“Speak out, educate, do not be intimidated by the apologists, and do not let extreme racism be mainstreamed. Hopefully there will come a time when we don't need to tell our kids that Halloween is no excuse for hate, and that blackface has no place in a civilized society.” NeedsKidsHateSpeakCommunityLeadershipJusticeHuman NatureEqualRacismEthicsHuman RightsExcuseExtremesIdeologyHopefullyCivilizedEducateHalloweenEqual RightsCivilityIntimidatedNo ExcusesSpeaks OutCivilized SocietyBlackface Author:Christine Pelosi
“I grew up in a very loving middle class family. My parents were educators. I'm not even the first PhD in my family. They tried to shield me, just as other parents in my neighborhood tried to shield their children. But you knew there was a reason that you couldn't go to that theme park or to a movie theater or to a hamburger stand. They couldn't shield you completely. What they did though was they never let it be an excuse for not achieving, and they always said racism is somebody else's problem, not yours. They tried in that way not to make us bitter about Birmingham.” WayFirstsChildrenSaidReasonProblemParentClassMiddleAchieveGrewGrew UpRacismMy FamilyTheaterExcuseBitterParksThemeMiddle ClassNeighborhoodShieldsEducatorHamburgersMovie TheaterBirminghamPhdsMiddle Class FamilyTheme Parks Author:Condoleezza Rice
“People sometimes hold themselves back because they want to use racism as an excuse for them not being able to achieve what they want to achieve.” PeopleWantSometimesUseAbleAchieveRacismExcuse Author:Herman Cain
“I resolutely believe that respect for diversity is a fundamental pillar in the eradication of racism, xenophobia and intolerance. There is no excuse for evading the responsibility of finding the most suitable path toward the elimination of any expression of discrimination against indigenous peoples.” BelieveResponsibilityPathExpressionDiversityFindingsRacismRespectFundamentalsExcuseToleranceDiscriminationBrotherhoodIntoleranceIndigenousSuitablePillarsNo ExcusesXenophobiaEliminationUnity In DiversityIndigenous PeopleAnti RacismAnti DiscriminationDiscrimination And RacismEnding RacismAgainst Racism Author:Rigoberta Menchu
“Racism is not an excuse to not do the best you can.” BlackRacismExcuseAfrican AmericanDo The BestBlack HistoryBlack History MonthAfrican American WomenBlack History Month InspirationalAfrican American HistoryAfrican American LoveAfrican American InspirationalAfrican American History MonthBlack RacismEthnic Identity Author:Arthur Ashe
“If homosexuality being inborn is what makes it acceptable, why does racism being inborn not make racism acceptable? … We are born that way. We don’t choose it. So shouldn’t it be acceptable, excuse - this is according to the way the left thinks about things.” IfsThinkingWayDoeLeftBornRacismExcuseAcceptableHomosexuality Author:Rush Limbaugh
“Well, because the Arabs who were involved in 9/11 cooperated with the Zionists, actually. It was a cooperation. They gave them the perfect excuse to denounce all Arabs. It's a racist sort of thing, really racist - you know, picking out these 19 or 20 terrorists - they were terrorists - and saying all the Arabs are like them.” KnowsWellsPerfectInvolvedRacismExcuseTerroristRacistCooperationZionist Author:James Abourezk
“The Scriptures have been misused to defend bloody crusades and inquisitions; to support slavery, apartheid, and segregation; to sanction the physical and emotional abuse of women and children; to persecute Jews and other non-Christian people of faith; to support the holocaust of Hitler's Third Reich; to oppose medical science; to condemn inter-racial marriage; to execute women as witches; to excuse the violent racism of the Ku Klux Klan; to mobilize militias, white supremacy and neo-nazi movements; and to condone intolerance and discrimination against sexual minorities.” PeopleChildrenHas BeensChristianWhiteSupportMovementEmotionalGayRacismThirdsAbuseSlaveryJewExcuseMedicalScriptureViolentDiscriminationMinoritiesWitchHolocaustIntoleranceBloodyNaziWhite SupremacyEmotional AbuseSegregationSanctionsApartheidSupremacyCrusadesMilitiaInquisitionKu Klux KlanMisusedMedical Science Author:Mel White
“Let it [racism] be a problem to someone else... Let it drag them down. Don't use it as an excuse for your own shortcomings.” MenUseProblemBlackRacismExcuseUpliftingDragShortcomings Author:Colin Powell
“I think the Negro people should feel secure enough by now to face a reasonable ridicule without terror. I am unalterably opposed to all efforts to put down free speech, whatever the excuse.” PeopleThinkingFeelsShouldEnoughFacesPoliticalEffortSpeechRacismTerrorExcuseSecureReasonableFree SpeechRidicule Author:H. L. Mencken