“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 was not one cause for our internment, but many - a deep-seated racial prejudice working on top of fear, distrust, and greed. So how is one to say exactly where history begins or ends? It is all slow oscillations, curves, and waves which take so long to reveal themselves ... like watching a tree grow.” LongEndsGrowsCausesHistoryTreeRacismPrejudiceGreedWaveDistrustCurvesRacial PrejudiceInternmentOscillation Book:Heart Mountain: A Novel Source: Heart Mountain: A Novel
“If trees can create art, if they can encircle the globe seven times in one year, if prisoners can grow plants and raise frogs, then perhaps there are other static entities that we hold inside ourselves, like grief, like addictions, like racism, that can also change.” IfsYearsArtGrowsGriefTreeRacismRaisesPlantSevenAddictionPrisonerEntityGlobesFrogsStatic Author:Nalini Nadkarni
“I see racism as a cancer. It is a cancer growing in us. Unless we stop it, it vegetates and grows bigger which hurts every one of us.” GrowsHurtGrowingRacismBiggerCancer Author:Pearl Tan
“When we look at that jingoism and the sexism and the racism and the homophobia, that's not who we are, and that's not the country that I want my daughter to grow up in.” WantLooksCountryGrowsGrowing UpRacismDaughterWho We AreMy DaughterSexismHomophobiaJingoism Author:Chelsea Clinton
“Symbolic racism is hurtful and it is especially hurtful to Black children who get called Black Pete in school and grow up with the sense that they are inferior to white kids.” ChildrenKidsSchoolGrowsBlackWhiteGrowing UpRacismInferiorsSymbolicHurtful Author:Roger Ross Williams
“I grow dizzy when I recall that the number of manufactured tanks seems to have been more important to me than the vanished victims of racism.” Has BeensImportantSeemsGrowsNumbersRacismVictimRacistRecallsTanksDizzy Author:Albert Speer
“Parents and schools should place great emphasis on the idea that it is all right to be different. Racism and all the other 'isms' grow from primitive tribalism, the instinctive hostility against those of another tribe, race, religion, nationality, class or whatever. You are a lucky child if your parents taught you to accept diversity.” IfsShouldChildrenIdeasDifferentSchoolGrowsParentRaceAcceptingClassTaughtLuckyDiversityRacismPrimitiveTribesEmphasisHostilityNationalityIsmsTribalismDifferent Nationalities Author:Roger Ebert