemic Author:Ann Northrop
“There is a good deal of evidence that the United States is moving to the right, and that the main force behind the movement is a resurgence, in a new form, of racial prejudice.” StatesMovingFormForceUnitedDealsBehindsUnited StatesMovementRacismEvidencePrejudiceRacial PrejudiceResurgence Author:Shirley Chisholm
“One of the less dismaying aspects of race relations in the United States is that their improvement is not a matter of a few people having a great deal of courage. It is a matter of a great many people having just a little courage.” PeopleLittlesMatterStatesUnitedDealsRaceUnited StatesRacismAspectRelationImprovementGreat MenRace Relations Book:Color blind: a white woman looks at the Negro Source: Color blind: a white woman looks at the Negro
“I was never exposed to a great deal of racism, but the Chicago I grew up in was very, very segregated.” DealsGrewGrew UpRacismChicagoExposed Author:Don Cornelius
“Racism was just a tool to deal with frustration and pain and that people are in denial about the way we feel and desperately trying to control their environment the way their lives are. And ultimately their scapegoats aren't going to make them feel better, it's just going to increase hatred and the problem gets worse and worse.” PeopleWayFeelsTryingProblemPainDealsEnvironmentRacismToolsHatredIncreaseDenialFrustrationFeel BetterScapegoat Author:Matt Dillon
“When I moved to London in the 1990s, it had changed a great deal. Racism had become deeply uncool. But there has been a return of racism in the guise of "antiterrorism." People who look like myself are immediately suspect. I've become extremely self-conscious about going into crowded public places.” PeopleLooksHas BeensSelfDealsChangedReturnRacismConsciousMovedLondonSuspectsCrowdedSelf ConsciousGuiseUncool Author:Pankaj Mishra
“I believe it's our responsibility as citizens to get in there and not accept the constant failure of prisons to deal with racism, lack of privilege, and impoverishment - not accept any of that. Just get in there!” BelieveI BelieveDealsResponsibilityAcceptingCitizensRacismConstantPrisonPrivilege Author:Jimmy Santiago Baca
“I get that racism exists, but it's not a catalyst for my content. I don't need to talk about race to have material. My style of comedy is more self-deprecating. I think that makes me more relatable. When you deal with 'topics' - race, white versus black - you're not separating from the pack. You're doing what everybody else is doing.” ThinkingNeedsSelfBlackWhiteDealsRaceComedyStyleMaterialsRacismPacksTopicsVersusRelatableCatalystSeparatingSelf DeprecatingSelf Deprecating Humor Author:Kevin Hart
“The core of the culture is racism and how black men are viewed. They've always been demonized and seen as threats in our culture. Another holdover from slavery. We've got to deal with that core root of racism and demonization of the upbringing of black men. Black women are not exempt by any means.” MenMeanCultureBlackDealsRacismRootsSlaveryThreatCoreBlack WomenUpbringing Author:Marian Wright Edelman
“I just think racism is within each and every one of us. It's everyone's responsibility to figure out how they deal with this kind of obsolete instinct.” ThinkingKindDealsResponsibilityFiguresRacismInstinctObsolete Author:Jordan Peele
“I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.” PeopleReasonPainHateDealsGoneImagineEmotionalRacismForgivenessHatredI HateEncouragementHatedStubbornHate PeopleLove PainLove And PainI Hate PeopleNo HateBeing HatedLove Is PainEnding Racism Author:James A. Baldwin
“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.” IfsWorldHumansHeartKindPersonsWarWholeMomentsFallEvilWealthDealsGraceRightsCrimeChangedOffersDiseaseRacismHatredMiserySilentHungerHuman RightsSpreadDiscriminationCuresDenialAcknowledgeBordersPausesAirborne Author:Philip Yancey
“Violent, irrational, intolerant, allied to racism and tribalism and bigotry, invested in ignorance and hostile to free inquiry, contemptuous of women and coercive toward children: organized religion ought to have a great deal on its conscience.” ChildrenDealsIgnoranceOughtRacismConscienceViolentOrganizedBigotryIrrationalHostileInquiryOrganized ReligionTribalismContemptuousGod Is Not Great Book:God is Not Great Source: God is Not Great
“The problem is that white people see racism as conscious hate, when racism is bigger than that. Racism is a complex system of social and political levers and pulleys set up generations ago to continue working on the behalf of whites at other people's expense, whether whites know/like it or not. Racism is an insidious cultural disease. It is so insidious that it doesn't care if you are a white person who likes Black people; it's still going to find a way to infect how you deal with people who don't look like you.” PeopleIfsKnowsWayLooksPersonsStillsProblemCarePoliticalHateSocialBlackWhiteDealsGenerationsLike YouDiseaseRacismConsciousBiggerComplexesLikesExpensesBlack PeopleBehalfInsidiousLeversComplex SystemsPulleys Author:Scott Woods
“I am disappointed with America. And there can be no great disappointment where there is not great love. I am disappointed with our failure to deal positively and forthrightly with the triple evils of racism, economic exploitation, and militarism. We are presently moving down a dead-end road that can lead to national disaster. America has strayed to the far country of racism and militarism.” EndsCountryAmericaMovingEvilDealsEconomicRacismDisappointmentDisasterDisappointedExploitationPositivelyGreat LoveDead EndsMilitarismI Am Disappointed Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.