“If you live in the elite world of dance, you find yourself in a world rife with racism. Let's face it.” IfsWorldFacesRacismRacistFinding YourselfElites Author:Alvin Ailey
“We were made to believe / our faces betrayed us. / Our bodies were loud / with yellow / screaming flesh / needing to be silenced / behind barbed wire.” WorldBelieveMadeWarBodyFacesBehindsRacismFleshLoudWar Of The WorldsBigotryYellowWorld War IiWorld War IBetrayedWireBarbed Wire Book:We, the Dangerous: New and Selected Poems Source: We, the Dangerous: New and Selected Poems
“If you take racism away from certain people - I mean, vitriolic racism as well as the sort of social racist - if you take that away, they may have to face something really terrible, misery, self-misery, and deep pain about who they are.” PeopleIfsWellsMayMeanSelfPainFacesCertainSocialTerribleRacismMiseryRacistDeep Pain Author:Toni Morrison
“Unfortunately, the greater consciousness among Whites about Black equality has not carried over to the new victims of racism - Muslims and Immigrants. There is no racial enlightenment for these groups, which are huge. Millions of Muslims and an equal number of immigrants, who whether legal or illegal, face discrimination both legally from the government and extra-legally from White Americans - and sometimes Black and Hispanic Americans. The Democratic Presidential candidates are avoiding these issues in order to cultivate support among White Americans.” SometimesGovernmentFacesOrderBlackWhiteNumbersConsciousnessMillionsSupportIssuesGreaterGroupsHugeEqualRacismEnlightenmentVictimDemocraticDiscriminationPresidentialExtrasCandidatesImmigrantsIllegalAvoidingHispanicPresidential Candidate Author:Howard Zinn
“the only truth is face to face, the poem whose words become your mouth and dying in black and white we fight for what we love, not are” TruthFacesPoetryFightingBlackWhiteDyingPoetTruth IsRacismMouthsBlack And WhiteFace To Face Book:Odes Source: Odes
“We got to face some facts. That the masses are poor, that the masses belong to what you call the lower class, and when I talk about the masses, I'm talking about the white masses, I'm talking about the black masses, and the brown masses, and the yellow masses, too. We've got to face the fact that some people say you fight fire best with fire, but we say you put fire out best with water. We say you don't fight racism with racism. We're gonna fight racism with solidarity. We say you don't fight capitalism with no black capitalism; you fight capitalism with socialism.” PeopleFactsFacesFightingBlackWaterWhitePoorTalkingClassFireMassRacismCapitalismSocialismBrownYellowSolidarityLower Class Author:Fred Hampton
“It is not like the white Republican, the conservative, who clears it up for you and says, "I don't like you", to your face and then you know immediately he is an antagonist. Racism operates in a lot of ways, and so I live it every day.” KnowsWayFacesWhiteLike YouRepublicanRacismConservativeYour FaceAntagonistI Don't Like You Author:Bocafloja
“My grandmother though, began to prepare in her own neurotic - and I think psychotic - way to face racism. So she taught us to be racist, which is something I had to undo later when I got to Michigan, you know.” ThinkingKnowsWayFacesTaughtRacismGrandmotherRacistMy GrandmotherNeuroticTaught UsMichiganPsychotic Author:James Earl Jones
“When the media would call and want to interview me, I thought it was 'cause they really wanted to find out what I thought about things. I thought it was because they really wanted to find out who I am. That's not what they wanted. They already in their minds knew who I was and they didn't like it, and they wanted face-to-face opportunities to expose my defects and my problems and my racism and bigotry and all this.” WantMindProblemWantedFacesOpportunityCausesMediaRacismWho I AmInterviewsBigotryDefectsFace To Face Author:Rush Limbaugh
“We have to face up to systemic racism. We see it in jobs, we see it in education, we see it in housing. But let's be really clear; it's a big part of what we're facing in the criminal justice system.” BigsJobsFacesJusticeClearRacismCriminalsHousingJustice SystemCriminal JusticeCriminal Justice System Author:Hillary Clinton
“Abortion and racism are evil twins, born of the same lie. Where racism now hides its face in public, abortion is accomplishing the goals of which racism only once dreamed. Together, abortionists are destroying humanity at large and the black community in particular.” TogetherFacesLyingHumanityEvilGoalBlackBornCommunityParticularRacismAbortionDestroyingTwinsSetting GoalsBlack Community Author:Alveda King
“Racism oppresses its victims, but also binds the oppressors, who sear their consciences with more and more lies until they become prisoners of those lies. They cannot face the truth of human equality because it reveals the horror of the injustices they commit.” HumansFacesLyingHorrorRacismConscienceVictimInjusticeCommitPrisonerOppressorsFacing The TruthSearsHuman Equality Author:Alveda King
“I found there's a fairly blatant racism in America that's already there, and I don't think I noticed it when I lived here as a kid. But when I went back to South Africa, and then it's sort of thrust in your face, and then came back here - I just see it everywhere.” ThinkingKidsAmericaFacesFoundRacismSouthYour FaceSouth AfricaThrustRacism In America Author:Dave Matthews
“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
“If we accept and acquiesce in the face of discrimination, we accept the responsibility ourselves. We should, therefore, protest openly everything ... that smacks of discrimination or slander.” IfsShouldFacesPeaceBlackResponsibilityAcceptingRacismDiscriminationAfrican AmericanPatriotismProtestBlack HistoryDisobedienceRacism In AmericaSlanderCivil DisobedienceSmackBlack History MonthAfrican American WomenBlack History Month InspirationalBlack AmericaAfrican American HistoryAfrican American LoveAfrican American InspirationalAfrican American History MonthBlack RacismDiscrimination And Racism Author:Mary McLeod Bethune
“The international community cannot accept that whole communities are marginalized because of the color of their skin. People of African descent are among those most affected by racism. Too often, they face denial of basic rights such as access to quality health services and education. Such fundamental wrongs have a long and terrible history.” PeopleLongWholeFacesCommunityRaceQualityAcceptingRightsSocietyColorTerribleRacismSkinsFundamentalsInternationalAccessDenialAffectedDescentInternational CommunityMarginalizedHealth ServicesBasic Rights Author:Ban Ki-moon
“I mean, let's face it, it's 2000 and people are beginning to wake up on some level. I think that, as I was saying earlier, there's just no denying the impact that showing people the truth can have. It allows people to understand themselves, and when you understand yourself you can understand the people around you. And then you can begin to let go of all the bullshit that leads into things like world wars, racism, stereotypes, and bigotry.” PeopleThinkingWorldMeanWarFacesLevelsLetting GoRacismWake UpImpactWar Of The WorldsBigotryBullshitStereotype Author:Gale Harold
“I also have been called that terrible "N" word straight to my face and not known what to do about it because it was just in like 1993 that someone called me that.” Has BeensFacesBlackKnownTerribleRacismBlack Racism Author:Halle Berry
“We've got to face the fact that some people say you fight fire best with fire, but we say you put fire out best with water. We say you don't fight racism with racism. We're gonna fight racism with solidarity.” PeopleFactsFacesFightingWaterFireRacismSolidarityAnti RacismBlack Panther Party Author:Fred Hampton
“The truth is, no one wants to face the fact that there was a huge double standard in baseball, and white athletes like Mark McGwire, Cal Ripken Jr., and Brady Anderson were protected and coddled in a way that an outspoken Latino like me never would be. The light-eyed and white-skinned were declared household names. Canseco the Cuban was left out in the cold, where racism and double standards rule.” WayWantFactsLightWould BeFacesNamesLeftWhiteHugeColdTruth IsRacismStandardsBaseballMarkAthleteLike MeProtectedHouseholdLatinoCubanLeft OutDouble StandardOutspokenBradyCal Ripken Author:Jose Canseco
“Many white people experience themselves as powerless, even in the face of privilege. But the fact is that we all have a sphere of influence, some domain in which we exercise some level of power and control. The task for each of us, White and of color, is to identify what our own sphere of influence is (however large or small) and to consider how it might be used to interrupt the cycle of racism.” PeopleFactsMightFacesUsedJusticeWhiteLevelsInfluenceColorExerciseRacismTasksSocial JusticePrivilegeCyclesSpheresPowerlessDomainPower And ControlSphere Of Influence Author:Beverly Daniel Tatum
“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
“We must never remain silent in the face of bigotry. We must condemn those who seek to divide us. In all quarters and at all times, we must teach tolerance and denounce racism, anti-Semitism and all ethnic or religious bigotry wherever they exist as unacceptable evils. We have no place for haters in America -- none, whatsoever.” AmericaFacesEvilReligiousTeachPoliticianRacismSilentToleranceAll TimeBigotryDividesQuartersMean PeopleDividingAnti SemitismCondemningHaterAnti RacistReligious Bigotry Author:Ronald Reagan
“The first who attracts the eye, the first in enlightenment, in power and in happiness, is the white man, the European, man par excellence; below him appear the Negro and the Indian. These two unfortunate races have neither birth, nor face, nor language, nor mores in common; only their misfortunes look alike. Both occupy an equally inferior position in the country that they inhabit; both experience the effects of tyranny; and if their miseries are different, they can accuse the same author for them.” IfsMenFirstsLooksTwoDifferentCountryEyeFacesLanguageWhiteCommonRaceEffectsPositionBirthRacismEnlightenmentMiseryExcellenceTyrannyIndianMisfortunesUnfortunateInferiorsWhite Man Book:Democracy in America Source: Democracy in America
“Progress is our most important product, General Electric says, and I had progressed to the front door of hell when all I had actually been striving for was a quiet purgatory. And I did not find it strange that hell had a soft blue sky, a springlike air, music, dust, laughter, curses.” FacesRaceRacismDiscriminationAmerican DreamMelting PotInstitutional RacismDisenfranchisement Book:The Wig: A Mirror Image Source: The Wig: A Mirror Image