“Sometimes change comes not in the first round, but at the second, third or fourth. Change starts with one person questioning, challenging, speaking up and doing something to make a difference. We can each make a difference...because each of us is already part of the community where racism exists & thrives.” FirstsPersonsSometimesCommunityChallengesDifferencesRacismThirdsRoundsMaking A DifferenceThriveFourthQuestioningSpeaking UpAnti Racism Author:Paul Kivel
“In a manner akin to the influence of Tiger Woods on the other side of the Atlantic, Thierry Henry has helped kick down a few of the remaining bigoted stereotypes. Through his undisputable class and dignity, Henry has made a deep-seated difference to race relations in this country. Racism will flounder whenever white children grow up with a black man as their hero. That so few comment on Henry's colour is a silent tribute to his impact.” MenChildrenMadeCountryGrowsSidesBlackDifferencesWhiteRaceClassGrowing UpInfluenceFootballHeroRacismDignityRelationImpactSilentWoodsSoccerAnalysisKicksColourCommentStereotypeTigersRace RelationsTribute Author:Pete Gill
“There's a difference between racism and "I don't know any better. I'm clueless." Racism is like, "I'm trying to make you feel bad." That's racism.” KnowsFeelsTryingDifferencesRacismClueless Author:Chris Rock
“Perhaps for the purposes of war racial differences had been buried, but certainly in no deep grave.” WarPurposeDifferencesRacismGravesBuried Author:Josephine Lawrence
“I've always been raised to love everyone, to accept everyone for their differences, and to just be open. But at a young, a very young age, I realized what racism was all about.” AgeYoungDifferencesAcceptingRacismRaisedI RealizedYoung AgeLove Everyone Author:Nia Long
“What surprises me is-even though discrimination against women and racial discrimination still exist, they have improved a lot, especially among artists. And just when I felt I could finally take a break, I encounter the age discrimination. I turned 72 and started noticing a drastic difference in people's attitudes. I started with racism and sexism in the beginning and fought them so hard and was finally ready to relax. Then, here comes ageism, and I feel like, "Give me a break!"” PeopleGivingFeelsStillsHardAgeArtistFeltDifferencesAttitudeBreakReadyRacismGive MeSurpriseDiscriminationEncountersRelaxSexismNoticingSurprise MeRacial DiscriminationDrasticAgeism Author:Yoko Ono
“Everybody's a racist. It's the one human trait that makes us all exactly the same. Deep down, we only like people who are exactly like us. And it doesn't matter. White. Black. Red. Yellow. Purple, uh oh, the purple people, are the worst. Man. All prejudiced and birth marky. But, we've got to learn to get past our differences. I learned that at the museum of tolerance. After my dad beat the crap out of a guy over a parking spot.” PeopleMenHumansMatterPastGuyBlackDifferencesWhiteWorstBirthDadBeatsRacismRedMy DadToleranceSpotsRacistMuseumsYellowTraitsCrapPurpleDeep DownParkingParking Spots Author:Christopher Titus
“For the master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house. They may allow us to temporarily beat him at his own game, but they will never enable us to bring about genuine change. Racism and homophobia are real conditions of all our lives in this place and time. I urge each one of us here to reach down into that deep place of knowledge inside herself and touch that terror and loathing of any difference that lives here. See whose face it wears. Then the personal as the political can begin to illuminate all our choices.” MayRealFacesPoliticalChoicesGamesHouseDifferencesOur LivesConditionsMastersBeatsRacismToolsTerrorGenuineUrgesHomophobiaLoathingOur ChoicesPlace And Time Author:Audre Lorde
“People have been killing because of racial differences since the time of Adam and Eve, but in this country racism has been primarily aimed at African Americans.” PeopleHas BeensCountryDifferencesBasketballRacismKillingAfrican AmericanAdamAdam And Eve Author:Bob Cousy
“Merely because I was black, it seemed, I was supposed to listen to Hugh Maskela instead of Carole King, just as I was expected to be a radical, not a conservative. I no longer cared to play that game ... The black people I knew came from different places and backgrounds - social, economic, even ethnic - yet the color of our skin was somehow supposed to make us identical in spite of our differences. I didn't buy it. Of course we had all experienced racism in one way or another, but that did not mean we had to think alike” PeopleThinkingWayMeanDifferentPlayCoursesGamesSocialBlackDifferencesEconomicColorKingsRacismSkinsConservativeExpectedBackgroundsOne WayRadicalSpiteBlack PeopleIdenticalDifferent Place Author:Clarence Thomas
“We are social beings who make communities with an urgency, and it is a stern charge to make us take refuge in the lonely world of oneself. ...Racism attempts to occlude our cosmopolitanism (of the songs in and out of our bones), and it often appropriates our mild forms of xenophobia into its own virulent project. Difference among peoples is something that we negotiate in our everyday interactions, asking questions and being better informed of our mutual realities. To transform difference into the body is an act of bad faith, a denial of our shared nakedness.” WorldBodyRealityFormSongSocialCommunityDifferencesProjectsRacismLonelyAskingEverydayOneselfBonesDenialMutualInteractionRefugeUrgencyAsking QuestionsXenophobiaCosmopolitanismSocial BeingLonely World Author:Vijay Prashad
“I cannot emphasize enough how wrongheaded this is. Withholding criticism and ignoring differences are racism in its purest form. Yet these cultural experts fail to notice that, through their anxious avoidance of criticizing non-Western countries, they trap the people who represent these cultures in a state of backwardness. The experts may have the best of intentions, but as we all know, the road to hell is paved with good intentions.” PeopleKnowsMayCountryStatesEnoughFormCultureDifferencesHellFailingRacismCriticismIntentionWesternExpertsCriticizeAnxiousTrapsAvoidanceGood IntentionsWithholding Author:Ayaan Hirsi Ali
“We dont know anything about racism. Weve never experienced it. If words can make a difference in your life for seven minutes, how would it affect you if you heard this every day of your life?” IfsKnowsDifferencesHeardMinutesRacismSevenMaking A DifferenceRacist Author:Jane Elliott
“Often their rage erupts because they believe that all ways of looking that highlight difference subvert the liberal belief in a universal subjectivity (we are all just people) that they think will make racism disappear. They have a deep emotional investment in the myth of sameness even as their actions reflect the primacy of whiteness as a sign informing who they are and how they think.” PeopleThinkingWayBelieveActionBeliefDifferencesEmotionalRacismUniversalInvestmentMythDisappearRageSubjectivityHighlightsSamenessWhitenessInformingPrimacyEmotional InvestmentDeep Emotional Book:Black Looks: Race and Representation Source: Black Looks: Race and Representation
“This film isn't about "white racism", or racism at all. DEAR WHITE PEOPLE is about identity. It's about the difference between how the mass culture responds to a person because of their race and who they understand themselves to truly be. And this societal conflict appears to be one that many share.” PeoplePersonsFilmCultureDifferencesWhiteRaceShareIdentityConflictMassRacismDearMass CultureWhite Racism Author:Justin Simien
“I have visited some places where the differences between black and white are not as profound as they used to be, but I think there is a new form of racism growing in Europe and that is focused on people who are Middle Eastern. I see it.” PeopleThinkingFormUsedBlackDifferencesWhiteGrowingMiddleRacismEuropeProfoundFocusedUsed To BeBlack And WhiteEastern Author:Montel Williams
“Others look different to us, because we are distant, the moment we get close to them, we'd discover that the differences are either inconsequential or an illusion altogether.” HumanityDifferencesHuman NatureDiversityRacismPrejudiceDiscriminationTogethernessSectarianismCultural Differences Book:Servitude is Sanctitude Source: Servitude is Sanctitude